Why Zoom-Type works so well:
Touch-typing is taught far too late and it takes far too long to learn. Research shows that kids benefit academically from using the computer at an early age, but the stumbling block remains that their typing skills lag far behind. One might ask, why can't they just get along with the hunt and peck system? Close examination reveals the reason: without touch typing there is a substantial loss in time and efficiency because of constant head movement to relocate between letters. There's simply a ceiling on how fast a "hunter and pecker" can go. Test your typing speed and get some practice typing, using some free online typing tests and typing games.
Today's "new" computer typing programs are essentially old approaches with gimmicks. In addition, many of these programs attempt too much, requiring reading or word processing skills along with typing. This bogs down the learning process and produces computer users who still do not know how to touch-type, much less do it rapidly. Speed keyboarding is the missing skill. It alone boosts productivity for a lifetime. Furthermore, why buy a program that is software dependant (it may be obsolete in a few years) when for less money you can buy a totally portable system?
Zoom-Type is radically different in its pedagogical underpinnings. It yields fast, solid results. Zoom Type is a powerful breakthrough in teaching touch-typing using the right brain as well as the left. In contrast to old approaches where letters are acquired gradually, one at a time, Zoom Type enlists the right brain to take repeated pictures of the entire keyboard every time. Letters appear and disappear all over the keyboard, forcing the mind to recall what was seen and where. The musical finger march trains the fingers to advance plan and to automate the movements needed in actual typing.
Success!
With the Zoom Type method, touch typing is fully imprinted in the autonomic nervous systems and functions as a natural reflex, in just five days. During the subsequent weeks, keyboarding speed soars through concentrated one-minute typing contests.
Why is Zoom-Type a superior method for learning how to touch-type?
The reason both the Zoom-Type and Quick Piano programs by Renee Ellison work so well is their three distinctive aspects, which you will observe as you start to use them:
(1) Spaced repetition -- the skill is best learned in many short sessions rather than one long one.
(2) Right brain -- multi-sensory engagement, using the picture side of the brain, is the fastest route to the mastery of a new skill.
(3) Splintered skills -- you learn each skill separately, then when you put them together the brain jumps the synapses. For example, the snapshot pages teach the locations of the letters/ the keyboard notes. The practice keyboards train the reach and retract for the domain of each finger typing, and for playing the 24 major and minor piano chords. And the musical finger march audio CD that accompanies the Zoom-Type book trains the fingers in the appropriate reach and retract.
Testimonials
Here's what users have been saying about the Zoom-Type method of learning
how to speed-type! Also, click here to read an
online review by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.
Kit contents: the wire-bound volume includes the user manual, progress charts, practice keyboard, all of the snapshot pages, and practice word lists (the Doltch 220 common words) and (for more practice) words to Character Traits songs. For even further practice to increase your typing speed we have placed online a list of 400 most frequently used words, free for you to print out from http://www.homeschoolhowtos.com/400MostCommonWordsTypingList.pdf The Zoom-Type kit also includes a Musical inger March audio CD (7 lessons in nearly 39 minutes) that is especially recommended for typing studentsat the 3rd grade level and below, because the narration walks a young student through the entire program.
Cost: $29.95
Or, get a 20% discount:
save $12, and save on shipping, by buying both the
typing and the piano courses
at the same time! ($47.90 plus s/h)
Order this new
supplemental item (Product #1N) for just $5 more: Speedy 10-Key! It's
a little kit for learning the 10-key numbers on the side of your keyboard.
Renee developed this at the suggestion of a homeschool mom who noted that this
is a required skill in some accounting/ book-keeping classes. The mom reported
that "I actually lost a great job opportunity because I did not know this 10-key
'stuff', and I don't want my children to lose an opportunity."
Speedy 10-Key is also
available for you to print out at your own computer as an E-Book.
P.S. If you don't already have a digital timer, you can buy one at a discount department store or order a tabletimer online from http://www.typingtutorcourse.com/Links.htm -- it's handy for self-timing students' one-minute typing contests that are at the end of the Zoom-Type course.
~~~Zoom-Type sells for $29.95 plus $4.50 for shipping and handling (plus 2.9% product sales tax if you're inside Colorado). Only one is needed per family. Good for ages 4 to 94!~~~
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Questions/ want to order by phone? send an email to crossover@ellison.net (this is our prefered method of communication) or call (970) 385-1809 (Monday-Friday).
***Computer keyboards are the pencils of the future! ***** Fast keyboarding is the skill of the future.**
