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  What it is: A podcast is a digital media recording that can be saved on and distributed over the Internet. How to use Podcasting in your classroom: Use a podcast to record students reading. This can be used for reading records, for pronunciation, and reading fluency. Students, teachers, and parents can listen to reading records recorded over the course of the school year for fluency and progress made. Podcasts can also be used to share news with students and families, guest speakers, student presentations, student produced podcasts, lessons, assessment, digital stories, motivation, auditory learners, celebrating student work, interactive media center, a tool to help struggling students, to provide a “window” to your classroom for parents, and to show student growth at parent teacher conferences. Tips: Podcasts can be created using several programs such as Apple’s Garageband (this application comes standard on Macintosh computers), Audacity which is a free open source software for recording and editing sounds, and My Podcast where podcasts can be recorded and hosted for free.

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Pac Man Typing with Typing Master

Posted by admin | Posted in Fun & Games, Middle/High School, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Typing, Websites | Posted on 15-09-2009

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What it is: Typing Masters has a great typing game that your students can play for free to increase their typing skills.  PacMan Typing gives students the familiar Pac Man game, instead of moving Pac Man with the arrow keys, students have to type letters to make him move.  The faster students can type, the higher their score will be.

How to integrate Pac Man Typing into the classroom: Pac Man Typing is a great motivating typing game.  Students will want to build up their touch typing skills to master this game.  Hold a friendly competition in your class to see who can get high score in Pac Man Typing.  This is another site that will build student typing skills through a fun game.

Tips: I learned about Pac Man Typing this morning on Twitter from @SheilaT, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…my PLN is the best!

Related Resources: Keyboard Climber, Typing WebNovel Games- FlasheLearningDance Mat Typing

Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Pac Man Typing in your classroom.

Comments (1)

Hahaha. Fun. I have played Math Pac Man, but not typing Pac Man. Where will it all end??

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