Implementation Training

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Implementation Training

• Understanding Typing Pal School

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Typing Pal School

• An external typing program for grades 3-8
• Complete typing course via the Internet
• Keyboarding skills (TA TEKS)
• Classroom Connect has licensed this software
• solely responsible for addressing customer
  support questions

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Typing Pal Student Edition

• Exercises
• exercises (letters and words) for a student
  course
• Practice
• contains real text exercises to expand learning
• Ergonomics
• information on the problems related to working
  with a screen and tips on healthy work habits
• Statistics
• student data on students typing performance
• Improvement
• typing exercises tailored to student needs

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Typing Pal School Lessons

• In addition to Typing Pals exercises, there are
  a total of six Connected Tech typing lessons.
• 3-5 -  Typing Pal Ergonomics, Typing Pal
  Exercises, Typing Pal Practice
• 6-8 -  Typing Pal Ergonomics, Typing Pal
  Exercises, Typing Pal Practice

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Accessing Typing Pal

• Teachers manage their Typing Pal groups through
  Connected Tech
• My Student Groups page
• Two options
• Create new usernames and passwords
• Manage students and settings
• When accessing Typing Pal, a second window
  appears.

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Typing Pal Skills

• To access Typing Pal as a teacher
• To login as a student
• To create student usernames and passwords
• To manage settings
• Group Settings
• Exercises
• Practice
• Statistics

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Typing Pal Teacher Edition
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Typing PalStudent Account

• When you create a new group within CT and enable
  individual student tracking
• CT automatically creates a Typing account for
  each student entered into the system.

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Manage Typing Pal Settings

• Click Manage Typing Pal Settings hyperlink

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Typing Pal Settings

• Welcome-Group Settings
• Exercises
• Practice
• Statistics

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Group Settings

• Group Settings include
• Group Name
• Group Description
• Speed Objective
• Memo

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Group Settings

• To change group settings, click the change group
  settings button

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Group Settings

• When all revisions have been made, click the
  Save Settings button.

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Group Settings Exercises

• Letters and words exercises

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Group Settings Practice

• Text exercises

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Group Settings Statistics

• You can access individual statistics for each
  student.

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Typing Pal Student Edition
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Using Typing Pal as a Student

• Access Typing Pal via a Connected Tech Lesson
• Login by typing in student username and password.

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Typing Pal Student Home Page

• Welcome
• Exercises
• Practice
• Ergonomics
• Statistics
• Improvement

Students can start by customizing their Typing
Pal.
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Customize Student Page

• Email address
• Change password
• Select Pal icon

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Student Exercises
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Results
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Student Practice
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Ergonomics
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Student Statistics
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Improvement
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Next Year Considerations

• There are special considerations a teacher must
  consider when going from one school year to the
  next school year.
• Option 1 Delete their existing groups and create
  new ones for the next school year.
• Option 2 Create new groups but leave the old
  ones intact.
• Option 3 Keep their groups but remove all the
  outdated students.

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Typing Pal Tips

• General Tips
• As a teacher, access Typing Pal via Connected
  Tech.
• As a student, access Typing Pal via Connected
  Tech.
• Tech Tips
• To see site animations, download Macromedia Flash
  player for each student station.

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Typing Pal Tips

• To complete the Exercises, your browser must
  support Java.
• To activate Java in Internet Explorer and
  Netscape
• Internet Explorer
• Select "Internet options" in the "Tools" menu.
• Select the "Advance" tab.
• Check the Java options.
• Click OK to have your changes take effect.
• Netscape
• Choose "Preferences" from the "Edit" menu.
• In the "Preferences" dialog box, click "Advanced"
  and make sure that Java and JavaScript are
  enabled.
• Click "OK" to have your changes take effect.

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Questions?