Practice Your Keyboarding Skills!!!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Work on Your Keyboarding Skills 

In order to improve keyboarding skills (accuracy and speed), PPS is requiring students to spend a minimum of one hour per week practicing throughout the summer.  Students may use the games and websites listed below.  Using the "Summer Typing Log," students must keep a record of their practice time, and parents must sign the log after each practice session.  The "Summer Typing Log" is located in the FORMS section of this website.  Students are encouraged to spend even more than an hour per week practicing their keyboarding skills in preparation for the school year.  Have fun while learning to type faster and more accurately!

Sites for Practicing Keyboarding Skills 

Typing Drills

http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/English.html

Dance Mat Typing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Thinkquest's Computer Circus

http://library.thinkquest.org/18709/data/contents.html

Powertyping

http://www.powertyping.com/

Typing Exercise

http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/typing/index.htm

Mrs. Hoke's Keyboarding Webpage

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.hccsc.k12.in.us/roanoke/Roanoke/computerlab/images/keyboard.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.hccsc.k12.in.us/roanoke/Roanoke/computerlab/keyboarding.htm&h=512&w=1232&sz=111&hl=en&start=115&tbnid=SVKlyTYCeIqhEM:&tbnh=62&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkeyboarding%26start%3D100%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN

Software for Purchase 

Typing Test

http://www.typingtest.com/

Typing Pal

http://www.typingpal.com/test/

 

Sites Explaining Keyboarding

How Stuff Works

http://www.howstuffworks.com/keyboard.htm