Good Gravy!!!! Look at all of these resource!!!!! Robin Burkes Parker Research and Curriculum Unit Professional Development Specialist Email: rab3@ra.msstate.edu Web Address: http://www.msstate.edu/~rab3 Phone: 662.325.2510 Fax: 662.325.3296 -----Original Message----- From: EDTECH - Educational Technology [mailto:EDTECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On Behalf Of EDTECH Editor-Eiffert Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 10:21 PM To: EDTECH@H-NET.MSU.EDU Subject: Typing links -- online & downloads From: Lee Lacy <lacyl@austinkids.org> Free typing stuff, courtesy of The Austin Children's Museum: ONLINE: The best! BBC Online Typing, levels 1-4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ Fearless Frieda - typing and spelling game - fun! http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/frieda/frieda.html Fearless Frieda Skateboarding - typing & spelling: http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/frieda2/frieda2.html Typing with Katie - Kindergarten: http://growing.course.com/level_K/type/index.html Typing with Burton - Level 1: http://growing.course.com/level_1/keyboard/index.html Typing with Booker - Level 2: http://www.growing.course.com/level_2/keyboard/index.html Typing with Carmen - Level 3: http://www.growing.course.com/level_3/keyboard/index.html Typing with Dwayne - Level 4: http://www.growing.course.com/level_4/keyboard/index.html Typing with Yasmin - Level 5: http://www.growing.course.com/level_5/keyboard/index.html Soccer demo - hard - words, symbols, numbers: http://www.customtyping.com/goalie_demo.htm Flash Typing - good tutor & game: http://flashtyping.com/demo.html Axis of Evil - really hard, but adolescent boys seem to like it: http://bluedojo.com/publisher2/webgames/31/game31w.php?id=31 Barracuda - whole words: http://www.powertyping.com/baracuda/baracuda.htm This is an interesting one -- it's in Japanese and English - kids like the anime intro to it: http://www.younganimal.com/airmaster/game/ Online typing test - scored, online high scores - letters only: http://hannu.daug.net/letters/index.php Star Wars Fighter Typing - letters, kinda hard, moves fast: http://www.brentsplanet.com/tie-p%20fighter.html Letters - http://www.project-design.com/PlayGame/typing_01.swf Bubbles - falling letters, timed, scored: http://www.typingmaster.com/general/java/bubbleapplet.asp?keys=abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz&duration=1&Submit=Play+Game Letter Speed Race - letters only, timed and scored: http://www.freewebs.com/weddell/findtheletter.html Font Folly - timed, letters, upper & lower - (hard to read sometimes): http://www.eyewire.com/magazine/columns/scott/fontfolly/ffolly.html SpiderMan Web of Words - it's a scrambled word game that can be used to practice typing -- you hafta wait for an ad to run before you can play, tho: http://zone.msn.com/en/spiderman2/game.htm Keyboarding Quiz: http://www.quia.com/rr/1220.html ********************************************************** *Very clever teaching typing class antics tips:* http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=edtech&month=0211&week =a&msg=y9OPRIjPwBOEj3AHvmX7ow&user=&pw More tips: http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/techtorial/techtorial028b.shtml ********************************************************** DOWNLOADS: Tux Typing 2 - if you only use one, this is the best free one: http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/download/ I also like Keyboard Master.Demo..not as well known, as it's made in Poland. http://www.nahliksoft.com/keybmas.html The full version has a bunch of cool pictures that you uncover, piece by piece as you type the words correctly -- the demo, unfortunately, has a tasteful art nude as the picture. They sent me a different demo file with puppies & hamsters when I asked for it -- I'll send it to anyone who wants it, or they'll probably send it to you. Mario Brothers - great DOS program, keeps data on each student http://www.ncs-tech.org/?p=239 TypeBlaster Game Demo download - fun game, but demo doesn't run that long. Be sure to read directions - the interface isn't very intuitive: http://www.typeblaster.com/ Keyboarder - made by adolescent boys for adolescent boys -- pretty fun: http://firefang.com/downloads/ Four typing games made with Game Maker -- again, games made by boys for boys, but they're good: AlphaBubbles - can be made to be very easy -- real cute: http://www.blackratstudios.com/games3.html TypeStriker - whole words, made with Game Maker: http://www.sheepsheet.com/_gaming/typestriker/typestriker.htm TypoGun - whole words, made with Game Maker: http://www.sheepsheet.com/_gaming/typogun/typogun.htm GemTyper - simple, made with Game Maker http://forums.gamemaker.nl/lofiversion/index.php?t97289.html Garfield's Typing Pal Demo - not as much fun as you'd think it would be; kinda boring for younger kids, but good opening tutorial. The Cookie Catch game is a standalone executable hidden in the folder there -- I'm using just that game and not the whole program with my afterschool kids: http://www.demarque.com/demarque/english/shopping/visualiser.asp?41 10 Finger Breakout -- fun, difficult game of Breakout where you type the correct letter to move the paddle: http://www.giletech.com/Typing-Tutor.htm Typing of the Dead Demo - it's kinda violent, but it's green blood zombie violent -- don't know what a school district would say about it, but I gave it to my kids at home. Note that there are several choices in the demo -- the story, the arcade version, etc., to choose from the opening menu - it's kinda hard to see: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/puzzle/typingofthedead/news_2814312.html All the Right Type Demo: http://www.ingenuityworks.com/iworks/main/products/demo_downloads/list/ English Type Demo: http://www.englishtypejunior.com/Englishtypejunior.htm Touch typing game demos: http://www.tutor-typing.com/typing_games.asp Lee Ann Lacy Multimedia Outreach Educator Austin Children's Museum 201 Colorado Street Austin, Texas 78701 Free Technology Lesson Plans... http://www.auntlee.com/museum/lessonplans.htm Our mission is to inspire young children and the adults in their lives to experience the joy of learning through the power of constructive play. --- Edtech Archives, posting guidelines and other information are at: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb Please include your name, email address, and school or professional affiliation in each posting. 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