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Brand: The Learning Company EAN: 0772040816100 Format: CD-ROM Item Dimensions: Label: The Learning Company Manufacturer: The Learning Company Model: 381160 MPN: 381160 Platform: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP Publisher: The Learning Company Release Date: October 15, 2002 Studio: The Learning Company Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: With Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15, you'll perform better whenever you're sitting in front of a keyboard! Track your accomplishments and stay motivated with tests, progress reports, and special certificates Develop the essential typing skills you need for school and career success, with a little help from Mavis Beacon! Amazon.com Review: If you want to improve your typing skills, then Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 15 could be the perfect instructor for you. This title is easy to install and begins by requiring you to specify your age, your type of keyboard and your typing goal (how many words per minute). Lessons are customized to your specific needs and you are kept apprised of development with plenty of progress reports. There are a whole host of exercises on this program, many complete with on-screen hands that type along with you to demonstrate where your fingers should go on the keyboard. The opportunities that you are given to customize this program make it equally effective for beginners, busy executives and admin assistants who want to improve their skills. There are some people who are probably put off using software programs to learn to type because they find them too impersonal. One of the main strengths of this program is that it goes out of its way to create a traditional classroom feel. You get friendly voiceovers as Mavis Beacon introduces herself, shows you around and encourages you to improve your skills. The program teaches in either Spanish or English, but it's not all work. In the game hallway, there are eight entertaining games which help to build your typing speeds and accuracy. In one game, you click on keyboard characters to make colorful bugs quickly disappear. Overall this is a very slick typing program which offers plenty of variety to keep you interested and the games are enjoyable enough to keep enticing you back.--Justin Hunt, Amazon.co.uk Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Not badFor $10 it's not bad. Have a computer with XP and it works fine. Rating:  - Thanks Amazon, you did it againGreat product for the price, we have it on our class computer, the kids love it. When we built new computers for the room, I had to have the same program so it wouldn't cause the children any problems. Product arrived swiftly in perfect condition. Thanks Amazon! Les Brown Rating:  - sleepy hollow - scary stuffThere are a lot of reasons why I don't like this product but here are the main ones in no specific order: (1) It lacks focus: I do not understand their teaching strategy (speed or accuracy) (2) I found the content quite depressing: the material Franklin's diaries and excerpts from "Sleeep Hollow" don't help with the already difficult task of learning to type (3) It's not as 'smart' as it should be. (4) It kept pushing me to learn new keys when I was quite happy to continue developing my level of ... Read More Rating: - Windows XPThe program only worked one time. Seems there is a problem if you have Windows XP home. Seller referred me to manufacturer for solution. Not solved yet... Rating: - This Program Is AddictiveI love this program, and have logged over (can you believe it) 14 hours of total lesson typing time so far (think about it, that is huge). I will probably double that before I stop using it. I am now typing between 22 words a minute for really hard lessons (lots of punctuation and numbers) to close to 40 for easy words and sentences. I am thrilled. I am nearly 40 years old, and to finally be able to type is really a dream come true. Thanks Mavis. Here is the good and the bad. Read More |
