Keyboarding Training and Fun for Home

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?

Viewing two screens at the same time in Word 07
When writing an assignment in Microsoft Word it can be useful to have two windows visible at the same time, for example a screen with and outline and a working screen. This jing demonstrates how to use the "view side by side" function in Word 07. http://www.screencast.com/users/elliseit/folders/Jing/media/6e55898d-8027-413f-9ca3-8d28b49dcfc8