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Learning Stenography
Stenography was traditionally taught in schools, and still is today. However, because of Open Steno, there are increasingly self-taught stenographers. Plover has everything you need to teach yourself stenography.
These sites aim to teach you steno, from the layout to the terminology to the strokes.
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Learn Plover! is a free online textbook by Zack Brown, based on his steno tutoring sessions with Mirabai Knight. It offers a step-by-step introduction to Plover for beginners, with practice material at the end of every chapter.
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Qwerty Steno is a fantastic resource which has a tutorial on steno theory written by Mike Neale of the Open Steno community.
These are drill sites used by stenographers.
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Drills created to practice the Learn Plover! materials, chapter-by-chapter. Requires Adobe Flash or Google Chrome.
If you want to eventually caption speakers, you will need to be able to take dictation.
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Steno Arcade Steno Arcade is a project funded by the Open Steno Project, developed by For All To Play. It contains Steno Hero, a game where you write lyrics in time with a singer and get graded on accuracy. You can create custom song files for use in the game by using wavelyric.
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YouTube
YouTube videos will offer a good start for dictation. You can find dictations on YouTube, as well as material designed for ESL students, and speeches by your favorite speaker.
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Television
Try captioning your favorite TV show once you are able to.
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CRH has some free dictation posts. Especially useful is the Magic Drill, for beginners and experts alike.
Sites not made for steno are not ideal for use with Plover, but they offer good quality practice material for the intermediate stenographer, or to judge your skills with a metric.
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Online realtime typing competition.
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Short test of most common words.