Keyboarding 2: Leveling up Typing Skills With Games and Nearpod Activities!

If your learner enjoyed my Keyboarding for beginners class (or another class in which YOUR LEARNER HAS ALREADY LEARNED FINGER PLACEMENT and is beginning to memorize the keyboard), your learner will love this class! How do I know? Because I actually loved creating it! Learners will have MORE fun, enjoy more ENJOYABLE Nearpod activity slides, and explore new THEMES each week! 

This is an interactive FLEX course which includes video/audio instruction within the NEARPOD SLIDES. This 5-week course will enforce advanced keyboarding speed and skills. I also have this class available in a 1-week condensed "boot camp" style class for holiday weeks (weekly lessons are uploaded to the classroom over a week long period, instead of a 5-week period).

Benefits of combining a FLEX format with Nearpod:
*type the drills at your own pace
*parents and teachers can monitor activity slides/drills
*can break the lesson up as you see fit (doesn't have to be done all in one sitting - just start where you left off in Nearpod)

This is a brand new level-2 course but you can see the 5-STAR REVIEWS on my level-1 keyboarding classes! 

Each Monday you will receive a post from me in the Outschool classroom which will contain links to that week's material. This will include a set of interactive slides containing audio instruction, drills, and games (through nearpod.com). The drills will be broken up with various activities such as memory games, virtual field trips, Time to Climb (a fun timed quiz), drag-and-drop activities, and drawing slides within Nearpod. We will also play more advanced games! 


SYLLABUS:

Week 1:

1. Keyboard review
2. Typing speed test
3. Time to Climb - match fingers with letter keys
4. Sentence drills (circus/clown theme!)
5. Time to Climb - match fingers with # keys
6. Number drills 
7. Paragraph drill (the circus!)
8. Game time!
(this class will include a review video and a keyboard chart handout)

Week 2: 

1. Time to Climb - match letters and fingers
2. Long-word drills (and funny animal sounds!)
3. Drag and Drop - one-handed words!
4. Paragraph drill
5. Game time!

Week 3: 

1. Time to Climb - words in rows
2. Long-word drills (Sports Teams!)
3. Time to Climb - words in rows
4. Paragraph drill
5. Game time!

Week 4: 

1. Time to Climb - keyboard quiz!
2. Word and number drills (hurricanes!)
3. Long-sentence drills (tornadoes!)
4. Draw-it slide: sentence typing (natural disasters!)
5. Paragraph drill (write your own)
6. Game time!

Week 5: 

1. Time to Climb - keyboard quiz!
2. Word and sentence drills (sea animals!)
3. Drag-and-drop: sentence typing (sea animals)
4. Paragraph drills (copy, and write your own)
5. Final Typing Speed Test
6. Game time!
(this class will include a "keyboard shortcut" handout)