Posts tagged Typing Tutors & Lessons
Typing Instructor Deluxe
May 27th
Typing Instructor Deluxe offers 64 different lessons, 80 practice sessions and over 300 practice articles. This typing program puts a fun twist on typing practice with ten typing games, making typing instruction fun for both kids and adults alike. Some games offer different challenge levels and keeps track of high scores.
Check out TopTenReviews review of Typing Instructor Deluxe. You can also download a 30-minute trial version.
Kiran Reddy’s Typing Tutor
Dec 23rd
This is a typing tutor program from Kiran Reddy that features various typing lessons, tests and games for keyboarding practice. It also provides statistical graphs to chart your progress and options like finger preview and key preview.
From their website, here are some of the other features:
-Basic typing lessons enable beginners to understand Touch typing.
-There are more than 500 typing practice lessons and more than 500 testing lessons.
- Finger preview feature shows what Finger to struck.
-It calculates and shows Accuracy, Word per minute and key per minute after every lesson.
-It measures your typing speed, errors for each letter and accuracy and analyses shows as understandable graphs in progress window.
-Kids Typing module includes five deferent types of lessons designed for age groups from 4 to 8 years.
-Numeric Typing module designed to teach numeric key board.
-Typing Games module includes four different type of games designed to learn typing while relaxing.
The program is designed for MS Windows and is available for download completely free of charge.
Typing Adventure
Dec 22nd
Typing Adventure is a keyboarding program for kids, consisting of various lessons, tests and games. The different lessons allow you to focus specifically on particular keys or areas of the keyboard while the games allow you to practice your skills in an entertaining way ( there are a bunch of different games complete with themes, music and appealing graphics for kids). There are also a bunch of typing tests based on excerpts from different works of literature that provide you with a record of your WPM typing speed.
a fun way for kids to practice keyboarding skills
You can get a family membership for a measly $5/month or $30/yr. Schools can also purchase bulk licenses for use in keyboarding/technology classes.
TypingMaster Typing Tutor
Dec 1st
This is a professional software package available for both businesses and schools to help employees/students improve their touch-typing skills. From their site:
TypingMaster Pro is a professional typing tutor that helps you to double your typing speed. With TypingMaster Pro it takes only a couple of hours to learn the blazing fast touch typing system. As a result you will save hours and hours of time!
Dance Mat Typing
Dec 1st
This is a 12- part typing game offered by the BBC. The different levels focus on different parts of the keyboard. Fun and colorful, this is a great way for kids to practice their typing skills.
Check out Dance Mat Typing
Reviews of typing tutors
Nov 30th
Curious about the different typing tutor programs available? Well fortunately, someone has taken the time to do a little product review for 5 of the more popular ones:
Keyboard Classroom
Nov 30th
Just released this November is a new typing program designed specifically for children with learning disabilities. From their site:
Keyboard Classroom was designed by educators at the internationally-renowned Ben Bronz Academy to provide children with learning disabilities the opportunity to learn in a mainstream environment. Research shows that mastery of keyboarding and touch typing skills can lead directly to success in composition, spelling, and note taking.
Check out the Keyboard Classroom