I would think by 5th grade your typing skills be so advanced that you could type circles around me! While half the class is out today, let's work on improving our typing skills by playing a few games...
Visit this site and begin by working on the home keys.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
After 15 minutes of working on our typing skills, we will investigate another site that will create even more amazing Word Clouds. Check out. You can change the color scheme, the shape and the font. We will play around with it together in class.
www.tagxedo.com
Use your word list to see what you can create! You don't need to take a screen shot, Tagxedo allows you to save your work!
Visit this site and begin by working on the home keys.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
After 15 minutes of working on our typing skills, we will investigate another site that will create even more amazing Word Clouds. Check out. You can change the color scheme, the shape and the font. We will play around with it together in class.
www.tagxedo.com
Use your word list to see what you can create! You don't need to take a screen shot, Tagxedo allows you to save your work!