List Price: $19.99Price: $1.99 You Save: $18.00 (90%)as of 11/23/2009 17:57 EST
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: 411
EAN: 0798936836151
Format: CD-ROM
Item Dimensions: 3030035300
Label: Knowledge Adventure
Manufacturer: Knowledge Adventure
Manufacturer Maximum Age: 144 months
Manufacturer Minimum Age: 84 months
MPN: 411
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Knowledge Adventure
Studio: Knowledge Adventure
Features:- For Ages 7 - 12
- Combines arcade-style game play and challenging activities
- Make learning to type fun and easy.
- Train with over 30 lessons; Skill levels automatically adjust
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
[Age 7 - 12] Become an Extreme Key-Boarder While Playing Cool Games! Designed specifically for kids, JumpStart® Typing combines arcade-style game play and challenging activities with timed typing lessons and technique movies to make learning to type fun and easy. Rockin' Rock Climbing - Key your way to the top while avoiding obstacles! Ultimate Skateboarding - Practice your typing as you master skateboard tricks. Radical Snowboarding - Type the correct letter combinations as you race down an icy slope! Features: A special diagnostic evaluation determines your child's base typing ability; Movie clips teach correct hand placement, posture, and other typing fundamentals; Train with over 30 lessons; Skill levels automatically adjust to your child's growing abilities; Play arcade-style practice games to improve speed and accuracy.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I bought this for my 6-yr old after picking up an old version at a garage sale that would not save his scores on Windows XP. He likes it, and begs to practice his typing that has improved fairly quickly. I tried it a bit in training mode to do exercises as I don't quite touch type and liked how it shows which finger to use to type the next letter so you don't have to look at the keyboard.
Note this was written back when screens were 640x480 and barely updated since. the window is still stuck at that size, and it will not run if the CD is not in the drive, even if you copy the whole CD to your hard drive and install from there. When this was advertised as the XP/Vista version I hoped it would have lost these limitations.
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I use this is my classroom as a center for my Kindergarteners thru 2nd graders. They love this and are learning to be successful typist.
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My 10 year old son would spend hours playing (actually learning and practicing typing) if I let him. His typing/keyboarding has improved in a very short time.
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I think you need the Windows 95 or something like that, which I didn't realize when I bought it. This CD didn't work for us how it was supposed to, some things were upside down or something like that, I just gave it away to the library, it was totally useless to me.
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