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)
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
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
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