The center also lets you create custom lesson plans and provides a practice area where you retype works of astronomy, fiction, folklore, and historical documents (including, for some unfathomable reason, Richard Nixon's first inaugural address).
You can watch videos on how to recognize cumulative trauma disorders, how to set up your workstation, and exercises you can do to relieve the stress on your digits. In the disc's Media Center, you can evaluate your typing habits and get pointers on posture from Bob the ergo human (who looks more like an ergo crash-test dummy). Brøderbund has topped off the disc with information on ergonomics. Mavis offers more than just quick red foxes jumping over lazy brown dogs. You can also use the coach to schedule daily typing lessons, load templates of book reports and other common documents into your word processor, or insert emoticons or clip art into your docs. Or you can display a replica of the keyboard with transparent hands that type along with you, showing you the correct finger positions (which is, frankly, a little unnerving). Whenever you want to use Coach, just right-click the Mavis icon in the Windows system tray to call up a thermometerlike gauge that measures your speed in words per minute. Or play Shark Attack, where you must correctly type words such as electroencephalograph or risk being eaten by Jaws.īrøderbund has improved Mavis's Personal Coach applet, which lets you refine your typing while you work on other projects in a word processor or other apps. When you type one correctly, a chameleon slurps them up with its tongue. Once you've completed a few drills, Mavis suggests you take a break to play a typing game such as Chameleon Picnic, where letters march across the screen on the backs of ants. And even if you already know your way around a spacebar, Mavis can still teach you a thing or two about speed and accuracy. It'll teach you proper typing technique and help break you of all those bad habits you've acquired over the years. If you're strictly a hunt-and-peck typist but need to start churning out papers by the ream, Mavis is a must. This comprehensive instructional system combines detailed assessments, dynamic personal instruction.
This software designed by Broderbund is very useful for learning to type new words fast. Her best-selling learn-to-type CD, now in its 12th edition, defines the genre of typing-instruction software. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe 20.0 () Maximize your productivity with MavisBeacon Teaches Typing Deluxe 20. Mavis Beacon is the Betty Crocker of keyboards. Her best-selling learn-to-type CD, now in its 12th edition, defines the genre of typing-instruction software.