T+ype+Across+Texas+Pre-Trial

Interpreting Student Data This lesson was designed to have students practice keyboarding drills typing sentences that are timed. The students will create a kidspiration graphic account for measuring the words per minute typed. To begin the project students did and internet search and found a map of Texas with the major cities and saved to their computers in order to import into Kidspiration. Next they opened a blank word processing document to type sentences projected by the teacher. Students were timed and times were noted. This project will be on going as we continue to keyboard across Texas. Students typed sentences for 1 minute time limit. Because we are just beginning this trial and we are documenting it on a map we imported our graphic of the map of Texas into kidspiration and placed a place mark at our beginning point. Students save their document for future documentation of words typed per minute. Students marked where they began and where they ended upon completion of the first sentence. We will add words per minute typed in our next session. Because this was the first type we did this type of activity it took time for the students to understand just want we were doing. I used ITALC and took screen shots of our computer screen and also took screen shots of individual student screens picking random computers for a sampling of how this works. I also took screen shots of their imported graphic and place marks. The students were excited that we were doing keyboarding in a different way and wanted to see the screen shots of each computer. The next time I begin an assignment like this I will do additional preparation before hand such as get the students to import graphics ahead of time and set up their kidspiration graphic organizer. Overall I felt like the project went well and the fact that the kids were excited about helping me with my assignment made it all the more effective. I will do this again with my students next week now that we understand what we are doing, I may change from kidspiration to powerpoint because the ease of adding graphics. Screen shot of all computers in use, black screens are idle computers.