Touch Typing -- Techniques & Resources

• Definition of "touch-type" from Answers.com
• Technique of Touch Typing (typingsoft.com)
• Elementary Keyboarding Resources
• Materials for Classroom Keyboard Instruction (by Margaret J. Kay)
• Why should you Learn to Touch-Type?
• Keyboarding Instruction: Why? When? What? Who? How? (PowerPoint) -- Southeast Technical Institute
• Touch typing: from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
  • Typing
  • Hunt and peck typing
  • QWERTY
  • Dvorak Simplified Keyboard
• TechEncyclopedia: Touch-Typing
• Usability Glossary: touch typing
• Keyboarding Rationale
• The Evolution of the Keyboard (AlphaGrip)
• Keyboarding Info (Keyboarding Online @Crews Middle School) -- helps students identify drills, proper technique, their grading scale and speed goals
• Teach our kids to touch-type! by Jeff Davis
• Learn the Lost Art of Touch Typing, by Dick James
• Fat fingers by Jonathan Duffy, BBC News Magazine
• Hunt and Peck Typing (Tactus)
• When and How Should Keyboarding Be Taught in Elementary School? (PDF: 94K) by Shannon Fleming
• Keyboarding Skills: When Should They Be Taught? -- Education World
• The Status of Elementary Keyboarding -- a Longitudinal Study
• K-12 Keyboarding -- Utah State Office of Education:
• Mackay West State School's Typing Program
• Melioration and the Transition from Touch-Typing Training to Everyday Use (PDF: 176K) -- by Eldad Yechiam, Ido Erev, Vered Yehene, and Daniel Gopher
• Typewriting/Keyboarding Instruction in Elementary Schools by Lloyd W. Bartholome
• Who Should Teach Keyboarding andWhen Should It Be Taught? By Margaret J. Erthal
• Computers, Keyboarding, and First Grade Students by Kathy Gathers
• Keyboarding and Your Child: Keys to Success (The Paideia School, Atlanta GA)
• Keyboarding Presentations (PowerPoint) -- High Frequency Words (500) & Phrases (100), Keyboarding Methodology/Literacy, Quotes, Keyboarding Versions: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (Adults/Administrators/Counselors)
• Keyboarding Handout Masters: Elementary Keyboarding Timed Writings (Word / PDF / WordPerfect), Technique Checklist (Word), Miscellaneous
• Keyboarding Drill Sheets
• Keyboarding Materials: Poster Masters, Professionally Created Keyboard Charts, Keyboard Covers & Bookstands
• Keyboarding in Elementary Schools Curricular Issues by Stephen M. Shuller
• Elementary Technology Literacy Guide (PDF: 76 pages) -- Plano Independent School District
• Keyboarding, touch typing and computers: What students think, by David H McKinnon
  and Patrick C J Nolan
• Interview with Hajime Ohiwa, HRC Researcher: "... I'll start with keyboarding. Though keyboarding is very easy to learn, most people don't learn it..."
• Custom Typing Approach
• Multiply Learning Rates by 5 (Turnquist Foundation, MasterMind Typing)
• Beginners Guide - Learning to Touch Type (tips by Michael Bloch)
• Improving Computer Keyboarding Skills in Third Through Fifth Grade Students (by J. Troy Robinson)
• Dvorak Keyboard (A Different Way to Type: Writing for Children, by Diana Kimpton)
• Dvorak Keyboard (Let Your Fingers Do Less Walking, by Sander Rubin)
• What the Research Shows About Keyboarding (Total Learning Centers)
• Do Keyboarding Skills Help Job Performance? (by Marilynn Hawkins, Southeastern Louisiana University)
• Can you be a techie if you can't type? by Rebecca L. Weber (Christian Science Monitor, August 3, 2004)
• No-touch typing: It is now easy to type by eye (Economist.com)
• Letter: "Your advice about touch typing for all children with learning disabilities is not appropriate"
• Techniques For Teaching Williams People To Touch Type On The Computer (by Howard M. Lenhoff)
• AbilityNet
• Keyboarding Resources (LD Online Tech Guide) -- students and adults with learning disabilities
• Elementary Keyboarding Guide (Saskatchewan Education)
• The Development of Elementary Keyboarding Skills Using Typewriters and Computers (by Phil MacIntyre)
• Instructional Strategies of Teaching Keyboarding (State University of West Georgia)
• Keyboarding Skills for Middle School Student