It wasn`t that long ago that no self-respecting executives would admit knowing their way around a computer keyboard. Today, those same execs are spending oodles of time and money on personal computers ...

In the early ‘90s, I was an elementary school librarian and an adjacent computer lab was part of my domain. Wanting to prepare our fifth graders to become more fluent writers, we ran them through a ...

Years ago, back in the days when there were "mainframe" computers but very few "home" computers, a typing teacher brought her brand of instruction to the home-computer monitor. It was late 1987, and ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teachers are frustrated by the glut of free keyboarding programs that are not designed for the way they teach and often cannot adapt to student progress. They see ...

Carol Parker is grateful that her school has supported her efforts to offer students keyboarding instruction. The assistant principal at Tennessee’s Rockvale Middle School has witnessed firsthand how ...

Mavis Beacon the teaching guru has been around for a long time, so long in fact, that her teaching typing software is in its fifteenth version. Over that time the software has grown to become the ...

A number of years ago, the Lounge helped out one of my wife's students with suggestions for disabled typing. Well the new student does have one hand instead of none and they are looking at options on ...

Once, typing was a class largely reserved for college-bound high school students, who needed the skill to turn out term papers at the university level. But that was before the dawn of the computer age ...

Third-grader Tycho Sedlachek throws his hands up victoriously as he finishes his typing test. It shows he has improved his score for accuracy and speed, and that’s good news, since he and his peers at ...