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Here is a link for a keyboard pumpkin
http://ww2.midwayisd.org/etrip/Oct/k.../kbpumpkin.htm

Jeanette - I just saw this e-mail from you. This is exactly what I am looking for. Did you ever put any of these into a book? I would love to use some!

Originally Posted by jlhawkinson

I have approximately 35 of these with instructions - well I will have when I finish typing all the instructions. I believe I have about 17 left to type up.

Also for those that I didn't have instructions for, I printed them and counted all the spaces/characters to create instructions.

Question for some of you - What type of copyright issues would I face if I wanted to create a book/cd with as many of these as I can? I would most definitely give credit to those that I have as authors, but some of them I am unsure about.

Thanks!
Jeanette

I, too, have been searching all over for these"patterns" as I teach keyboarding. Would LOVE to have any patterns that others are willing to share and/or trade project ideas, etc. or a small fee.
Please email me: championsleeper@yahoo.com
Thanks!

I am a long term sub in a hs keyboarding class. Please send some typing pictures to me and any ideas of what to do to keep them busy for a 90 minute block!!! aafmom@hotmail.com

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am looking for an activity that I remember from my days in Jr. high school. Our typing teacher would give us a sheet of instructions for typing rows of letters, symbols and spaces, that when finished would yield a complete picture. The effect was similar to the drawing technique of pointillism. I have tried to do a web search, and have found nothing like this. Does anyone else remember these and know of a resource?

I too remember these 'typing pictures' but have, myself no luck finding them on the internet, they were great fun weren't they. I am going to try my local library!

[LoneStar]

Ah. I have these in my files. I taught typing on a typewriter for years.

They won't work well unless you have a typewriter. The old ones -- the ones that most kids won't even recognize (and most teachers won't either).

They work because each character uses a set space, or pitch per inch. Pica equaled 10 characters per inch, Elite was 12. No matter what character you typed, they all took up the same space on the paper. Computers don't do that. They're more like the old IBM Executive typewriters that use proportional spacing. A capital W uses more width than a capital I. So these types of puzzles have fallen by the wayside. Many of these puzzles incorporated the use of the open or closed parentheses and the asterisks to make snowmen and other holiday-oriented pictures.

Try J. Weston Walch Publishers. They were a publisher of lots of games and activities such as these. Very difficult to do on a computer, though, unless you have it set in a sans serif font at the same point size. Maybe someone has figured out a way to do it, but I can tell you from experience teaching it: it wasn't easy to get all of the kids to understand how to set the whole thing up and get it to actually look like something when they were done.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am looking for an activity that I remember from my days in Jr. high school. Our typing teacher would give us a sheet of instructions for typing rows of letters, symbols and spaces, that when finished would yield a complete picture. The effect was similar to the drawing technique of pointillism. I have tried to do a web search, and have found nothing like this. Does anyone else remember these and know of a resource?

i just found your question.. The thing you are talking about is called ASCII

this is actually an art from..People have gone super crazy with it..They have a class on line.. Can you believe it rofl.. for this,., I love to do this and think it is fun when you are super tired but can;t sleep.. this sort of doesn't help .. rofl.. but I like it alot.,. here is one ummm....
http://www.geocities.com/soho/7373/index.html#home

This has a lot of them.. they found this type of art is even better on colored backgrounds.. such as black or blue extra.. the colors are to blah on white and do not pop...

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