{"id":196,"date":"2015-12-06T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T20:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/?p=196"},"modified":"2015-12-07T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T12:39:56","slug":"how-to-teach-keyboarding-typingclubs-leaderboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/2015\/12\/06\/how-to-teach-keyboarding-typingclubs-leaderboard\/","title":{"rendered":"How to teach keyboarding: TypingClub&#8217;s Leaderboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2015\/12\/12.7.15.typingclub.download.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-199\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2015\/12\/12.7.15.typingclub.download.jpg\" alt=\"12.7.15.typingclub.download\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2015\/12\/12.7.15.typingclub.download.jpg 160w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/937\/2015\/12\/12.7.15.typingclub.download-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although Typing Club only hangs on to student typing progress for thirty days, the ad&#8217;s are less distracting. (Many of the ad&#8217;s seem to be geared to parents. The students don&#8217;t seem to notice these.) I&#8217;m using the Typing Club management now as a trial. It has a leaderboard that many students seem to love. It lists the top students and their keyboarding stat&#8217;s. (Like the old-school video games that listed the top scorers, TypingClub does this with the top 10, 15, or whole class.) The students are motivated by it, to the point where they&#8217;re happy to work on their drills so that they can bump others off the list. I think it has great potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Typing Club only hangs on to student typing progress for thirty days, the ad&#8217;s are less distracting. (Many of the ad&#8217;s seem to be geared to parents. The students don&#8217;t seem to notice these.) I&#8217;m using the Typing Club management now as a trial. It has a leaderboard that many students seem to love&#8230;. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/2015\/12\/06\/how-to-teach-keyboarding-typingclubs-leaderboard\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/libraryman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}