Thanks to Arnold for his query about how to improve typing skills. I've done some detective work on Google this morning and found some fun tools to explore around improving your typing.
I also would like to profile some of the resources at UniSA to demonstrate what support is available to hone your online skills. (You might be surprised at what is on offer!)
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Dance mat typing was developed by the BBC for children. It's lots of fun, but obviously orientated towards the kids.
This typing tutor requires quite a bit of clicking around but once you get the hang of it, it's quite good.
Typeonline.co.uk is the most intuitive tool I found in my searches this morning. I rather like this one.
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Within UniSA there are some other resources to hone your online skills. Learningfast is very popular. What I really like about this one is that you can learn functions as you need them like using graphs in Excel or heading styles in Word. There are some self-paced tutorials around most Office applications, including PowerPoint.
Software Help has a top ten tips approach and Online Learning has some general information aboout using online applications (such as discussion) at the University of South Australia.
Do post your suggestions, if you find any useful sites either within UniSA or from other organisations. Also feel free to appraise these resources - let us know how you find them.
Have fun.
2 comments:
Hello Andrea,
thank you for this list! Could you please add my application: 10-fast-fingers.com - I think it would be helpful for your visitors :)
Hi webworker
Many thanks for this. I just had a go and it's really easy to use, so I am happy to give it the 'rubber stamp' for our Science Writers at the Mawson Lakes campus of UniSA.
There's also this one from the Online Advisers at UniSA:
http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm
You might like to add yours to the listing if you haven't already.
Now I'm expecting all of our Writing in the Sciences community to be touch typists!!!!
Do feel free to post up your evaluations of these typing tutors.
Cheers
Andrea
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