Nitro Type: Keyboarding Skills

Enhance Typing Skills with Nitro Type

101 Days of Free Tech for Teachers, Day 67
Improve your students’ typing skills with Nitro Type. This free site allows students to play a variety of fun racing games that are all geared towards enhancing student keyboarding skills of all grade levels. Students are able to compete against their friends, classmates, and other players from around the world, or the students can form teams to compete against each other. Additional features of Nitro Type include the ability to earn new race cars, track their progress, and unlock various achievements.

How We Decide Which Free Tech Tools to Feature
Yup, there are thousands of apps, tools, services, websites, and other offerings — many free — designed for teachers and students. So, how do we sort through all of those to feature the ones which are most useful and interesting? Well… we start by sorting through thousands of these things… then we talk to the presenters in the SimpleK12 Teacher Learning Community and watch their videos closely… then we talk to many of the members in the Teacher Learning Community, teachers just like you who are using these apps and tools day in and day out. We’ve been doing this for over 30 years and have, in that time, developed a sense for what’s good and bad. Have we missed something that we should feature here? Most certainly. So, let us know in the Comments section what we should take a look at and we’ll throw ’em into the hopper.

Carolina Fransen is the EdTech Apps and Tools Editor at SimpleK12.com. She writes regularly about the use of educational technology in K-12 classrooms. If you have an app, tool, website, or service that you think we should know about, please send your information or tip to editor@simplek12.com.