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Jingle & Type - North Pole Job Application

by Amy Ewell December 01, 2023

Exciting job opportunities at the North Pole in Santa's Toy Workshop are now open! Santa is searching for creative and detail-oriented keyboarding students to contribute to the magic of Christmas, and he needs YOU to create a HELP WANTED ad to find the most qualified employees.

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Mystery Monster Mash-Up: Halloween Keyboarding Activity

by Amy Ewell October 30, 2023

Get ready to ignite your students' creativity with a Halloween Keyboarding activity! They'll start by typing the beginning of their own spooky stories, then trade seats with peers to keep the narratives going. This activity promotes typing skills, teamwork, and imaginative storytelling. Students wrap up by crafting a conclusion, and a few brave souls share their stories with the class, earning Halloween treats. A perfect blend of fun and skill-building in the spirit of Halloween!

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Trick or Treat Typing Activity

by Amy Ewell October 23, 2023

Skeletons, ghosts, mummies, and more! Help your students have a fun and skill building Happy Halloween! This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by typing a Halloween poem, one stanza at a time.

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Typing Basketball--Team Competition

by Shauna Whittekiend August 30, 2023

Purpose: This activity is intended to foster friendly competition between classmates by adapting the game of basketball to motivate students t...

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Valentine's Day Keyboarding Activity

by Shauna Whittekiend February 11, 2023

Purpose: This is a great activity to do on or around Valentine’s Day. It will give students practice in composing sentences and apply their touc...

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Inspired Writing in the Keyboarding Classroom

by Shauna Whittekiend January 23, 2023

Purpose: As keyboarding teachers, we know it’s sometimes nice to take a break and step away from the online keyboarding program we may be using in...

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Teaching Students how to Calculate WPM

by Shauna Whittekiend October 27, 2022

It’s nice that online typing programs and typing tests used in today’s keyboarding classrooms will automatically calculate students WPM. But, it’...

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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 Tools to Incorporate Coding into Keyboarding Practice

by Shauna Whittekiend March 31, 2022

Two Birds, One Stone! Combining Keyboarding and Coding Practice With so much emphasis being placed on computer science and STEM courses in schools...

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Frequently Used Word Lists

by Shauna Whittekiend February 08, 2022

Common Words for Keyboarding Practice While there are over 600,000 words in the English language, less than 20 different words make up 25 pe...

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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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