Learning to type

We'd like every student in the secondary school to learn to type - or at least improve their keyboarding skills. Here is a draft for our approach:

1. Learn about correct posture and set up of equipment/space.
2. Home keys - this is critical, ensure no switching of sides!
3. Increasing our expectations for the amount of typing students do - we learn best by doing!
4. Supplementing this with some games and practice of drills to learn the motor skills - some to start you off are below...

List of online tools to practice typing - each student needs to evaluate the below tools at some stage during the next week and place a comment on this blog post with their evaluation of the tool:

1. Typing Club - Reuben and Anna to evaluate
2. Typing Tutor - Olivia and Helena to evaluate
3. Typing Lessons - Reuben and Tyler to evaluate
4. Typing Test - Meg and Jenny to evaluate
5. Typing Test 2 - Helena and Nathan to evaluate