Technology Resources

Online Keyboarding Resources-

Do you have students who need some brush up on their keyboarding skills. Here are a few good online

websites to practice hitting the right keys!

typing club--free and set up an account to keep track of your progress.

http://www.sense-lang.org/--typing games and animated tutorials to improve your keyboarding speed.

www.typing.com-- set up a free account to track progress

http://www.typingtrainer.com/

Helpful hints for using your iPad- ● Dock your most frequently used apps on home page­­you may have up to six. ● Organize with folders! ● Side switch is for Rotation Lock or Mute­­set this in General Settings ● Take a screenshot by pressing the HOME & SLEEP/WAKE button at the same time ● Want to see if your iPad is getting full? Check your storage by going to Settings­­General­­Usage. Delete apps you’re not really using as you can always reinstall at a later time. ● You may want to turn off multitasking gestures­­under Settings ● Under Accessibility, turn on Speak Selection! This will enable your iPad to read text aloud in places where you can highlight text. ● Set Restrictions so kids can’t purchase apps or add ons! ● Think about using Guided Access if you want your child to stay in an app ● If your iPad freezes or is acting very strange do a Hard Reset. This means holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time. After about 10 seconds you will see the Apple Logo which means it is reset. ● Camera­­You can take a photo with the volume up button (good on iPhone when you want a steadier hand shooting in landscape!)

Contributions courtesy of R. Burden, AT Consultant,  Berrien RESA