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Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa | 
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| From: Disney Interactive
Category: Software
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $2.35
You Save: $12.64 (84%)
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 1300
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows 95
Genre: Childrens Reading and Language Software
Color: Adventures in Typing
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 6 - 18 years
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
Model: 1369901
ASIN: B000023VVH
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
This typing tutorial for children teaches essential typing habits while having fun. Learn all this and more as you progress through five exciting and challenging activities. Throughout your typing adventure, get private lessons from Rafiki, and plenty of laughs from wild and wacky Timon and Pumbaa. Fun activities build essential typing skills!
Amazon.com Review
Gentle jungle murmurings overlaid with Robert Guillaume's gleeful voice give this solid, well-conceived typing program an unusual degree of appeal and staying power. While smacking bugs, catching grubs, and tearing away from dangerous enemies, kids are actually practicing the same fundamental skill-based keyboard activities as covered by such adult titles as Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Some terrific components of this program include shadows that display which finger should be used to hit each key, a clock ticker that counts the seconds in each two-minute game, and the blissful fact that hitting the space bar will fast-forward you past the opening and closing credits. The mysterious, leafy jungle setting is delightfully alive, yet you'll likely need to turn the brightness on your monitor way up to see all the vital buttons hidden in the dark corners of the scene. Be forewarned: to truly conquer touch-typing, you need to drive those keyboard strokes deep into the body's muscular memory. Endless repetition is the only proven method for this. That means that while this program boasts five unique activities (for example, Rafiki gives "lessons" while Timon and Pumbaa play "games"), it is all keyboard practice, again and again. Kids receive encouragement with an enticing visual environment, progress reports, certificates, and frequent enthusiastic comments from Guillaume, but it is ultimately going to fall upon the parents to see that their children continue with this when the going gets, well, boring. Don't expect your child to see this through without your support. Stay involved, and they will. (Ages 6-10) --Jean Lenihan
Amazon.com Product Description
Lion King favorites Timon and Pumbaa are featured throughout the interactive adventures, customized private lessons, and dozens of activities that progressively challenge varying skill levels.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 25 more reviews...
 Time to give Mavis her walking papers! November 15, 2000
Mellow Monk (Livermore, CA USA)
95 out of 96 found this review helpful
This is not one of those cutesy titles that only pretends to be about education. This is an extremely well-designed, well-thought-out program that effectively teaches typing (i.e., keyboarding). Anything even remotely associated with The Lion King may trigger the gag reflex in survivors of the whole Lion King blitzkrieg, but rest assured: Timon and Pumba do not have center stage here; the lessons do. Never sacrificing the functional for the cute or gimmicky, this program is structured, yet adaptive, and uses a gradual progression of exercises to provide just the right degree of challenge as the user progresses. In other words, the program captivates by providing variation (to keep things from getting dull) and by making the goal seem easy while maintaining just the right level of difficulty. Both my wife and nine-year-old were instantly hooked and have progressed dramatically. I do have a few minor complaints (for example, icons for navigating through the program could be more intuitive or--Heaven forbid--identified with actual words), but overall, this is a finely crafted tool that condenses a one-semester high school typing class (of yore) onto a single CD-ROM--but without the boring teacher.
Best keyboarding software for young students February 13, 2000
68 out of 68 found this review helpful
I consider keyboarding essential, especially once children have transitioned to cursive if not before. As an educational consultant, I wanted to actually try keyboarding software for younger children before recommending it. This title was by far the best of five I tried, with the most potential for children to place fingers correctly. It was one of the titles including posture and position illustrations at the beginning. While entertaining, the cartoon motivation and reinforcement moved quickly, so practice really is required. I didn't like the weird cave activity, but children are keyboarding adequately before they get to that last level. Designed well, the title I recommend for those too young for Mavis or when a lighter approach is needed.
Terrific Typing Teacher January 5, 2000
64 out of 64 found this review helpful
This program is a terrific typing teacher for the youngest beginner. My daughter is 5 and has been wanting to "use the keyboard" for a long time. She has really done well on her own to follow the directions of Rafiki who makes her practice many more times than he did me! So it really is true that the program adjusts for different levels. This program really is all I had hoped it would be from just reading the box. At the time that I ordered this program from Amazon.com there were not any customer reviews.
Great way to teach a child to type December 30, 2000
24 out of 24 found this review helpful
This is a great game/teaching tool which will help any youngster ages 4 - 15 to use a keyboard. It keeps your attention via interactive voice and animation as well as frequent games which test your skill. The scorecard reports on your progress as well as identifying where you need help. In one week, my children's typing skills increased 10 fold. I recommend this to anyone.
Great for a very reluctant typist August 13, 2001
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
The last thing my son wanted to do over the Summer is learn typing. But his handwriting leaves a lot to be desired, and they allow lap tops in his school so they want the kids to know how to type... and this program appeals to his sense of humor and fun. He doesn't mind doing the lessons even though they are quite challenging once you get into it. There are certificates to be earned and lots of encouragement from Rafiki. I recommend it. Even though my son is 11, and older than the recommended ages, it's still a lot of fun. He's also ADHD, but it manages to hold his attention!
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