Icaon;r toucj tuow

[heystasa]

Icaon;r toucj tuow 


Translation: I can't touch type.



uau foe loojins ai the lwixboard!


Translation: Yay for looking at the keyboard!

Comments

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

Really? Wow. I learned in year five, my teacher (who was also the school principal and the year 3-6 teacher - small school!) bought the school half a dozen copies of this kids touchtyping program, it was like a game where you had to type your way around Australia, riding different animals (like in the Outback you were riding along on an emu, in the rainforest it was a bat) and if you got chased by predators, you had to type really fast to get away.

So:

This is me touchtyping.

And:

This is mey looking at the keyboaurd.

[sjazzmreow.livejournal.com]

*blinks back*

You're worse looking at the keyboard than you are touchtyping? That's surprising, and quite funny to me.

We had Marvis Beacon on the macs when I was in primary. But only for a while, when I was in 2-3 I think, and I don't think our teachers considered typing that big a deal. We always got bored with the program - anyone could put their fingers on j,k,l, and ; and hit them one at a time, what was the point? we asked. Or that may have just been me; I think when I was little I was just a bit spacey. Still am, come to that. But in new and exciting ways...! The program you got sounds neat. I could so dig that now. I like bats.

Your school sounds just a wee bit smaller than mine. Year 4,5,6 became year 3,4,5,6 a few years ago.

st4e;;a owu
(="Stella out" - my god I'm bad at that)

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, because when I'm looking at the screen instead of at the keyboard I can see the mistakes I'm making (and there's lots, I'm just very fast with the backspace button) and fix them faster than when I'm looking at the keyboard.

We had Keywala Typequick, and it was so much fun that everyone wanted to play it in their 'free time' and get into competitions against each other.

My school had two classrooms when I was there, a K-2 and a 3-6 room. We had 31 kids when I was in year 6, 45 when I was in year 4, and when my sister was in year 5 and 6 in 2002 and 2003 they got down to 17 and 18 kids, which really sucked because the Dept. of Education takes away one of your teachers and one of your buildings when the school drops below 26 kids. They're back up to decent numbers now though, they've actually got a 3-4 class which is amazing for our region. And a comparatively big library, one of those biggish demountable ones.

I went from a 31-kid school in year 6 to a 1050-kid school in year 7 - that was fun. /sarcasm