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Touch Typing Challenge: Thinking While Typing

by Shauna Whittekiend September 27, 2022

Each exercise challenges students to “think while typing”--provide the missing vowels, insert the missing words, delete the repeated words, untangle words, provide capital letters, etc. to the copy.

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4 Quick Drills for Touch Typing Reinforcement

by Shauna Whittekiend August 23, 2022

Objective: To improve typing speed by using quick and short bursts of finger energy. Procedure: Print and distribute one or more of the follo...

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5 Best Keyboards and Covers for Learning to Type

by Kelly Seale May 25, 2022

A strong keyboarding skill is arguably the best technical skill you can acquire in today’s digital era. To establish keyboard mastery, it’s important to equip yourself with the right tools for a successful outcome. You will need:

A specialized keyboard or typing cover that will prevent you from looking at your fingers while typing.

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5 Tools to Incorporate Coding into Keyboarding Practice

by Shauna Whittekiend March 31, 2022

Two Birds, One Stone! With so much emphasis being placed on computer science and STEM courses in schools, it makes sense that today’s students w...

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Frequently Used Word Lists

by Shauna Whittekiend February 08, 2022

While there are over 600,000 words in the English language, less than 20 different words make up 25 percent of the words we read, and there ar...

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3 Thanksgiving Typing Activities

by Shauna Whittekiend November 17, 2021

The KeyMaster Keyboarding Team has compiled three Thanksgiving typing activities for your keyboarding classrooms. Each activity should take one class period or less. You could choose to spread these activities out over a few days or allow your students to complete whichever activity interests them most.

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