Keyboarding 101
These keys are known as the "home row" keys.
What is 'ASDFJKL;' ?
This part of the computer lets you click and select things.
What is the mouse?
What is drag-and-drop?
This key is used to erase letter or characters.
What is the backspace key?
What finger do you use to strike the space bar key?
What is the thumb?
This important part of the computer saves all of your information.
What is a hard drive?
A web address starts with these three letters: WWW. What does WWW stand for?
What is World Wide Web?
What do you call the small arrow or hand that moves your mouse?
What is the cursor?
What do we call the action of using your mouse to select specific text?
What is highlighting?
While typing, where should your eyes be looking?
What is the screen?
This part of the computer shows you everything, like a TV screen.
What is the monitor?
This lets you go online. Examples would be Google Chrome, Safari or Firefox.
What is the web browser?
This is a small picture on your computer that you click to open a program.
What is an icon?
What do we press when we need to reload a webpage?
What is the refresh button?
What key do you use to make a letter uppercase?
What is the shift key?
What part of the computer is used to listen to sounds like music or videos?
What are speakers?
This is where you go when you want to research information. Examples are Google, Yahoo, Bing.
What is a search engine?
All of your program icons appear on this part of the computer when you first log in.
What is the desktop?
What do we call a message that appears on your screen to inform you about something?
What is a notification?
What key do you press to move the cursor to the next line when typing?
What do the letter CPU stand for?
What is the Central Processing Unit?
This is a global network connecting millions of computers worldwide.
What is the internet?
This port is often used to plug in devices to your computer like cameras, phones or a mouse.
What is an USB port?
What do we call the process of finding and fixing errors in a computer program?
What is debugging?