As I've said before, in
Just Keep Typing - Part Two and
Just Keep Typing, (posts which feature lots of great keyboarding games), summer is a great time to work on your keyboarding. This year, we have transitioned to using a popular new website titled
Typing Club as our major keyboarding instruction tool at HTS, though most students have not used it since first semester.
Typing Club provides 100 free activities that begin with the basics and progress in difficulty until you can touch type on your entire keyboard. I have found that our students like this program better than previous options, as the lessons are quite short and manageable. They also seem to like the fact that as you type during each lesson you are given instant real-time feedback about your accuracy and speed.
If your child would like to work on keyboarding this summer, just login to
Typing Club using the child's HTS-issued Gmail account and password. If you are new to HTS and need a Gmail account, please contact Tech Teacher Mary Beth Morell on mbmorell@htsdc.org.
Please also check out previous keyboarding entries to explore great games like
BBC Dancemat Typing, the
Typing Games at ABCya and
TyperShark.
