Having fun learning to type, or learning a language...

Being able to touch-type (all fingers, no looking at the keyboard) is a skill you want to learn -- or teach yourself -- if you are going to spend a lot of time in front of a keyboard. It's so much more efficient...

Here's a fun little game for honing your typing skills, which allows you to blast words as they try and sneak up on you. It's not exactly methodical, but it's fun...

Learning to type properly is a bit like learning a language in some ways. Both require hard work to get the basics right. Learning to type "the cat sat on the mat" is a bit like learning "break, broke, broken".

Both should be fun. I think we sometimes jump to the conclusion that using technology is definitely going to be fun. We should plan lessons -- all lessons -- so that they are, but shouldn't just make that assumption. Maybe it's that going to the computer room is more fun than doing Headache Upper-Intermediate.

The game is more fun too, more fun than mindless repetition of "the cat sat on the mat". It's addictive. You want to play.

All lessons should be like that...