Looking for high interest online keyboarding activities for students to work on at home? Educators in MCPS and throughout the country have contributed an online list of online keyboarding activities: Keyboarding Resources Diigo Group.
The list includes links, comments on activities and tags/labels to help you see which activities may work for your students.
Be thinking what skills are appropriate for your students as you check the sites:
- just learning the basic location of keys?
- learning the 2-handed motor patterns of combining letters to make words?
- developing speed and accuracy when copying longer text?
- becoming proficient in home-row finger placement and touch-typing?
Also,
- which activities may be too frustrating (time constraints, too much negative feedback)?
- which may be too overstimulating or visually distracting?
- which have higher interest topics?
One size does not fit all. Luckily we have lots of options and new ones come around every week! Make sure you share good ones you find that aren't on the list.
Which strategies have been most successful in getting your students to be proficient keyboarders?
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Sharing Multimedia Files Home
Have you created some materials in Word or PowerPoint with multimedia supports (e.g. voice notes recorded in document as prompts/feedback, great images in a PowerPoint to explain a topic)?
Want students to use these documents at home?
Middle and High School staff can use Edline to post these larger files and have students or parents open them at home. Students can also use multimedia supports to respond if needed (e.g. recording their own voice notes for answers), and e-mail to the teacher (usually if under 10 MB in size) and bring to school on a portable USB drive. (see prior posts on adding voice notes for teacher prompts and student responses)
For Elementary School staff who may not have access to Edline, you can use a tool like http://www.schoolnotes.com/ to share instructional web-links and smaller files with parents and students at home. To share larger files with multimedia, you can use a file and folder sharing tool like http://www.box.net/ - a video is available to describe some ways to use this for educators.
How have you used Edline to share multimedia files with home? What has worked? What challenges have you encountered?
Want students to use these documents at home?
Middle and High School staff can use Edline to post these larger files and have students or parents open them at home. Students can also use multimedia supports to respond if needed (e.g. recording their own voice notes for answers), and e-mail to the teacher (usually if under 10 MB in size) and bring to school on a portable USB drive. (see prior posts on adding voice notes for teacher prompts and student responses)
For Elementary School staff who may not have access to Edline, you can use a tool like http://www.schoolnotes.com/ to share instructional web-links and smaller files with parents and students at home. To share larger files with multimedia, you can use a file and folder sharing tool like http://www.box.net/ - a video is available to describe some ways to use this for educators.
How have you used Edline to share multimedia files with home? What has worked? What challenges have you encountered?
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