Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa

by Disney

Product Features

• Learning to type phrases with accuracy, more than with speed, is the fastest way to catch your dinner.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000023VVH
• Item model number: 1369901
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,305 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #23 in Software > Children's Software > Reading & Language
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Designed for children as young as six, this keyboarding program features step-by-step tutorials that teach hand placement and key strokes. Children are encouraged to improve their speed and accuracy by playing five engaging games. In one game, for instance, kids type sentences to help Timon and Pumbaa negotiate a maze of tunnels to avoid hungry hyenas. In another game, they shoot bugs by typing the correct letters. Detailed records of progress are kept. The Lion King theme may be best for younger kids- but even adult testers found the program helpful in increasing typing speed and accuracy. The program will work well in both homes and schools.
Teaches: typing, keyboarding
Age Range: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 Copyright © 2000 Children's Software Revue

Product Description

Experience a typing adventure with Timon and Pumbaa!Product InformationLearn the fundamentals of typing with fun activities that build essential typingskills in the Disney Adventure in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa.  Thistyping tutorial for children teaches essential typing habits while havingfun.  Learn all this and more as you progress throughfive exciting and challenging activities.  Throughout your typing adventure get private lessons from Rafiki and plenty oflaughs from wild and wacky Timon and Pumbaa.Fun activities build essential typing skills!Skills Learned Finger Placement Home Row Technique Edit Mistakes Accuracy  Speed Letter Recognition Word ProcessingProduct FeaturesLetter Recognition and Finger PlacementLetter recognition finger placement and home row technique - who knew learningthe basics could be such a hit?Typing Words and Accuracytype words with an emphasis on accuracy - that's the correct way to quench Timonand Pubmaa's thirst.Typing PhrasesLearning to type phrases with accuracy more than with speed it the fastest wayto catch your dinner.Typing ParagraphsType paragraphs edit mistakes - c'mon get to it! Weary Timon and Pumbaa arestuck here until you get it right.Windows Requirements Windows 98 XP Vista (requires compatibility mode) Pentium 90 MHz or faster processor 16MB of RAM 20 MB free hard Disk space 640 x 480 monitor 16-bit color Windows compatible Sound Card and speakers 4X CD-OM Drive 

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Customer Reviews

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102 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time to give Mavis her walking papers!, November 15, 2000

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Mellow Monk (Livermore, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa (CD-ROM)

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.

104 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Game... Parts of it are a bit monotonous for young kids, February 28, 2000

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This review is from: Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa (CD-ROM)

This game was purchased for my six year old. She is a pretty active kid...not a lot of computer experience yet. When she first began to play, she was very tempted to look at her fingers...I sat beside her and held a lg. piece of paper over her hands, which solved the problem. The first night she learned to type f,d,j and k. She liked to "shoot bugs" (by typing the correct letter) but mandatory pages of just letters was a bit frustrating for her. I think that this game should go a little slower and therefore be more of a game and less work. I rate this game a solid B. It seems that it would be perfect for an 8 or 9 year old.

74 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best keyboarding software for young students, February 12, 2000

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This review is from: Disney's Adventures in Typing with Timon & Pumbaa (CD-ROM)

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.