Kids today need to know how to type now that our world is mostly digital and online. Typing.com is a clear, engaging, step-by-step curriculum that you can customize. Here are the most frequently asked questions by educators when setting up their accounts.
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In Part II of our Distance Learning series, we will be talking about how to bridge the distance between you and your students, what to do if you homeschool or are a school/district administrator, and other ways to help your students thrive while learning from home.
With all the uncertainty surrounding schools opening, educators must be prepared to digitize teaching for effective distance learning. In this first part of a 4-part series, you’ll learn which features will help you break down the distance barriers—so everyone can thrive.
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Returning to the classroom does not mean the disappearance of the use of technology implemented over the last year or before. Which is why for the next 7 days, Typing.com now offers you, your schools, and districts to get 50% off premium licenses for every license you buy.
In consideration of new vetting programs, new budget cuts, and the return to the classroom, we’ve taken a hard look at how we can help you get through this roller coaster in the easiest (and cheapest!) way possible.
Technology isn’t going anywhere. In fact, it’s becoming more pervasive and important with every passing day. Prepare your schools and students for success—in and out of the classroom—with:
Instant Information Syncing
Distraction-free Engagement
Administrative Tools
New Discounted Pricing
Typing.com is in your corner! Help your students start building critical foundational skills now. Hopefully, we can partner with you for the coming school year—and beyond!
As kids today migrate from text-based digital media to image-heavy apps like Instagram and Snapchat, it becomes harder for them to pay attention to the traditional school task—let alone long lectures. Can you imagine what life would be like if students didn’t just enjoy class but looked forward to it? It’s possible with gamification!
We all use a computer keyboard at some time or another in our lives – some of us more than others. Here are some fun facts to consider as you’re typing away!
They’re here! Enjoy these pre-formatted Spring stories for your Typing.com custom lessons.
Traditional St. Patricks Day Songs
Here are some traditional songs and stories for March that are pre-formatted for your Typing.com custom lessons. They are separated into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced content. Please note, if the story is too long, or if your students don’t have enough time to finish it, you’ll want to break them down into multiple lessons as partially completed content is not saved.
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Tips for keeping computer lab keyboards clean (and germ free)!
It’s that time of year again – flu season. And school computer and laptop keyboards are a haven for bacteria. One way to make sure that you and your students stay as healthy as possible, is to keep your school’s computer keyboards clean and germ free.
Obviously, you can’t just wipe it down with a wet cloth – keyboards are electrical devices and shouldn’t get wet. In addition, dirt and grime aren’t just on the surface – they’re also between the crevasses of your keyboards, making them even harder to clean.
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You asked, we delivered…
We are always looking to improve your experience with Typing.com, so we sent a survey to all our hard-working teachers, asking what additional curriculum you would like to see added to the program. There were a lot of great suggestions, but two subjects were asked for again and again – 6th Grade Vocabulary, and MLA Citations.
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It’s an inevitable fact of teaching that students will complete the work you assign them at different paces. Without fail, one student will finish before another student is even halfway through.
Every teacher learns pretty quickly that it’s imperative to have a game plan for what students will do when they finish their work early. It makes sense then, that one of the greatest advantages of an online program like Typing.com, is that students can work at their own pace.
Many of our teachers find that it’s useful to manage student progress by assigning specific lessons to their classes each week. Assigning lessons is a good way to keep students working on the specific content you’ve chosen, and to help you keep tabs on how a given class is doing across certain skills.
So what do you do if some students breeze through the day’s lessons while others are slowly chugging along?
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