It always feels good to be recognized for your achievements. Not only is recognition enjoyable, but it motivates you to work harder and continue to seek improvement. Here are 6 fun ways to recognize students’ typing progress in your classroom.
By including badges in Typing.com, we didn’t just want to make the program more fun for kids but wanted to capitalize on research that shows how badges can improve achievement. Read on to learn more about 8 different science-backed ways that badges can help boost student performance…
Students are much more likely to focus on their typing lessons when they have a clear picture of what they’re aiming for.
When it comes to thinking through everything you need to get your typing curriculum up and running, we’ve got you covered. Here, we bring you everything a typing teacher needs for back-to-school in one convenient post.
The French have their own keyboard (also used in Belgium) that is known as the AZERTY keyboard. It is also known by many as the being the strangest and least logical keyboard in existence.
Why do some people put two spaces after a period, and others only one? Which is the CORRECT way? Read on to learn more about this contentious typing debate!
If you have students who are fast on their way to mastering touch typing with exemplary speed and accuracy, how can you continue to provide them with a challenge? Suggest they practice advanced punctuation and symbols.
The ancient Roman Philosopher Seneca once said, “While we teach, we learn.” In recent years, scientists have been exploring the body of evidence to support this claim by studying what they call the protégé effect.
And sure enough, research supports the idea that students often learn best by teaching something to someone else. The mere fact of being accountable for someone else’s learning increases motivation to master a concept, and the need to explain it in one’s own words requires a deeper level of understanding.
Starting a class website is a great way to harness the power of the protégé effect as students become experts on a subject. Through doing research, conducting interviews, compiling findings, analyzing information, and presenting their ideas in a clear manner students are bound to come out with a much more profound understanding of a topic.
Additionally, a class website gives students something to show for their work down the line. It can be a growing and evolving project that students might even use on a college application one day.
There are plenty of free platforms that teachers can use to start a website. Arguably the most user-friendly is Google Sites. With a few clicks on your keyboard, you can have a professional looking website in a matter of minutes!
Sign in to Google Sites with your Google account.
Click Create and choose between new or original Google sites (we prefer new for a much more polished look).
Create a title for the website so that you’ll be able to easily find it again, and then use the “Add editors” button at the top to add students to the website. You can share one website with your whole class, a small group of students, or assign a different website to each kid. Students will receive an email inviting them to edit the website.
At this point, the interface is easy enough to use that students can teach themselves (another valuable part of the learning experience). Just double click wherever you want to add text or an image, and a dial will pop up where to choose what you want to insert. On the right-hand toolbar, students can choose themes and add additional pages, and they can customize their sites by adding photo backgrounds and even embedding videos.
When students are ready to go public they just hit Publish at the top and choose a name and privacy settings for their website.
Click here for some more useful information on how to get students started with blogging.
Whether you choose to use Google Sites or another platform, the following are some tips to ease the website creating process in your classroom.
Be prepared for your students to surprise you and themselves with just how much they can learn and do when tasked with the job of becoming an expert and sharing their knowledge through a class website.
For more resources on teaching your students about blogging, check out this online, interactive CTE course on Blogging for Beginners.
Even the fastest hunt and peck typists will never be able to type as quickly as someone who is making use of all ten of their digits. Here’s why—
Here are some tips that will help you save time and a major headache whenever your students are logging in to online services.