Zoom-Type
speed-typing, touch-typing, fast keyboarding skills for today's world
Touch-type in just 5 days!
Zoom-Type is a revolutionary breakthrough in teaching touch-typing FAST by using the right brain. Hundreds of quick snapshots and a musical finger march get you seeing, saying, and tapping the correct keys with the correct fingers in just 5 days--if you do it for 5 minutes, 5 times a day! For ages 4 to 94. Totally portable--no computer necessary--but it works with any keyboard. This is the best course to teach the touch system of typing: learning the keyboard quickly and then reinforcing it by practicing the professional ten-finger technique with this effective self-paced typing tutor.
Why Zoom-Type works so well:
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 system? 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?
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.
Why is Zoom-Type a superior method for learning how to touch-type?
The reason both the Zoom-Type and Quick Piano programs by Renee Ellison work so well is their three distinctive aspects, which you will observe as you start to use them:
(1) Spaced repetition -- the skill is best learned in many short sessions rather than one long one.
(2) Right brain -- multi-sensory engagement, using the picture side of the brain, is the fastest route to the mastery of a new skill.
(3) Splintered skills -- you learn each skill separately, then when you put them together the brain jumps the synapses. For example, the snapshot pages teach the locations of the letters/ the keyboard notes. The practice keyboards train the reach and retract for the domain of each finger typing, and for playing the 24 major and minor piano chords. And the musical finger march audio CD that accompanies the Zoom-Type book trains the fingers in the appropriate reach and retract.
Testimonials
Here's what users have been saying about the Zoom-Type
method of learning how to speed-type! Also,
click here to read an
online review by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.
Read more about Zoom-Type at http://www.typingtutorcourse.com/
Kit contents: the wire-bound volume includes the user's manual, progress charts, practice keyboard, all of the snapshot pages, and practice word lists (the Doltch 220 common words) and (for more practice) words to Character Traits songs. It also includes a Musical Finger March audio CD (7 lessons in nearly 39 minutes) that is especially recommended for typing students at the 3rd grade level and below, because the narration walks a young student through the entire program.
Cost: $29.95
Or, get a 20% discount:
save $12, plus save on shipping, by buying both
the typing and the piano
courses at the same time!
Order this new
supplemental item (Product #1N) for just $5 more: Speedy 10-Key! It's
a little kit for learning the 10-key numbers on the side of your keyboard.
Renee developed this at the suggestion of a homeschool mom who noted that this
is a required skill in some accounting/ book-keeping classes. The mom reported
that "I actually lost a great job opportunity because I did not know this 10-key
'stuff', and I don't want my children to lose an opportunity."
Speedy 10-Key is also
available for you to print out at your own computer as an E-Book.
P.S. If you don't already have a digital timer, you can buy one at a discount department store or order a tabletimer online from http://www.typingtutorcourse.com/Links.htm -- it's handy for self-timing students' one-minute typing contests that are at the end of the Zoom-Type course.
Only one is needed per family. Good for ages 4 to 94! Only $29.95. Add 10% for shipping and handling. (Colorado residents, add 2.9% state sales tax.)
Mail
your check to Cross-Over
and mail it to Cross-Over, FLC 7028, 1000
Rim Dr., Durango CO 81301-3999 -- or pay online
using your PayPal account.
Questions?
send an email to crossover@ellison.net or
phone (970) 385-1809 (Monday-Friday)
(for info only; no phone orders).
***Computer keyboards are the pencils of the future! ***** Fast keyboarding is the skill of the future.**
Page last modified: November 6, 2007
