Overview: Students will review how to use Google Docs and type their final draft. Students will also learn how to insert a picture into a Google Document to support their opinion. In addition, students will share their writing using an author’s chair. Student writing will then be hung in the hallway.W.3.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons. I can write an opinion piece and support my opinion with reasons.

EduTyping.com is a website that students can practice their typing skills and fundamentals. It is broken down into letters & common symbols, words & sentences, and numbers & letter reviews. Students can go through each category which is further broken down into specific letter focuses. The website gives the speed, accuracy, and time each student has spent on the website. It caluclate the time based on actual typing time and not how long they have been on the website. There is a teacher login and a student login. The free trial allows teachers free typing for 90 days and enrolls up to 150 students. The teachers access shows all the records for each student and their progress within the website.

This is a keyboarding resource. There are lessons, games, and timed typing tests included in this resource. The lessons and games increase in difficuly, so students can move onto the next test or lesson as they learn more keys in the classroom. The timed typing tests give word per minute and errors. I use the typing tests primarily, as it's a good way to gauge progress. Students can log their words per minute and errors each time they perform the timed typing tests, so they can observe their progress. Options for timings for timed tests  up are 1-5 minutes.

Keyboarding Alphabet Dancing is a great "unplugged" review of keyboarding skills to help break the monotany of continuoulsy learning and practicing keystrokes. Disclaimer: There is no actual dancing required!

As explained in the video a set of the Alphabet Dancing Cards (each has a various letter key blackened on an all-blank keyboard) are needed for each group of students (3-4/group). From there, I usually like to give the students some time (7-10 minutes) to organize and create a strategy. The gist of the activity is that the instructor will give a clue, and then students need to use the cards to "write" the word that fulfills the clue.

This is a differentiated grading scale that could be used to grade keyboarding timed tests. It allows students to be graded based on where they currently are with their skills. It also promotes students to have a growth mindset and they get rewarded with "leveling up" as they get better at typing.

Keyboarding Olympics is a cumulative activity for a keyboarding class that consists of a variety of "events" comprised of keyboarding games, all created by Laura Schoenike, Menomonee Falls High School. This activity is best used in a 90-minute period (or two 45-minute periods) once students have learned all of the keys. Students are split into teams of "countries" and complete in 4 events: Wheel of Fortune (identifying letters by striking finger), Dinosaur Names (typing accuracy and speed), Human Tic-Tac-Toe (knowledge of keying technique), and Movie Songs (typing accuracy and speed).

This is a supplementary game that is great for reinforcing which fingers correctly type each letter key.

This is a sequence of supplementary keyboarding lessons based on using just a single hand. Often times when you teach keyboarding a student will come to class one day with a splint on their fingers, wrist brace, or arm cast, etc. This lesson sequence is for those students . These are workouts that involve just keys from a single hand. The student can still practice typing, the correct way, using their hand that isn't injured.

***These are not lessons to teach a person how to type the entire keyboard with a single hand. For instance if someone only has one hand and needed to type all the keys with one hand. This resource is intended for short-term use to fill in when a student in your class all of a sudden has a brace, splint, or cast on a hand and you want to have them keep practicing the correct way. Now they can at least practice one of their hands the correct way.

These are the directions that are located on the handout: Please cut out the letters above, mix them up and place them in an envelope or Ziploc baggie. Once the letters are mixed up then lay them out on a flat surface and challenge yourself by placing them in the correct order according to the Qwerty keyboard. Eventually make a game out of the activity by timing yourself and see if you can improve your time during each try.

I have the students make an envelope out of a piece of paper. I have them watch a tutorial that I found on YouTube.

This course covers the entire family of programming languages, starting with an introduction to programming languages in general and a discussion of the features and functionality that make up a modern programming language. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: identify the common concepts used to create programming languages; compare and contrast factors and commands that affect the programming state illustrate how execution ordering affects programming; identify the basic objects and constructs in Object-Oriented Programming; explain the characteristics of pure functional functions in functional programming; describe the structures and components utilized in logical programming. (Computer Science 404)

TypingClub School Edition is the most popular keyboarding software used in schools around the country.  There is both a free edition with limitation or a Pro Edition for a small yearly fee.

Each and every Friday my students take part in completing a typing assessment. The assessment consist of 3 (1) minute timings. This first week is to simply set a baseline. Keyboard strategies are shared throughout the quarter to help teach the correct key placement to ensure better typing speeds. IT1.a.4.m: Demonstrate the touch method of keyboarding on an alphanumeric keyboard at acceptable speed and accuracy levels. (Recommended minimum: 5 wpm x grade level).

Want a great way to teach proper typing skills?  This program allows your students to see and utilize the placement of your fingers to properly learn how to type.