Articles - April 8, 2020Featured How to Clean Your Keyboard Whether you work on a computer every day or only use one a couple of times a week, a good cleaning never hurts.
Tips - March 30, 2020Featured How to Get Your Child Started on Typing Pal Typing Pal’s Home Edition was specially developed to make it easy for parents to involve themselves in their child’s learning. Once your child starts Typing Pal’s training program, you will be able to supervise their work, identify areas that need improving, and provide the necessary encouragement.
Articles - March 10, 2020Featured Dvorak: Master of the Keyboard At the beginning of the 1930s, American researchers August Dvorak and William Dealey decided to create a more ergonomic alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. They place the comfort of the user at the centre of their work. The Dvorak layout (Dvorak Simplified Keyboard or DSK) was born and was then adapted for languages other than English.
Articles - February 19, 2020Featured Five Bad Typing Habits To Avoid It’s very easy to acquire bad habits when you are learning to type. Watch out for these five!
Tips - February 5, 2020Featured Assessing Your Students’ Progress In order to get an idea of your students’ progress, we suggest evaluating their typing ability at the beginning and at the end of the training program by using Typing Pal’s Initial Test and Final Test.
Tips - January 9, 2020Featured A Playful Exploration of the Keyboard for Elementary Students — Three Motivational Classroom Activities It’s no secret. Knowing how to type is an essential skill in today’s world. Your students are pros at tapping away on their smartphones, but are they just as sure-handed on a keyboard? The key to helping them develop their typing technique is regular practice in the classroom.
Articles - November 14, 2019Featured Tips for Improving Your Typing Skills How do you type on the computer? Do you use all your fingers or just your index fingers? With the help of the tips below and a little practice, anyone can acquire a good typing method!
Tips - November 6, 2019Featured Keeping Parents Updated on Their Child’s Progress Parents are crucial in helping their children persevere and succeed at school. A new feature of Typing Pal — School Edition is a report that allows parents to follow their children’s progress in class more easily.
Tips - October 31, 2019Featured For Halloween, Typing Pal Takes a Dark Turn… Dark mode will be offered as of today for Typing Pal’s Home and Personal Editions. (It will be available for the School Edition in the summer of 2020.) Try it out—if you’re not too scared of the dark, that is. 🙂
