It sounds easy, but to a five or six year old, holding the mouse, clicking that left button, dragging and dropping while holding a finger down is darn difficult. I found four programs that will make it painless:
Mousing Around–learn clicks, multiple clicks. Don’t be surprised when the kids start shouting out animal names.
Bees and Honey–shorter, but concentrates on clicks and dragging-dropping
Tidy the classroom while learning clicks, double-clicks (difficult for youngers) and drag-and-drop
Mouse Program–for olders who can read, but a thorough exercise of the mouse skills
These are very good sites to teach fine motor skills and mouse technique. I would have children put this into practice with some simple web games such as the ones at http://avenscorner.com.
Thanks for sharing this site with us. Looks very interesting.
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Reblogged this on The Digital Literacy Vine and commented:
Hello all:
Just clicking around to see what other bloggers were sharing regarding digital literacy and I came across this post. Thanks to Jacqui Murray for this post1 :-)
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hi,
I lead a class of seniors in learning to use computer (Windows)
We were using a game called Stacker and Fishing on a site called
Mrs campbell’s Mouserobics. Recently most of these games
now are redirected to a junior disney website which does not include these games.
I would eal like to get this particular games for our students as they balnce the
need for mouse skills without being to childish for seniors.
Here’s a site I came across that has mouse exercises for seniors–http://www.seniornet.org/howto/mouseexercises/mousepractice.html. I’ll see if I can find some others.
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Dear acqui,
Thank you . I will definitely use these exerrcises. They are just right. However I still liked the “Staker” and the “Fish” Games on Mrs campbells moserobics website. I was able to use them up until maybe October. lasy year. Do you understan whhy it now defaults to a Junior Disney website?
ot how to get hold of Stacker and Fish?
Yours Aye, (Scots for Always)
Angus A Glass
Hi Angus
This website–http://www.alline.org/euro/games/mouse.html–has a lot of choices and several start with ‘fish’. See if it has what you’re looking for.