Online Typing Programs

Sometimes you may be working with a student on a computer that doesn't have a keyboarding program. Well, if you can use the computer to get to the Internet, then your student may be able to practice his/her typing skills. Try some of the links below, and let me know if any of them work for you. Note that in order for these websites to be accessible for students with low vision, you may need to use either Magnifier/Zoomtext on a PC or Zoom on a Mac. None of these programs provide any speech output, so they wouldn't be good alternatives for students with very limited or no vision.
1. Good basic typing program that shows accuracy and speed, as well as listing the errors. This is the link to lesson 1, but look on the left side, and you'll see other lesson links: Type Online
2. Links to several alternatives for typing: Keyboarding
3. A fun typing program for 2nd-4th graders (Note that characters have English accents): Dance Mat Typing
4. This site has online typing practice; gives speed and accuracy as the student is typing. No lessons per se; has real and nonsense words that assumes the typist already is familiar with touch-typing on a QWERTY keyboard. Typing at the speed of thought
If you'd like your high school student to get a little more practice typing, here's a link to Winter Concert, Across the Universe, and to Heath Ledger story (thanks Ruth, for the documents).

Link to Abacus Lessons

Although the page hasn't been updated in awhile, here's where to find some Abacus podcasts, as well as a few other good links about braille. Check it out:
http://lore.schindler.googlepages.com