Sunday, June 2, 2013

Keyboarding Bootcamp

I teach keyboarding to third graders. To make this a little more fun and interesting, I've given it a Keyboarding Bootcamp theme. This idea came from Beth Newingham and her article, "Take Your Students to Typing Camp."

Each of the third graders gets a dog tag after learning the home row keys and completing a quiz on them.
They earn more charms to go on their dogtags after they complete various missions. We even have a bootcamp chant which I made up that they learn over the course of the unit. Listen to the verses:



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