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Mar 28, 2025

Teenagers Computer Camps 2024 – Primary school children – Dundrum, Whitehall and Lucan

Exciting Computer Camps for Secondary School Teenagers in July 2025! Join us in Dublin’s Dundrum, Whitehall, and Lucan locations for tech-filled adventures. First Hour – Mastering Typing During the first hour, students focus on mastering touch typing techniques and improving typing speed, and accuracy through structured exercises and practice sessions. Second Hour – Essential Digital…

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Mar 09, 2015

20 simple and easy tips to get you touch typing!

Learn how to Touch Type fast – 20 simple and easy tips to get you touch typing! Touch typing is the ability to type without looking at the keyboard. It is a memory skills that requires practice and patience. Correct habit formation can help you learn how to touch type successfully. Ensure that you are…

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Mar 02, 2015

How long does it take to learn to touch type?

How long does it take to learn to touch type? It’s a question that I have been asked several times and to be honest it’s a difficult one to answer. A range of factors come into play in deciding how long it will take to learn how to touch type. Factors to consider is the…

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Feb 20, 2015

Should you teach your child how to touch type?

As every parent knows it is difficult to be a teacher and parent with your child. While a parents role is to nourish, encourage and motivate your child achievements. A teachers job is to to instill a routine of learning that helps a student learn their subject in the easiest way based on the…

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Feb 12, 2015

Why has the QWERTY keyboard survived compared to more easier input keyboard layouts?

Do you know why QWERTY keyboard has survived so long. We outline the history of keyboard layout to you. Mechanical Typewriters: 1870’s In 1872, Remington Company produced the first mechanical typewriter, patented by Latham Sholes. Typists soon mastered the skill to typing that they were going so fast that were jamming the typewriter keys which…

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Feb 09, 2015

Touch typing compared to voice recognition software

v’s Touch typing (also called keyboarding) is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. Specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. In today’s competitive job market, it is important for anyone applying for any job that involves the use of computers to learn to…

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Teenagers Computer Camps 2024 – Primary school children – Dundrum, Whitehall and Lucan

20 simple and easy tips to get you touch typing!

How long does it take to learn to touch type?

Should you teach your child how to touch type?

Why has the QWERTY keyboard survived compared to more easier input keyboard layouts?

Touch typing compared to voice recognition software