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Zoom Type : Touch Type in Just 5 Days (Large Print)
Zoom Type Touch Type in Just 5 Days - Large Print Author:Renee Ellison Problem — 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 syste... more »m? 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.
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?
New idea
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.« less