Keyboarding Skills (Free Internet Sites)

Keyboarding Practice 2016- 2017

PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE

KEYBOARDING SKILLS (FREE INTERNET SITES)

I am providing a list of Internet sites that provide free keyboarding programs. Learning to type by touch, (without looking at the keys) is extremely helpful when working on the Internet and preparing documents. Many web pages have links to various other sites. I do not endorse any sites, and am only suggesting the primary sites on this document, as a tool to help in the development of proper keyboarding skills, and as a supplemental tool to increase speed and accuracy. The more practice a person applies to keyboarding skills, the better those skills become. This is a working document.

http://www.goodtyping.com This website requires creation of user. The site asks for an e-mail account, because if the student forgets their password, you can request that it be e-mailed to your address account. It is your decision as a parent as to whether or not you want to open an account for your child, and if you want to use your own e-mail address.

Typing speed test is available without creating an account

27 guided lessons to learn step-by-step from the beginning

Choose between 18 different keyboard layouts to learn – The U.S. version is the QWERTY layout

Web-based course; No downloads required.

Nice color coded keyboard on screen as you type

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/Keyboarding/ Keyboarding Practice

17 drills to help you improve keyboarding technique and speed

Not very good as a visual, black and white boxes to type each line 2x’s

Picture on page doesn’t reveal a keyboard to use as a tool as you type

http://www.powertyping.com/ Power Typing

Choose between 2 different platforms, QWERTY or DVORAK. The U.S. official keyboard format is the QWERTY format. Notice the keyboard keys next to the tab key, are in order, QWERTY.

Screen is somewhat colorful, a bit busy. No keyboard layout shown while typing the lessons.

Keyboarding Practice 2016- 2017

13 lessons help you practice your keyboarding skills

5 typing games are included. They are fun and continue to enhance keyboarding skills. Some games allow choices of levels, i.e. beginner, novice, intermediate, advanced, faster. There are a variety of level breakdowns. These games are good supplemental tools to practice your keyboarding however, some games may be frustrating because you need to be able to know where the keys are to beat the clock on some games.

http://sense-lang.org/typing/ Sense Lang Website.

A few tips for efficient and correct use of the program

This site gives a lot of factual information on keyboarding

Scrolling ‘text’ bar of keys to be typed, person types the letter as it is underlined

A keyboard is provided for visual assistance while keying letters

Student has 4 color choices for the background screen

Link on top leads to 2 new games, select regular keyboard for Balloons Game, and Chameleon Game

Balloons Game. The game enables the player to learn the positions of the letters on the keyboard, without the need to look at the keyboard itself. Aim of the game: To burst as many balloons as possible, where each balloon represents one letter and helps teach and improve the touch typing method.

Chameleon Game. The game enables the player to practice typing structured text, whilst improving the typing speed. Aim of the game: to feed the chameleon as many flies as possible... the more the chameleon eats the faster the typing gets. At each stage of the game the player has to increase the typing speed.