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Best Practices for Keyboarding Instruction
As keyboarding teachers, we all know the benefits of touch typing and want to pass on these benefits to our young learners. An individual who...
6 Early Learner Typing Games for Elementary Students
Designed for Elementary aged learners, ABCya.com has some great typing games and activities for early learners just getting to know the keyboard. ...
Composing at the Keyboard
Purpose: To help students compose original documents that require critical thinking skills and reinforce touch type practice and proper keyboardi...
Touch Typing and the 21st Century
The ability to touch type with speed and accuracy is a critical skill in today's computer-based society. As the US Department of Labor noted, “i...
Blackout
PURPOSE: Students will test their key-by-touch mastery by gradually eliminating keys on the keyboard that they have learned. Students will ident...
Song Lyrics
Objective: To provide students with a break from the monotony of keyboarding textbook drills.
Procedure: Sometimes it can be monotonous for s...
Fun, Quick Keyboarding Activities
Sometimes a fun, quick activity can help shake-up and add energy to the keyboarding classroom. These are just a few ideas you might want to try....
Hide and Seek
PURPOSE: Test student’s knowledge of the alpha and numeric key placement and identify keys that need additional review.
PROCEDURE: As a class, a...
History of the QWERTY Keyboard
Have you ever wondered how it all began in the world of keyboarding? Check out this short video about the history of QWERTY keyboards.
This link ...
Typing Boggle
Purpose: Practice touch typing with newly learned keys by typing as many word combinations as you can from the letters provided.
Procedure: Ch...
5 Fast and Furious Racing Games
We know there are too many keyboarding games and resources out there, and many of them aren’t worth your time. So we’ve handpicked "Five Fast and...
Keeping Devices Sanitized During COVID
While cleaning is the removal of visible foreign matter from a surface, disinfecting is the actual killing of the bacteria and viruses on a surfac...