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BBC Typing School

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A good resource addressed to younger people and part of the BBC’s Schools programming.

BBC Computer Tutor

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Computer Tutor from the BBC website trains you on both mouse and keyboard and, to make things more fun, it’s set in 'Game Show World', a theme park about TV game shows.

Alison Touch Typing Training

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A free training course but you must register to use it. ALISON* claims to be the world's leading free online learning resource for basic and essential workplace skills and all courses are accessible for free to individual learners.  Read more

UK.Gov Online Courses

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The learner needs to register to use these basic free online courses. Lots available, including online shopping, using digital camera etc. Key typing into the search box to access keyboard skills.

Typing Tutor

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Claims that you can type 10 times faster touch typing than using two fingers. A free trial and then $7 (under £5) for the course, which you can instal on your computer or log into on an online account.

Type Online

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A good basic free tutorial once you understand how to start the exercises.

Analytical Eye Technologies

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Analytical Eye Technologies’ provides free zip files with their typing course to download. Beginners may need help downloading files. Has had over 100,000 downloads in just a year.

Typing Soft

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Another typing tutor which also offers an alternative approach, thinking about avoiding repetitive strain injury, which some may find better.

Also has an extensive American.list of freeware and shareware some of which has to be paid for:

http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htm

Sense-Lang

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An excellent course - easy to get started and learn to type quickly.

Power Typing

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Uses a traditional approach to develop skills.

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11 February 2019 - What's new

February 2019
  • ‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies... I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it.
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The Moth Short Story Prize 2019

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Closing date: 
30 June 2019
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Open to any writer over 16 from anywhere in the world Entry fee €15 per story
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1st prize €3,000, 2nd prize week-long writing retreat at Circle of Misse in France plus €250 travel stipend and 3rd prize €1,000

This year's judge is Kit de Waal.

The Prize is open to anyone (over 16), as long as the work is original and previously unpublished. There is a word limit of 5,000 words.

The winners will be announced in September 2019 and all three stories will appear in the autumn issue of the Morh Magazine.  Read more

'Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.'

— Anne Lamott

"Why am I writing this?"

11 February 2019

‘I never planned to be a writer. It is a very odd way to make a living. Just telling lies...

I do have a visceral sense of breaking through the shell of something when I walk into my study in the morning. Now I just go and do it. Sometimes it doesn't go well, but most often, I'll look up and it's time for lunch and I don't know what happened...  Read more