An important part of running a successful business is to have productive employees. This requires you as a business owner to make sure that your employees are well trained for the tasks they need to complete and are healthy and happy. The following are the top 3 activities that encourage productivity: Promote Training and Learning Encourage Breaks Team Building Activities Training and Learning Promotion The top way to ensure that you have a productive workforce is to make sure that they are properly trained for the job at hand. This, however, is not only to ensure that the individuals who work for you are capable of a job well done but also to encourage their personal growth as overall individuals. Different training and skills development activities can show your employees that you are interested in their personal development as well as they are on the job training. Many of these types of activities will teach several life skills as well as job training. A knowledgeable employee is generally happier and healthier as they tend to feel more accomplished and helpful to their peers. The reason this is the top activity is because of all of the positive byproducts that are received from well trained and skillful employees. This is a sure-fire way to grow and improve your business. Encourage Breaks The number two activity to ensure a more productive workforce is to encourage your employees to take breaks. This does not simply mean that they should just stop working for…
Typesy in Focus: Real-Time Changes
The real-time changes made to Typesy have been shown to greatly improve the overall experience for students and administrators on the site. the ability to see your results in real-time as students is a great motivator. The ability of instructors to make real-time changes has also shown to help the entire class. Motivation and efficiency seem to be the two most important results of the real-time changes updates on the site. the motivation factor has mainly displayed by students being able to see their status on the site in real-time. This allows them to track their progress and try to improve. There are many incentives in the assignment and games on the site that encourage students to improve their status. One of the key changes is the ability for students to customize their personal avatar based on their status. This is a driving factor in increased engagement on the site. Being able to see where they stand in real-time is a great incentive for students to improve. This also helps teachers see which students need more instruction. Both the teacher and the student having this information is extremely helpful. There is a great value in a student knowing where they stand on their own as opposed to the teacher simply revealing their standing to them. this also frees up the teacher to skip the revelation of progress and what that entails and go straight into assisting the particular student with improving their skills. The real-time changes have done a lot…
Are Games a Great Way to Learn Typing?
If you need to learn how to type, or how to type faster, there are some games that will help to practice typing much more interesting than repeatedly typing “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog”. Whether you are teaching a young child how to type for the first time, or you are an adult who has yet to master the skill, here are a few reasons playing some games online could be a great way to master how to type: Games Let You Have Fun! Fun means you are more likely to stick with something and not give up on it after a short period of time! It takes a long time and a lot of practice to master any skill, and playing games along the way will help keep your brain engaged and keep your interest while you are typing. Everyone would rather be typing to beat a clock or an opponent instead of just typing the same phrase over and over and over again. That would get boring after a while! Your Coordination Will Improve Once you understand the concepts behind typing, where the keys are laid out, how to use the Function keys, the numeric keypad, etc., it is all about mastering your hand-eye coordination. Playing typing games will help with that. To be clear, we are not talking about playing another round of Call of Duty. There are specific games designed to help improve typing and they will also improve hand-eye coordination. Games…
Keyboard Turned Into A Cool Accessory
Create your own statement piece with the things you can find at home. Have an extra keyboard? Watch this video on how you can turn it into a cool accessory. Not only does it enhances your artistic side, but it also contributes to society through recycling. Original post by Boy Geeks Girl
Hide Your Valuables In A Keyboard
If ever you keep on misplacing or losing valuables, a keyboard is a good idea to hide it. No one will suspect you placed something there and you will never forget it too especially if you often use computers. This video will show you how to do it. Original post by kipkay
Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash Typing with all fingers is going to help you be a faster and more accurate typist than if you typed by hunt and peck using only one or two fingers. You will be able to type without looking at the keyboard and focusing on your task at hand, which is going to make you more efficient. Here are the ways in which typing effectively with all fingers is better than using just one or two fingers: Efficiency If you have to constantly look at your hands while you are typing, you cannot also be looking at a document, a book, or talking to someone that is dictating their needs to you. If you are able to use all your fingers to type, then you can act as a scribe for someone that is talking, or look at a book or different computer monitor to merge and bring different documents together. If you are not looking at your hands while you are typing, you will be more efficient. Speed It is usually just a simple matter of mathematics. Typing with 10 fingers is going to be quicker than typing with 1 finger. When using the traditional Words Per Minute metric, people typing with all 10 fingers versus just one or two are exponentially faster than if you just hunt and peck and use one or two fingers. You will be able to type more Words Per Minute using 10 fingers than by hunting and pecking….
Creativity At Its Finest Using a Keyboard
Have a broken or spare keyboard? Don’t throw it! This video will show how you can upcycle old keyboard and make it into a beautiful masterpiece. Original post by Geeky McFangirl
Brilliant Hacks You Can Do At Home
This post provides plenty of much needed easy work hacks ranging from DIY iPhone speakers to how to use a sticky note to clean your keyboard, or better yet, stop it from overheating by letting it stand on an egg carton and get back to typing. 1) Clean earphone jack using a tape and paper clip. 2) Have a phone speaker using plastic cups and toilet paper tubes. 3) Organize cables using binder clips as well. 4) Create a phone stand with paper clips. 5) Have a handy ruler by taking a photo of it with an accurate measure. 6) Strengthen cords using a pen spring. 7) Arrange cords using cardboard tubes. 8) Use 3M hooks to hang IPad and small TV screens. 9) Use an empty egg carton as a stand to avoid a laptop overheat. 10) You can design your keyboards using Washi tapes.
Great Problems Caused by Typos
Photo by Norwood Themes on Unsplash We’ve all accidentally sent an email with an embarrassing typo or let autocorrect completely change the meaning of a text message. But the consequences of these mistakes are usually minor at most. However, when you are responsible for billions of dollars or a top-tier government agency, typos can have disastrous effects. Here are 7 of the most catastrophic typos in history: 1870: Spinach’s iron content gets a boost. Everyone knows that spinach is loaded with iron, right? Well, it turns out we might be overestimating its nutritional power. A German researcher in 1870 misplaced a decimal point and sent the iron content of spinach skyrocketing. Despite the error being corrected in 1937, the misperception persists. The character of Popeye was even created based on this myth. 1872: The United States Government loses $40 million. To help fund the Civil War, the administration of Ulysses S. Grant decided to place taxes on certain agricultural imports. The Secretary of the Treasury planned to make “fruit-plants, tropical and semi-tropical, for the purpose of propagation or cultivation” exempt from this new tax. However, when the language was written down, a clerk replaced the first hyphen with a comma. Thus, all fruits and plants suddenly became tax-exempt and it cost the government two million dollars (equivalent to $40 million today). 1962: A misplaced hyphen costs NASA $80 million. On July 22, 1962, NASA launched the Mariner 1 rocket to do a fly-by of Venus. Unfortunately, a mistake in coding…
In this video, Alex Choi sheds a light on how not a lot of people think to clean their keyboard. For the best touch typing possible, consider cleaning your keyboard semi-regularly and don’t worry about typing on dirty keys. Original post at Buzzfeed Youtube Channel