1/22/2017 January 22, 2017We started off the new year getting back into keyboarding and continuing with coding at the Code Studio website. We will revisit coding from time to time throughout the remainder of the year. If you have not considered downloading the Type to Learn software at home to allow your student to continue keyboarding practice outside of our limited class time, I would encourage you to consider it. It is a large program but completely free to use and progress will be recorded whether the student works at home or at school. Please see Keyboarding on this site for download instructions. It is important to encourage good posture and correct home row finger position at home as well. Some students who are using the program at home have made great progress through the lessons. One problem for many third graders is keeping fingers on the home row. I move around the room helping them with this but if left to their own devices and unsupervised they are going to revert to incorrect finger positions. There are many free online programs as well but the methodology and game based environment as well as progress tracking in the TTL4 program makes this our program of choice. Last week we did a refresher on cut and paste with Jack and the Beanstalk, an activity in which students used ctrl+ x and ctrl + v to rearrange the parts of the story. We will continue with the Jack and the Beanstalk theme next week as we explore Microsoft Drawing tools and formatting as well as the duplicating process. We will also experiment with Google Voice typing. It may be a few more weeks until we have a finished product for a blog post. Keyboard by User:Cy21 under CC BY-SA 3.0
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