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By Renee Ellison
Cross-Over Educational Products
www.crossover.ellison.net
(866) 385-1809


Would you like to learn to touch-type in just five days? Well, you can with Cross-Over's Zoom-Type. Commit to five minutes per day for five days and you will be touch-typing by the end of the week!

I know it seems unbelievable, but it really does work. In the same format as Quick Piano, Zoom-Type turns learning into hyper-drive by creating hundreds of mental pictures that appear and disappear in your mind. By teaching the entire keyboard quickly and using "finger calisthenics" set to music, you automatically learn to touch type in only five days! Of course, if you would rather work at it a little slower, say once or twice a day, that will work too, but it won't take you an entire year to learn the keyboard as it often does with other methods. From then on, it is simply a matter of increasing your speed. Zoom-Type consists of a manual and a CD.

Lessons are broken down into sets of cards labeled A through I. Each day is divided into five sessions. Each session consists of two parts: the CD (musical finger calisthenics) and one of the sets of cards. A handy chart is provided so that when you complete a session, you check off each part. This makes it so easy to follow. Whether you complete all five sessions in one day or opt for a slower pace, your student will see at a glance just where to begin. After the keyboard is learned and more typing practice is needed, the student progresses to a series of one-minute drills. Afterwards, the student can work on typing simple little poems, which are actually godly character qualities sprinkled throughout the text, for even more practice.

Punctuality, orderliness, dependability, excellence, and follow-through are just a sampling of these lessons. Because you are using a template of a computer keyboard (provided in the text) to memorize the keys, Zoom-Type is completely portable. You can take it anywhere. You can actually learn to touch type without even owning a computer! Through the use of multiple senses, the learning process naturally occurs more rapidly. Zoom-Type is definitely the way to go to learn touch-typing. It is quick, convenient, inexpensive, and easy to follow. I will be highly recommending this one to my friends. Try it today.



-- Product Review by: Teri Lucas, Staff Writer, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine


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