Typing Tips: The How and Why of Teaching Students Keyboarding Skills (Comparison Of Free Sites)

A comparison of 4 of the best free online resources for learning keyboarding. A comparison table offers a quick overview of what these touch typing tutors for kids offer! This post discusses the teaching of both handwriting and touch typing. The ability to type with reasonable speed and accuracy helps students to better cope with the digital world they live in. Kathleen Morris

The ability to type with reasonable speed and accuracy helps students to better cope with the digital world they live in. This post discusses the teaching of both handwriting and typing. I share four of the best free online resources for teaching keyboarding. Check out the comparison table for a quick overview of what these sites offer!

Technify Your Teaching in 2013: PD Opportunity

As well as this blog and my class blog, I write Tech Tools for Teachers. This is a collaborative effort with my colleagues, Matt Limb and Simon Collier. Each fortnight we review an online tool and provide step-by-step instructions on its use. In January of this year we ran a professional development day called Technify […]

PowerPoint: Dead or Alive?

Since Microsoft PowerPoint was released in 1990, it has been a key tool in many classroom ICT programs and businesses. There seems to be a reoccurring theme in social media that “PowerPoint is dead”. PowerPoint has been the butt of many jokes including this infographic by SlideRocket. Wikipedia outlines a history of the “death by PowerPoint” criticism, […]