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It seems like just yesterday that I was listening to Alice Cooper screaming "School's out for the summer" on my local radio station, yet it seems to be school time once again for most kids.
My own school record was, um, less than sterling, but along came spell check and calculators which made up for a lot of my sleeping in class.
I've never run into the situation where Latin or Algebra was all that necessary in my adult life but there is one class that I've never regretted taking...typing. I took it quite by accident. I had an extra class opening one semester that I had to fill and my counselor, wisely sensing that I was destined for a lifetime of typing, tossed me in a typing class.
Wow, was that good luck. Who was to know that computers would develop into such an everyday tool and typing skills would come in so handy. I got my first job because I was able to pass a typing test.
In the future we may be talking to our computers or even have a direct link to our brains, but typing skills are something that I believe will be an incredibly valuable skill for the foreseeable future.
Sharpen up your skills or give your child a leg up. Here are my picks for a number of typing tutors for ages 3 to 99.
Animated Beginning Typing
Animated Typing is for the Pre-K through 3 grade set with a series of games that teaches proper fingering and is tons of fun for a young kid with sound effects and animation.
The "Jumping Letters" drill can be set for any pace. Each time the correct letter is selected an animated "thingie", chosen by the user, removes the letter.
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The "Letter Drill" game allows students to choose letters to practice. At the end of the drill a report is generated with words per minute, errors and time. A cartoon is played as a reward.
"Flying Letters" is the most advanced and is an arcade style game. The student sets the speed of the game, it generates a report at the end and a funny animation is the reward.
Animated Beginning Typing is from Flix Productions and I've seen and used all of their products. Not only is the animation fun but they really seemed to speak directly to kids. A special favorite is Animated Alphabet but don't get me wrong, all of their products are winners.
All Flix Productions programs use a non-Windows GUI so they'll run on any version of Windows.
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TypingMaster 2002
TypingMaster goes to the next step after beginning typing. It's hard for me to judge the correct age level, but it would certainly handle any skill level. It offers a series of "courses" ranging from complete training, numeric keyboard training, a refresher course, special symbols and training for typists. Since I'm already a pretty good typist I was especially impressed by the typing analysis which detected my weaknesses when using other Windows applications and based on that, developed drills focused on those weaknesses.
It also includes a review, text exercises and typing tests with a variety of different texts.
Several games are included and I'd challenge even the best typist to go up against it when it really gets cranking:
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So when you're ready to start learning or improve your skills for all ages, these are two guys you'll want to check out. -- Don Watkins
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