Mouse+Skills

 **Mouse Skills** This page contains links that may be useful for students learning to use a mouse or alternative input device.

[] Symbaloo site for mouse sites [] This is a great website. It provides good information on basic mousing skills. You can change the items to click on as well as the size. [] This is a wonderful site. There are some great online books. You can click on the words and the computer says them as well as moves through the books by clicking on arrows. [] This is a coloring page. You click on a picture. Then click on the colors and click on the areas of the picture you want that color. [] You can use some of the features of this site without purchasing a membership. (Some schools are members to this site so you might want to ask your school librarian.) [] More online books that use mousing. [] If your student likes teletubbies this is the place! There are a variety of simple mousing activities. Tubby Custard Bubbles is a nice one if you have a student working on moving and manipulating the mouse and then clicking. [] This is a great little page with mousing practice. There are online practice activities or downloadable activities. [] This is similar to the program above. Very simple mousing practice with few distractions.

Shambles provides a list of various Internet sites with links for providing skills in using a mouse. Also- links for specifically designed for left handers! []

This is a simple and fun game to practice basic mouse skills. You do not have to be able to click at the initial stage. []

[] Simple online activities to practice a variety of mousing techniques.