Suggestions for a Catalina compatible typing program for elementary students
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Posted on
07-27-2020
08:05 AM
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a month ago
by
kh-richa_mig
Hello,
Our K12 Coordinator has used Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing for many years and we are now facing finding a different program because they have not reeleased a 64-bit version yet.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! :-)
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Posted on 07-27-2020 08:23 AM
Have you looked at Web-based typing sites? Our district has moved from computer based typing programs to web-based sites, because we're still in the process of switching all of our students over to using Chromebooks instead of MacBooks. We will still have MacBooks for very specific things.
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Posted on 07-27-2020 09:03 AM
@Damon.Byg Do you have a web based site you'd recommend? I was looking at https://www.lwtears.com/kwt
I was also looking at an app: Typing Fingers, which looked pretty nice for elementary students.
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Posted on 07-27-2020 09:38 AM
Unfortunately I do not have a specific site that we use in our distrcit. After looking at one of our building's websites I found sixteen different typing sites that they use to teach typing to our elementary students. I think they allow the students to choose which site they want to learn typing from.
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Posted on 07-27-2020 11:11 AM
@Damon.Byg I take it these are free sites? Could you list a few? Thanks so much!
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Posted on 07-27-2020 11:26 AM
I'm not 100% sure if these are free or not. But the entire list on the one school's site is the following. A lot of these are from www.abcya.com
- Typing Club - www.typingclub.com
- Typetastic - typetastic.com
- www.roomrecess.com
- play.typeracer.com
- 10fastfingers.com
- Keyboard Zoo - www.abcya.com/games/keyboarding_practice
- Keyboard Zoo 2 - www.abcya.com/games/keyboarding_practice_2
- Ghost Typing Jr - www.abcya.com/games/ghost_typing_jr
- Cup Stack Typing - www.abcya.com/games/cup_stack_typing_game
- Typing Rocket - www.abcya.com/games/typing_rocket
- Ghost Typing - www.abcya.com/games/ghost_typing
- Typing Race - www.abcya.com/games/typing_race_cars
- Keyboard Challenge - www.abcya.com/games/keyboard_challenge
- Keyboard Climber - www.tvokids.com/school-age/games/keyboard-climber
- Keyboard Climber 2 - www.tvokids.com/school-age/games/keyboard-climber-2
Apparently one of the links on our site no longer works, so I had to remove it from the list.
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Posted on 07-28-2020 07:35 AM
@Damon.Byg Thank you!!! That's awesome :-)
