{"id":888,"date":"2011-03-22T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etechplace.org\/fitzpatrick\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-03-22T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:10:50","slug":"typing-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/?p=888","title":{"rendered":"Typing Races?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rimes (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/techsavvyed\" target=\"_blank\">@techsavvyed<\/a>) and Jason Valade(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Jay2thaVee\" target=\"_blank\">@Jay2thaVee<\/a>) posted a blog post and video showing their creative use of Google Docs to conduct typing races.\u00a0 This could be a great way to motivate our kids to practice their typing skills while they work through their Type2Learn lessons.\u00a0 To read Ben&#8217;s full blog post click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techsavvyed.net\/?p=1299\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.techsavvyed.net\/?p=1299<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in setting something like this up in your classroom, let me know, we already have the Google Accounts set up.<\/p>\n<p>The video below is from YouTube.\u00a0 Teachers, you will have to override the filter to view it at school.\u00a0 It is definitely worth watching.\u00a0 Direct YouTube link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5e3pMBg3_o0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5e3pMBg3_o0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5e3pMBg3_o0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rimes (@techsavvyed) and Jason Valade(@Jay2thaVee) posted a blog post and video showing their creative use of Google Docs to conduct typing races.\u00a0 This could be a great way to motivate our kids to practice their typing skills while they work through their Type2Learn lessons.\u00a0 To read Ben&#8217;s full blog post click here: http:\/\/www.techsavvyed.net\/?p=1299 If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,9,5,18,8,36,17,7],"tags":[35,33],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3rd-grade","category-4th-grade","category-5th-grade","category-carver","category-examples","category-featured","category-glen-allen","category-harvie","category-headline","category-longdale","tag-google","tag-web2-0","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fjfitz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}