Every Friday I’ll send you a wonderful website that my classes and my parents love. I think you’ll find they’ll be a favorite of your students as they are of mine.
Step-by-step wiki to teach keyboarding
Age:
2nd-8th
Topic:
Teach keyboarding in the classroom
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Review:
If you’ve been thrown into the slot of tech teacher at your school, or just want to shake up the program you’ve been teaching for years, this wiki will take you through how to teach keyboarding to grades 2-8. It’s a real-time wiki, meaning I’m using it right now, so you’ll see lots of changes every day. Currently, I’m teaching a summer keyboard class to 4th graders, so that’s what’s under What We Did Today. When the school year returns, it’ll be more of a monthly approach to guide students through skills they need to learn in thirty days.
Either way, you might find it useful for your classes. I’d love your feedback. What else should I include?
Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and author of two technology training books for middle school. She wrote Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office, WordDreams, or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
