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Keyboarding Research

Started this discussion. Last reply by Gary Stager, Ph.D. Mar 10. 2 Replies

Great "extra time" websites?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Scott Wooddell Mar 13. 10 Replies

 

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Scott Wooddell replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?
"I like to use some of the resources from Mathbits.com There is also some computer programming at this site if students are interested."
Mar 13
Richard Wood replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?
"Try this fun free resource for spelling practice & school fundraising http://www.spellathon.net"
Mar 13
Patty Lewis replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?
"http://www.coolmath-games.com/ has tonns of different activities for all different ages"
Mar 13
Kate Mason replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?
"http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ ; This website can be used for almost any subject/grade level.  They have a lot of interactive games and activities.  My students enjoy all of the options!"
Mar 12
Kate Mason replied to Phil's discussion Great "extra time" websites?
"My students also LOVE this website.  They love to create writing pieces, even my students that hate to write."
Mar 12
Gary Stager, Ph.D. replied to Phil's discussion Keyboarding Research
"I humbly recommend you consider and share this literature review on keyboarding instruction - http://stager.tv/blog/?p=2604 Be sure to note the publication date."
Mar 10
S.Lister replied to Phil's discussion Keyboarding Research
"Hi there, A while back I created a voice thread to highlight some of the research about Keyboarding in the Primary grades - you can find it here: http://voicethread.com/share/766732/ Hope this helps!"
Mar 10
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Keyboarding Research

As I attempt to express the importance of keyboarding to my students I am wondering if there is research out there explaining the financial benefits of the skill.Several years ago I heard somewhere that people who know how to keyboard correctly are more likely to go to college, and make $10-15 more per hour than someone who does not.I cannot find this research again though. Does anyone have this research or know where it may be? I have looked and looked, but to no avail.Thanks,Phil See More
Mar 10

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At 12:42am on December 27, 2008, Andy Pethan said…
Hello,

I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this virtual Ning network is no exception. My name is Andy Pethan. I am a 21 year old student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin students (near Boston) who is taking a year off to pursue our interests in education, entrepreneurship, design and technology, bringing us to the logical project of a business that designs collaborative software for schools! I found you in a search for "middle school", and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested. Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

We are working under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media and tools: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum, and internet-based software. We hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. More importantly, and unlike many of our competitors, our software will empower teachers to better integrate higher level thinking skills, individualized learning, goal setting, reflection, and effective feedback and evaluation. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools and individual teachers will want to use to improve their students' learning in and out of the classroom.

Our team is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start. Note that winning this contest will raise $10,000, a large and useful sum of money for a web-based company running on “sweat equity” and minimal costs.

Feel free to email me back, post on my profile, check out alightlearning.com, or do anything you like!

Thanks,
Andy Pethan
rockychat3@gmail.com
 
 
 

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