Utah Keyboarding Software
Review
| Software Title: Flash Typing | Year Published: 2000 | ||
| Suggested Age: 8+ years | Rating: Good | ||
| Description: While Flash Typing may look like a simple game, it's actually a powerful new teaching tool that makes use of three senses - sight, touch, and sound. Its initial focus is on speed and capturing ideas rather than on accuracy because when students reach speeds of approximately 18 words-per-minute, mistakes began to decrease on their own. Here's how the Flash Typing game works. You're in a spaceship flying through an asteroid field of letters, and the letters will hit your windshield unless you vaporize them with your laser cannon by striking the correct key. If a letter makes it through and hits the windshield, cracks will appear. Too many cracks and the windshield will blow out. (For those who aren't interested in the sounds and space effects, those special features can be toggled off.) This is a highly successful, research-based approach to typing instruction. Our program is actually teaching students to touch-type 30 words-per-minute in 15 hours while 'playing' the game. They don't even realize they're practicing. | |||
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| Approximate Cost: $20 (school licenses available) | |||
| Source of Supply: ONLINE DEMO Dixon Products http://flashtyping.com/ | |||
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