Keyboard Champion vs Owlet

The focus of Keyboard Champion activities is to improve accuracy and speed. Keyboarding is a vital skill for today's students and tomorrow's successes in education, business and industry. A variety of lessons in Keyboard Champion help students master important skills in a fun an challenging way. Lessons begin with practicing the home row keys and gradually advance to typing full sentences. Accuracy is presented as a percent and words per minute are reported for each lesson. A special option allows the user to hide the keyboard labels so they can only rely on memory for recalling the position of the keys.

Owlet: Cube3 is an app that uses the Owlet CubeTower manipulative. Students create numbers by stacking small cubes in the columns of the CubeTower. Cube3 has five modes. Each corresponds to a different topic in place value: Tens, Hundreds, Money, Hundredths, and Thousandths. For each topic, there are five different activities. - Explore: Students place cubes in the CubeTower to create numbers that are shown on the tablet. - Make: Students are prompted to make a target number by placing cubes in the CubeTower. - Build: Students solve number puzzles. For example, students might be asked to build a number between 200 and 300 using 5 cubes. - Compare: Students create a number in the CubeTower and then compare it to a number generated by the app. - Round: Students use the CubeTower to round a number to a specified place.