Welcome to Neon Team Exploratory

 With Ms. Falcon

Quarter 1 Study Skills

Quarter 2 Keyboarding

Quarter 3 Keyboarding

Quarter 4 Keyboarding

See below for great information

Expectations

Exploratory Notes

Homework Schedule

Progress Reports

Links to free typing practice:

Dance Mat Typing

Touch Typing

Type Online

Krazy Keyboarding for Kids

Type Me from FunSchool-Kaboose "Easy", "Medium" or "Hard" plus other settings.
Type the letters you see falling before they hit the bottom of the screen.

Learn 2 Type

Word Meister - You're scored on how many seconds it takes you to guess & spell the words, 5 in each round.  TIP: Use your keyboarding skills to practice. 
You can also spell words by clicking on letters - mouse practice. 

Typer Shark at Yahoo Games - Type the words on the sharks before they reach you, the diver.

Fearless Freida the Big Kahuna from Game Goo - Listen for a word and type it to hear it sounded out.

Keyboard Challenge Learn the Keys from ABCya. Drag the keys into position on the blank keyboard. Start with the home row.

Keyboard and Typing Tutor

Free Typing Game - Lessons and Tests too.
Use the tabs to select a section. Practice using the Lessons, and then try the hungry frog game.

Find the Letter

Cup Stacking and Alpha Drop from Learning Games for Kids

Keyboarding Skills from e-Learning
Listen and follow directions to work your way through.

Peter's Online Typing Course

Power Typing

  http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/

http://www.powertyping.com/typing_test/typing_test.shtml

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/

      Keyboarding Extras:

Special Keyboarding Tips

Have you seen this little squiggly mark ~ ? 
What's it called?          How do you type it?

Use the numeric keypad on your keyboard 
to type these characters and symbols:

Hold down the Alt key and type... to make this.
248   or    0176 90° (degree symbol)
246   or   0247 4÷2 (division symbol)
0215 2×5 (multiplication symbol)
155 25¢ (cent sign)
253 4² (exponent of 2)
0128 € (Euro)
0163 £ (British Pound)
0182
160 á
130 é
161 í
162 ó
163 ú
164 ñ
129 ü
Num Lock must be on.

Another way to type symbols in Word is by clicking
Insert (found in the menu bar) then Symbol.
© ¾ ¢ ñ  and others

Math Tip: in Word type other exponents by holding down the Ctrl, Shift, and + keys, release,
then type the number key (not using numeric keypad). Remove the feature by again pressing Ctrl, Shift, and +    
Example:  43
Another method is to click Format, Font in the Menu Bar. Choose "Superscript"
when typing or after highlighting the number.

 

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