Tech Tip: Behappy.me

I've been using Canva tonight to make different graphics, but I thought I would try another site to see what my experience was like with it! I chose the Behappy.me site simply because I liked its name. It was probably simpler than Canva, but because of that, the options for what you can create are limited. It has a very narrow purpose, but it does that well. I found that you could easily make your quotes stand out more by playing with the line spacing the make different parts larger/smaller/etc. Overall, I like Canva better because of its versatility, but this is a great way to do a quick design for a quote!

(Created using Behappy.me)

Tech Tip: Fotor Collage

I decided to use Fotor this week to create a collage of some of my favorite things (which, coincidentally, are all related to ocean) to try and take a minute to relax. I'm super stressed going into this week so I thought this would be fun!

Typing Game Tech Tip

I started by playing the Ninja Cat game, which I thought was fun! I got frustrated a few times because the game wasn't picking up the letters I was typing so I would have to go back and redo it. I then played the TypingRace game which I liked a lot better since it was full sentences with capitals and the like. I've always really enjoyed typing and had fun during computer classes when they brought out those blackout covers for the keyboard. Everyone else groaned when we had to do that, but I thought it was fun, probably because my parents really emphasized being good at typing when I was at home from an early age.

Tech Tip: Typing Test

For this tech tip, I thought it would be interesting to take two typing tests, one on Key Hero and one on TypingTest. I've always deemed myself a fairly quick typer, so I wanted to see how I stacked up to the average! When I was a kid learning to type, my dad installed a bunch of typing games on my computer where you blasted aliens/popped balloons/etc. to try and help me get the hang of it.

Key Hero: I scored at a speed of 103.97 words per minute, with 96.94% accuracy.

TypingTest: I got a speed of 100 words per minute with 96% accuracy!

Not bad! This of course is just reading and retyping what I'm seeing, obviously I can't type this quickly if I'm having to come up with things on my own! These tests were very similar, both involving typing stories presented to you and making sure that you're following the same capitalization, punctuation, etc.