8th Grade

Keyboarding

Projects

Keyboarding

Keyboarding is an essential skill in almost all areas of computer use.  It will be taught/reinforced throughout the school year.  As the year progresses, students' keyboarding skill level will expected to increase.

Keyboarding Rubric:

Students will graded on keyboarding in in the following two areas:

• technique 
• WPM (words per minute)

Please review the Keyboarding Rubric.

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Online Keyboarding Practice:

Bubbles:  Type the letters in the bubbles.  This games is easy and fun
www.typingmaster.com/default.asp

Free Touch Typing:  This easy to use free program will help you learn to type.  It is very basic and does not have any games.
www.sense-lang.org/typing

Nimble Fingers: This site has a lot of useful information and it is worth looking at the suggestions for proper posture.
www.nimblefingers.com/

Free Typing Games:  This site has great free typing games.
www.freetypinggame.net/

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