Posted in Evidence of PD, Keyboarding, Resources, Teaching, Tools on Apr 4th, 2008 7 Comments »
As I wrote in my post a few days ago, I am starting over on my attempt to teach basic wiki (web editing/content creation) concepts (replacing Powerpoint - my choice) to my 6th graders. I rotate groups every 10 days (50 min. each day, 30 of which need to be spent typing), so I’ve been […]
Posted in Blogging, Keyboarding, PLN, Research, Resources, Social Networks, Teaching, Tools on Apr 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Here are updates on recent posts and issues for your reading and research pleasure!
Change on Filter/Blocks Survey
I’d chalk it up to a rookie mistake, but there’s really no excuse for my K-12, US-centric approach to my survey when I initially created it. I was called out on it multiple times and have made appropriate […]
Posted in Keyboarding, Teaching on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
I started my 6th 25-day rotation of 4th grade keyboarding (4 sections of 20-30 students, 2 in one school, 2 in another) today and it’s just amazing how my teaching has changed since the beginning of the year. It may be my first year teaching, but I was fairly certain when I walked into my […]
Posted in Keyboarding, Social Networks, Teaching on Mar 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
The hot currency to kids in my classes is ‘free’ computer time - as in, time on a computer DURING class, where they can choose their own activity. In my experience, so many teachers look down on this as simply a waste of computer lab time and a teacher not doing his/her job - I […]
Posted in Keyboarding, Social Networks, Teaching, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
Note: images below not live links
If Facebook can make Scrabble (Scrabulous) cool, why not keyboarding? I’ve discovered that 2 of my favorite keyboarding activities can be added as Facebook apps……………one step forward for the cool factor of business ed, right? Well, probably not, but this geeky teacher can dream, right?
Check out Fingerjig and Typing Master for some […]
Posted in Keyboarding, Teaching on Mar 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
My 6th grade keyboarding students get so frustrated with me when I introduce this activity because it actually makes them THINK, which is usually unheard of in traditional keyboarding practice I don’t need to go into the research about keyboarding skills being developed best through drill and practice, consistent time on the keyboard, and […]
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