System and method for teaching pre-keyboarding and keyboarding

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11749130
APP PUB NO 20200118457A1
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16704927

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The present invention is directed to systems and related methods of teaching pre-keyboarding and keyboarding on a QWERTY-style keyboard wherein a color-coded row-based metaphorical and visual cuing system is used in a curriculum to make foundational keyboarding skills easy-to-teach and easy-to-learn, including: unilateral hand/finger skills, Home Row hand/finger positions, relational position of symbol location, and the essential keystroke spectrum of Home Row positioning-based finger movements of the left and right hand. The invention provides a dynamic virtual keyboard with colored rows which hexfurcates the QWERTY layout into left- and right-handed row sections, independently toggling the visibility of each in a developmental order to teach keyboarding skills in incremental steps rather than all at once. The invention further provides a dynamic cursor that uses visual indicators that mirror the visual cuing system to reinforce instruction with the dynamic virtual keyboard and aid keyboarding accuracy.

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NO TEARS LEARNING INC8001 MACARTHUR BOULEVARD CABIN JOHN MD 20818

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Isaac, Hank Cabin John, US 3 4
Knapton, Emily Cabin John, US 8 30
Olsen, Eric Cabin John, US 50 1246
Olsen, Janice Z Cabin John, US 9 31
Sklarew, Ralph Cabin John, US 11 623
Walnock, Robert Cabin John, US 3 4

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