Typing made fun for kids and adults!

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Typing Instructor Family pack is designed to make typing fun for the whole family. The two-in-one collection features Typing Instructor for Kids and Typing Instructor Deluxe. Typing Instructor for Kids is for children aged 7 to 12. It features a Typer Island Adventure where kids are motivated to learn to type. Typing Instructor Deluxe is aimed at adults and features a Travel Adventure to improve adult typing skills.  Typing Instructor has been a top seller for many years. Never before has there been a product for a family that lets both young children learn to type and improves adults' typing skills.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS

Educational

• Proven Typing Instruction Techniques
• Hundreds of Plans, Lessons, and Tests
• Standard or Split Keyboard and Keypad
• Step-by-Step Typing Plans

Motivating

• Collect Rewards and Accomplishments
• Storyville (for Kids) or 300+ Magazine Articles

Entertaining

• Fun Way to Learn
• Action Packed Challenges and Games

INCLUDES:

• Typing Instructor for Kids
• Typing Instructor Deluxe

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Typing Instructor for Kids
 
For 20 years, Typing Instructor has helped individuals improve their typing skills. Now, Typing Instructor for Kids delivers the same proven typing methods for children, in an entertaining and educational environment. Toby and Lafitte help parents entertain, motivate, and educate their young typers and quickly turn them into touch-typists.

Typer Island is an exciting place to learn to type! You’ll be motivated to improve your typing skills as you travel through five unique lands leading up to the Castle. In each land, you’ll experience new and exciting typing challenges, learn new keys, and build speed and accuracy.  To become ruler of Typer Island you must earn access to the Castle. Inside the Castle you’ll discover new challenges and practice material to help refine your typing skills. Best of all, as Ruler, you can roam anywhere on the Island and visit your favorite typing games and activities.

Toby and Lafitte are your invaluable guides on Typer Island. These new friends teach you everything you need to know about touch-typing and give you helpful advice to conquer each land, improve your skills, and capture the Castle.  Proven educational and instructional techniques are incorporated into Typer Island’s lessons and tests.  WPM (Words Per Minute) and accuracy scores are reported after each typing activity and results are saved for up to ten typists.

The adventure continues once you rule Typer Island. You must fend off dangers that seek to overthrow your kingdom. Only with proven typing skills can you defeat these obstacles, keep your throne, and continue your reign!

Lessons

• Structured Touch-Typing Content
• Proven Methods for Skill-Building
• Unique Drills & Interactive Exercises
• Age-Appropriate Content
• Graphic Guide Hands
• Standard & Split Keyboards

Tests

• 30+ Tests
• Comprehensive Evaluation
• Timed Tests
• Advanced Level Exams

Saved Results

• Instant Feedback
• WPM scores and Accuracy Percentages
• Results Calculated from All Activities
• Results Tracked for 10 Typists
• Performance Assessment for Key, Finger, Hand, and Row
• Full-Color Progress Charts, Graphs, and Certificates of Achievement
• Printable Results

Practice Material

• 40 Engaging Practice Stories
• Children’s Classics, Literature, Nursery Rhymes, and Fairy Tales
• Advanced Skill-Building Lessons and Tests
• Dynamic Variety

Games

• 11 Action-Packed Games
• Child-friendly with Age Appropriate Content
• Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Levels
• Games for 10-Key Play Included
• Izzy’s Oasis Improves Finger-to-Key
• Placement
• Diamond Glider Improves Typing Rhythm
• Typer Shark Abyss Offers a Multi-Level Typing Environment

    
Typing Instructor Deluxe

Improve your typing for home or business.  Typing Instructor Deluxe for Adults is a powerful typing instruction program which combines proven touch typing instruction program which combines proven touch typing learning methods, personalized typing plans, dynamic learning, travel themes, and action-packed games.  Typing Instructor Deluxe keeps adults motivated and entertained while they improve their typing skills.

Adults improve their typing speed and accuracy.  Typing Instructor Deluxe evaluates your keyboarding skills, measures your progress, and even recommends your next exercise. It's like having a personal typing coach at each step.  Learn more quickly and retain more from each activity.

Travel and Adventure
Learn to type can be enjoyable for adults, too.  Typing Instructor Deluxe provides three travel themes to ensure you'll have fun while you learn to type.  Take a world trip, travel through time or join a photo safari.

Proven Typing Techniques
Repetitive Keystroking builds your speed, Active Response improves accuracy, and Learned Words reinforces keys in your memory for faster touch typing.

Dynamic Learning
Only Typing Instructor Deluxe learns your weak typing areas and creates specific lessons to improve your speed and accuracy.  You'll save hours by focusing on the areas that need the most improvement.

Progress Results
Chart your progress as you improve and visualize your results.  A variety of graphs and charts show your proficiency over time.  View results for each finger, row, or hand separately.

Magazine Articles
Choose your practice material from exciting articles on subjects such as sports, entertainment, medicine, literature, and more.

Exciting Travel Adventure Games
10 Action packed virtual adventures make learning to type entertaining.

• Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
• Pentium processor or higher
• 580MB Hard Disk Space Available
• 2X CD-ROM Drive
• 800 x 600, 16-bit color display
• Sound Card
• Speakers or Headphones
• Mouse
• DirectX 8 for typing games