With well-designed, intentional prompts, keyboarding instruction can help students develop several skills at once.

I do. Learned to touch type during my summer school class at Shasta High, one of the few useful things I remember from all those years ago. Cliff Larimer, publisher of "The North State Voice," writes ...

Push-pull, push-pull, push-pull. Around and around and around. My pencil flew over the paper, trying to comply with the teacher’s exhortations. Those were some of the penmanship drills that I ...

Creative commons photo of a fourth grade class practicing their typing courtesy flickr user woodleywonderworks. A class that for decades was generally part of the middle school experience is now more ...

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. If you know this phrase, I know where you were in high school. You were in typing class with me, back when it was still called typing and not “keyboarding ...

I’m not sure how life would be different without Mrs. Calzacorto. But it would be different. I thought about Mrs. Calzacorto’s typing class as the kids from Merrillville High School asked about what ...

Despite having taken a typing class in eighth grade - on a manual typewriter - my typing skills still needed some work by the time I got my first PC in the early 90s. (I swear I am not a hundred years ...