Keyboarding Resources for Summer

As summer approaches, here are some free keyboarding resources you can pass along to students/families.

Keyboarding Resources
The following keyboarding programs are designed to introduce keyboarding and to build fluency. Students will want to spend time within the programs to learn the typing basics.

Purpose: To develop typing skills
https://www.typing.com/

Create a login
Includes lessons, tests and games.
Students go through an animated lesson (headphones needed). At the end of each level, they test their typing speed.
Students earn badges as they complete lessons within the 4 levels in the program
Can remove Ads( top of screen)

dance mat
Purpose: To develop typing skills
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#zgkpn39

Students do not login because there is no data that is saved
Students go through an animated lesson (headphones needed). At the end of each level, they test their typing speed.
There are 4 levels in the program
Helpful tips to teach students under the tab “Why learn to touch type?”
Please use Google Chrome to run this program

Nitro
Purpose: To increase typing speed
https://www.nitrotype.com/

Create a login
Race the computer or friends (add under the tab Friends)
Earn money to purchase cars, paint cars, and buy nitro (allows students to skip words by pressing enter in the race, this can only be used up to 3x)
Go to Stats to see how students are progressing