Keyboarding+Instructiton

Websites and Software for Keyboarding Instruction and Practice Welcome to Dance Mat Typing, an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7-11. Each of the 4 levels are divided into 3 stages. Begin at level 1 and build up your skills gradually through to level 4. You will need headphones or speakers to enjoy the song and dance in each game. Worksheets are available for each stage that can be printed out and used offline with a typewriter or computer. Comments: Teaches keyboarding in order of homerow, top row then bottom row. Cartoon goat speaks with slightly British accent and songs/dances have an Elvis theme to them. Gives good visuals. || Find the letter-see how many letters you can find on the keyboard in 30 seconds. Comments: Simple game which shows a large letter on the screen and tracks how many you can type in a 30 second time period. Gives a raw total score, not in wpm. || FreeTypingGame.net are committed to bringing you high quality, fun and interactive free touch typing games, free touch typing lessons and free touch typing tests. Our free typing lessons have 30 different typing lessons including homerow and 10 key to choose from. We award a printable certificate on completion! Take a look at our timed typing test or our certificate typing test. Many test lessons are based on classic stories to make the test even more fun. Learning to touch type has never been more fun or exciting. Comments: Gives WPM and errors for 1 and 5 minute timings. Allows errors to remain while continuing to type. Several cute games. Lessons are taught by each finger in home row first such as index of both hands, long finger, ring finger, etc then seems to be more random, but does one finger on each hand. || Available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese Choose between 18 different keyboard layouts to learn, 27 guided lessons to learn step-by-step from the beginning, web based course, no downloads required. ||
 * __ Dance Mat Typing- __ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing
 * Find the Letter- [|www.freewebs.com/weddell/findtheletter.html]
 * __ FreeTypingGame- __ [|http://freetypinggame.net]
 * __ Free Online Typing course- __ http://www.goodtyping.com/