Week 1: Teacher Tasks

The intent of this blog is to guide you through the process of slowly and steadily setting the stage for your students to regularly practice keyboarding at home. If you follow it, you willl be on your way. The first step is to dedicate 15 or 20 minutes to a class discussion. It's not time to think about usernames, passwords or logging in to a computer yet. Lab time is not required.

1. Hold a discussion in your classroom - Suggested time = 15 minutes
   Dedicate some time to a class discussion about the importance of regular keyboarding practice.
   View lesson plan with key points identified and handouts>
   
   
2. Assign homework: Send home note to parents requesting information via a brief online survey. Or, if you regularly communicate with parents via email or a blog, copy and paste the link to the parent note to your email or blog, then send it to parents. You will receive the results from the survey.
   View and print parent note>

Coming soon:

1. View a GoogleDocs presentation on correct keyboarding techniques complete with suggestions for use with students.
   
2. Learn to easily monitor student self-recorded practice records.
3. Receive feedback from parent sign up and information collected.
   
4. Follow up email from myself to parents and teachers, using current addresses collected through the online survey.

Questions or Suggestions?
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Why a Keyboarding Blog?

Effective and efficient computer use is essential to students today and keyboarding skills provide an important foundation. The purpose of this blog is to help students develop keyboarding practice habits that will lead to improved performance.

Help Students Develop a Practice Habit
A habit takes about five weeks to develop, which means this is the perfect time to help students develop one. There is plenty of time between now and the start of next school year to make a huge difference in the development of good keyboarding skills by engaging in regular Custom Typing Tutorial practice sessions. Children will thank you for this one day!

This blog is a great tool to guide readers through the process of developing good practice habits because new information always appears at the top of the page. This blog will be updated every Thursday with information to help continue to develop good keyboarding habits. Go to the sidebar to sign up to participate and receive updates every Thursday.

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