Question: When Keyboarding is taught in Elementary, is it part of
the Lang. Arts curriculum or is it a separate curriculum and who
teaches it? (core teacher or a specials teacher like Art, Music and
PE?)
Thanks,
Layne
At SH keyboarding is taught in the 5/6 grades in what is called
What are other schools using to teach keyboarding, or are you at all?
Chad Frerichs
Director Of Technology
Okoboji Community Schools
Milford, IA 51351
We are using Keybo for younger kids and Ultrakey for upper elementary. I
haven't heard a lot of feedback either positive or negative on either software.
Eric Johnson
Technology Director
Spencer Community Schools
23 East 7th Street
Spencer, IA 51301
712.262.8950
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What are other schools using to teach keyboarding, or are you at all?
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Director Of Technology
Okoboji Community
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What are other schools using to teach keyboarding, or are you at all?
Chad Frerichs
Director Of Technology
Okoboji Community Schools
Milford, IA
EG uses Sunburst Software (not sure of the name right now) at the
Elementary. We have All The Right Type at the Middle School and then
Micro TYpe Pro and Cortez Peters at the HS.
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Lance L. Lennon
District Technology Director
Eagle grove Community School District
515-448-5143
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EG uses Sunburst Software (not sure of the name right now) at the
Elementary. We have All The Right Type at the Middle School
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PAC uses All the Right Type and Mavis Beacon in grades 4-8. No
keyboarding is done at the High School Level.
Brett Johnston
Director of Information Technology
Pocahontas Area Community School District
Pocahontas
We are looking to adopt keyboarding software for our 1st-3rd graders
to put
in a PC computer lab. Does anyone have an existing program or have you
heard of a program that is worthwhile? Are there certain attributes
that we
should be looking for? There are lots in the catalogs, but it is hard
