JumpStart Typing

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Review In the context of an Olympics event, this CD teaches the fundamentals of typing via 30 excellent arcade-style lessons. The goal is to earn power cards to unlock the trophy room where the team coach has been imprisoned! Cards are earned by fast and accurate typing. In the "extreme keyboarding" competition, kids type to compete for top scores in such events as foos ball, wall-climbing, snowboarding and skateboarding. The program carefully tracks kids' accuracy and speed, and the activities offer a nice mix of fun and well thought-out instruction. Both home and school testers enjoyed the program and felt that it really did help improve typing skills. Teaches: typing, keyboarding Age Range: 7, 8, 9, 10 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!"It's time for the universe's first Extreme Typing Competition, and Coach QWERTY wants the Sparks to bring home the gold. Rusty athletes can get in shape at the keyboard training center by drilling all 10 digits in speed and accuracy. This season's events include Roller Racing, Cliff Hanger, Trailblazer, and Keyboard Kicks--a fast-paced foosball game in which you type in the right letter combos to make your team members move. Likes: "I like how you snowboard while typing." Traci "I like how it helps you improve your typing, because in the future everything will be controlled by computers." Bruno Dislikes: "Cliffhanger was really hard to figure out." Kiah Rating:4/4 ©1999 MacAddict -- From MacAddict -- Subscribe now! Amazon.com Learn essential keyboarding skills, such as hand placement, correct posture, letter combinations, number and punctuation keys, and upper and lower case--and have fun at the same time. (Ages 7-10)