Learning to Type: We Try Out Four Typing Educational Programs

Whether you're learning to type or learning a NEW way to type, these four typing programs will help teach you the skills you ...
The Washington Post

Elementary students learn keyboard typing ahead of new Common Core tests

The 7-year-olds in Natalie May’s class have to stretch their fingers across the keyboards to reach “ASDF” and “JKL;” as they listen to the animated characters on their computer screens talk about ...
Chicago Tribune

FROM TYPING TO ACCOUNTING, TUTORIALS SATISFY THE NEED TO KNOW.

For many people, memories of typing class dredge up images of monotonous drills and endless repetition of nonsense words. But then, Mavis Beacon wasn`t the teacher. The tutorial software program ...
Government Technology

Revisiting the Quick Brown Fox and the Lazy Dog: A New Focus on Keyboarding

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...
The Gazette

Students' computer skills gain importance with new Colorado testing program

The irascible goat in the purple jumpsuit is teaching the class how to keyboard. He tells everyone to put their fingers on the "home row" and exclaims "Let's rock and roll." Ashlyn Cortez, 8, ...
Indiatimes

Training for blind school teachers in typing software

The Sharada Braille Writer, a software that aids blind people in computer typing, is looked upon as a boon. Now, in a bid to make the software useful to many more lives, the State Council Educational ...