The Almena Method™ is an innovative method that teaches computer keyboard touch typing in One Lesson. It is a proven and successful application. It is a proven and successful application. With over two million users worldwide.
Looking for an online program that is fun and effective? A couple of years ago I shared the It is a unique animated program where the Brits take keyboarding novices through their paces while singing Rock and Roll!!!! How can you lose?
It has all of the necessary elements: Rock and Roll, well-designed lessons, and animated goats, chickens and frogs. I like the overall program but I thought that the initial interface might be a bit confusing.
It worked well and our 4th grade kids loved it. The funniest part was that after they spent half an hour listening to goats sing rock and roll with a, they spent the rest of the day “talking funny.” =-) Give it a try and tell us how your students (and you) liked it. What would you say about learning the keys on the keyboard in an hour? The Almena Method claims that you can learn all of the key locations in an hour.
It doesn’t claim that you will become an accomplished keyboarder in an hour, but they have a reference system for you to use to figure out which fingers you need to use for each of the letters. The is quite different from the standard style of mastering the homerow and then moving throughout the rest of the keyboard learning the keys. Almena King developed a series of mnemonic jingles to assist in remembering the key locations. Once you learn these jingles, you can just recite them to yourself to remember where you’ll find the letters. Notice the first jingle, Quiet Aunt Zelda, is for the three keys you hit with your left pinky. Want Something e Xtra is for your left ring finger. And so on and so on and so on.
The Almena method is available as a server-loaded program that will run through your school’s network. It is also available through the Web so that the students can run it at school and at home. Does it work? We used it with a class of 4th graders and had reasonable outcomes. Not all of the students used the jingles. When we interviewed the students, only about half of them said that they used the jingles to find the letters.
I think that it had something to do with their learning styles. The program is not limited to learning the jingles. The Almena Method also includes a number of lessons that the students use to practice keying the letters they have learned using the jingles. It includes assessment tests as well to gauge student progress. Have you tried the Almena Method? How did it work?
What did you find that made it useful? Watch OUT!!!!! This will eat away ALL of your Time!!!
Is a place where you can practice your typing by competing with other typists from all over the world. You can practice by yourself, compete with friends or compete with perfect strangers. I couldn’t believe it but I saw some guy named Dave who was typing 150 wpm. THAT is amazing!! It gets its name from the scenario that you are driving a race car and the faster you type, the faster your car will go. I won the first few races that I typed. I was typing at about 44 wpm.
It doesn’t let you make mistakes so if you mistype, you have to go back and retype it until it’s correct. The tricky thing is that I noticed as I got better, so did my opponents. They weren’t he same ones and it looked like they was mixing and matching to challenge me.
Naturally, this kept me in “The Flow” (See ) and I lost complete track of time. The only problem with this site is their choice of text to type. They have a totally innovative method for selecting text. They have you type quotes from movies. At the end of typing the quote, you can purchase the video if you wish.
(ala ) I say that this is a problem because some fo the text that I typed wasn’t appropriate for elementary school kids. But it’s good for you to practice. Good luck and.Happy Typing!!!! Check this one out and see how fast you can go. Looking for a fun mousing activity for your keyboarding learners? Is your answer!!!! This simple but entertaining website hosted by the Central Kansas Library System is a winner.
It takes the learner through 30 screens asking the learner to click on successive numbers along the way. These number appear in varying sizes and different screen locations to test the learner’s alertness and skill.
As well as clicking on numbers, the learner is asked to use radio buttons, check boxes, drop down menus, and scroll bars. This site is ready for kids from 5 through 105 years old. The accompanying text is written at about 5th grade, but that shouldn’t get in the way appealing to the younger crowd.
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