Gamequarium - Keying games

Let's be honest, sometimes keyboarding is boring.

In Business Ed we are taught to go through the keys with the students and we often dictate the keys as they type them.

"AAA...SSS...DDD...FFF" is the first half of home row. That is a good way to help the kids improve and you know what they (should) type but it can sometimes lose the kids. "It's BORING Mr. Burt" they've said.

So in an attempt to help reduce the students being bored, there are several online typing games that can be used to help them improve and some of them can be found at the Gamequarium.

Most of the games are free and all similar in that they range from easy to hard for students of varying skill levels. Alphattack is one such game where the students have to hit the key for the corresponding letter shown on a falling bomb to prevent it from exploding.

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There is no specific curriculum like per se, but it is still a highly useful tool for keeping students engaged in the work.

For use in a classroom, this is a fun way to warm the students up, reward them for positive behaviour or just as an exercise if the students have completed an assignment and are sitting around.

If you wanted to get a link to the Evergreen curriculum you could use a keyboarding game once the all the alpha keys have been covered in Module 2: Learning to Keyboard to Touch.