Information Technology

Links verified 12/8/2020

Typing Resources - below

1. Business Card Lesson Plan - Create your own business card in this lesson.
2. Computer Science Career Guide - explore careers in Computer Science
3. Computer Skills Practice Hotlist - Practice your computer skills testing with these numerous links 
4. Create Your Own Business Card - from the desktop publishing division of About.com
5. Desktop Publishing Task - two lesson plans plus eight tasks 
6. Design and Technology - Bitesize information that students need to understand in dealing with design and technology. Many topic areas
7. Ergonomics Guidelines for Computer use by Children -
8. How to Clean Your Laptop Properly at Home - A laptop is an expensive and sensitive device that needs extra care
9. Keyboarding lesson plans - by Tonya Skinner
10. Lesson Plans - Computers - from Teach-nology
11. Practice Materials for the NC Test of Computer Skills - Quia Tests
12. Professional, Technical Writing - These Online Writing Lab (OWL) resources will help you conduct research and compose documents for the workplace, such as memoranda and business letters. This section also includes resources for writing report and scientific abstracts. 
13. Technology advice for the novice - If you are complete novice to technology or you wish to find out more about a certain aspect of technology, this site will provide you with advice or provide you with curiosity so you will want to explore a technology subject in more depth.
14. Typing Resources
    1. Alfa Typing - 60 typing lessons in English, designed in collaboration with professional teacher
    2. Free Typing Game.Net - high quality, fun and interactive free touch typing games, free touch typing lessons, and free touch typing tests
    3. The Frogs are Off Their Diet! - The frogs are eating all the letters. Help them stay on their diet by typing the letters before they get swallowed
    4. Fun to Type - typing games for kids
    5. How Fast Can You Type - choose a category and type for 60 seconds
    6. Keyboard Challenge - Click and drag letters to their correct places. Only the letters in the right spots will stay! Choose the keyboard design you like and then click on it to begin
    7. Learn Touch Typing - a web application that will help you teach touch typing; typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys
    8. Online Typing Test from Speed Typing - How fast can you type? Looking for an easy and free way to test typing speed online? Well, Speed Typing says you've come to the right place.
    9. Online Typing Tutor Lessons - Ever wonder how people learn to type so fast? Touch typing is a skill that uses muscle memory developed only through practice. Speed Typing Online makes practicing easy and fun - all for free.
    10. Peter's Online Typing Course - a set of free online typing lessons and typing exercises for beginning typists, and frustrated hunt-and-peckers who want to move from four-finger typing to full-blown touch typing
    11. Power Typing - free online typing lessons for Qwerty or Dvorak keyboards plus typing games to practice typing
    12. Sense-Lang - more than one way to practice touch typing
    13. SlimeKids - Game-style typing games.
    14. Test Your Typing On-line - Now you can test your typing skills quickly and easily within your web browser with Typing Master's On.line Typing Test. Based on the short text typing sample given during the test, this Java(TM) applet will estimate your typing skills including typing speed, accuracy and net speed. You can also receive test results directly to your Email address.
    15. Touch Typing - Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing. (from senselang.com)
    16. Typing Lessons - Take typing speed test, practice your touch typing skills, learn to type faster and with fewer errors with this free online typing tutor.
    17. Typing - Learn2Type - lessons and quizzes [registration is required, but it is free]
    18. Typing - Mr Kent's Typing Test
    19. Typing - practice online; links for free online typing sites.
    20. Typing Games Treasure - improve your keyboarding skills with typing games
    21. Typing to the Test - pick a category and see  how fast you can type
    22. Typing Tutor - practice keyboarding skills
    23. Typing - Keyboard Exercises - from Peter's Online Typing Course
    24. TypeTastic - play your way into typing
    25. Typing.com - a free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for typists of all skill levels which includes entertaining typing games, typing tests, and free official typing certification
15. Word Processing Lessons

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