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3 Online Keyboarding Programs Students Will Choose
Teaching kids keyboarding isn’t about finding the perfect online website or downloaded software and setting students lose on a year-long self-directed journey of progressive lessons hoping their speed and accuracy improves. That might work for adults, but it’s a prescription for boredom and failure with K-8 students. They require a mixture of activities, only one […]
A Conversation about Keyboarding, Methods, Pedagogy, and More
Dr. Bill Morgan and I have engaged in several months of spirited conversation about keyboarding, pre-keyboarding, and how it can best serve students. Bill is the brilliant creator of PreKeys.org and the giant floor keyboard for classrooms. His experience teaching keyboarding often informs me in my art as I adapt to the ever-changing needs of […]
Dear Otto: How do I Make Keyboarding Collaborative?
Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please contact me at askatechteacher at gmail dot com and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from a reader: I am […]
Weekend Websites: 25 Keyboarding Websites
If summer is when your children are absolutely positively going to catch up on keyboarding, here’s a list of 32 keyboarding websites for all ages (be sure to view the full post–I have a free poster for you): ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level Alphabet rain game Barracuda game Big Brown Bear Bubbles game Dance Mat Typing Finger […]
Dear Otto: How do I teach keyboarding in a 25-minute class?
Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please complete the form below and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from Brenda: I’ve been teaching 5th grade for 8 […]
Dear Otto: How do I teach keyboarding in a 25-minute class?
Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please complete the form below and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names. Here’s a great question I got from Brenda: I’ve been teaching 5th grade for 8 […]
32 Keyboarding Websites for Summer
Did you promise that this summer, your child would learn to type with more than two fingers, keep his eyes off his hands, and learn to like keyboarding? Your teachers consider that important–Common Core requires students type between 1-3 pages at a sitting without giving up from boredom, frustration, fatigue. To do that requires a […]
Weekend Website #127: Brown Bear Typing
Every week, I share a website that inspired my students. Here’s one that I’ve found effective in… Here’s a great website to answer that question.
Weekend Website #127: Brown Bear Typing
Every week, I share a website that inspired my students. Here’s one that I’ve found effective in… Here’s a great website to answer that question.
Keyboarding
Updated 8-23-19 If you’re worrying about preparing students for online assessments, here are a wide variety of resources that teach keyboarding–from games to drills to everything in between: ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level Alphabet rain game Alpha Quick–how quickly can a student type the alphabet? Barracuda game Big Brown Bear Bubbles game Digipuzzles–6 keyboarding practice games for […]
Keyboarding Websites
Please click here for updates ABCYa–Keyboard challenge—grade level Alphabet rain game Barracuda game Big Brown Bear Bubbles game Dance Mat Typing Finger jig practice game Free typing tutor GoodTyping.com Keyboard lessons—16—video, etc Keyboard practice—quick start Keyboarding practice Keyboarding resources listed Keyboarding—games Keyboarding—lessons Keyboarding—more lessons Keyboarding—must sign up, but free Keyboarding—quick start Keyboarding—speed quiz Keybr–Online […]
20 Best Keyboarding Websites
The most common questions I get from parents and readers of my blog are about keyboarding. What is the best software? What are good online sites? How long should kids practice? When should children start typing in earnest? In this column, I’ll only deal with the second–what are good online websites. I’ve kept track of […]
4 FREE Online Keyboarding Programs for K, 1
Many of the programs I recommended in my post Time to Start Keyboarding required nominal reading–maybe more than new readers in kindergarten and first grade can accomplish. Since then, several friends have told me about some sites they use with their beginning keyboarders that they’ve had great results with. I thought I’d share: Key Seeker […]
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