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1. Business Card Lesson Plan - Create your own business card in this step-by-step lesson.
2. Computer Literacy 101 - Jan Smith's Computer Basics
3. Computer Quizzes - computer skills tests, practices and more
4. Computer Science Career Guide - explore careers in Computer Science
5. Computer Skills Practice Hotlist - Practice your computer skills testing with these numerous links
6. Desktop Publishing Task - Lesson plan - project resources available with directions on completing task.
7. Design and Technology - Bitesize information that students need to understand in dealing with design and technology. Many topic areas
8. Ergonomics Guidelines for Computer use by Children -
9. History of Typewriters - The Classic Typewriter Page - Learn how the typewriter was developed!
10. Keyboarding lesson plans - by Tonya Skinner
11. Lesson Plans - Computers and Technology
12. Lesson Plans - Computers - from Teach-nology
13. Packetville - "Use of technologies in different careers, girls and tech, understanding of how the Internet works, and how to help others using technology. There are
    sections in Packetville for teachers, students, parents, and club advisors"
14. Practice Materials for the NC Test of Computer Skills - [this link opens on a new page] Quia Tests
15. RSI Exercises - "Some yoga-based exercises which you can do during the course of the day to help prevent carpal tunnel and repetitive stress injuries"
16. Technical Writing - Understanding the concept of writing -instructions are those step-by-step explanations of how to do something: how to build, operate,
    repair, or maintain things.
17. Technology advice for the novice
18. Typing Resources

    1. Broken Keyboard - See if you can drag each letter where it belongs on the keyboard.
    2. Dance Mat Typing - Fun way to learn to type by BBC
    3. Easy Typing Games from Aunt Lee - Each picture is a link to an easy typing game, but there are no annotations on what to expect at the site where
       the link takes you.
    4. Harder Typing Games from Aunt Lee - Just like the game list above, each picture is a link to an easy typing game, but there are no annotations on what
       to expect at the site where the link takes you.
    5. Keyboard Challenge - Click and drag letters to their correct places. Only the letters in the right spots will stay! Choose the keyboard design you like and then click on it to begin
    6. Test Your Typing On-line - Now you can test your typing skills quickly and easily within your web browser with TypingMaster's On.line Typing Test. Based on the short text typing sample given during the test, this Java(TM) applet will estimate your typing skills including typing speed, accuracy and
       net speed. You can also receive test results directly to your Email address.
    7. Touch Typing - Free Program that lets you exercise and learn Touch Typing. (from senselang.com)
    8. Type Online - a free online touch typing course in five lessons
    9. Typing - Learn2Type - lessons and quizzes [registration is required, but it is free]
    10. Typing with Al Bunny - [this link opens on a new page] Test online, or download this typing game.
    11. Typing - Cool Breeze Typing Test
    12. Typing - Mr Kent's Typing Test
    13. Typing - Type Masta Typing Test
    14. Typing - Computer circus Webquest on learning to type
    15. Typing - Axis of Evil - practice your typing skills and play a game
    16. Typing - practice online; links for free online typing sites.
    17. Typing - Nimble Fingers
    18. Typing - Bubbles - type the letters before the bubbles pop
    19. Typing Tutor - practice keyboarding skills
    20. Typing - Keyboard Exercises - exercises for beginning typists (click on "keyboard exercises and TEKS objectives")
    21. Typing Practice - online free keyboarding practice
    22. Krazy Keyboarding for Kids - Practice your typing here.
    23. Typing with Katie - For primary students - Level K [select Typing with Katie from the index]
    24. Typing with Burton - For primary students - Level 1 [select Typing with Burton from the index]
    25. Typing with Booker - For primary students - Level 2
    26. Typing with Carmen - For primary students - Level 3
    27. Typing with Dwayne - For primary students - Level 4
    28. Typing with Yasim - For primary students - Level 5
19. Word Processing Lessons