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Clisby wrote:

Banty wrote:
One of the summer assignments (from me) for my 11 year old son going into
7th
grade next year is that he learn to keyboard. It would help him with
assignments, now that some can be turned in typed (his handwriting is
atrocious), and he's falling into a hunt-and-peck two-finger habit when he
does
type which I don't want to set in.

What is a good software program for this? Windoze98.

Thanks,
Banty


Are there still books available on teaching yourself to type? I would
think that would be just as good as a software program. I taught
myself to type as a teenager (using a typewriter), but I could have used
the same method with a keyboard.

Clisby


Sure -- but I've used some of the computerized programs for improving my
speed, and it's just more fun, plus you get better and more immidiate
feedback on how you're doing. I'd definately go with a computerized
program to help a child learn -- the quick correction and feedback is
one of the really cool things computers can do well.
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Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care