Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 17 Deluxe w/ SpongeBob Typing CD

• The Media Center
• Ergonomic Evaluation
• Entertaining Arcade-Style Games
• Import MP3 Files
• Specialized Practice Area
• Lessons and Settings
• Progress Tracking
• Palm Powered - Download to your palm device and practice on the go.

Product Features

• Exercise your typing fingers with more than 220 practice lessons and 80 custom lessons!
• Enjoy 14 entertaining arcade-style games that make practicing fun!
• Enhanced user interface is compatible with widescreen laptops and leaves the desktop more accessible even while the program is running.
• Make your learning even more efficient by customizing lessons to fit your needs.
• Download lessons to your Palm Pilot for easy portable practice sessions!
• Jazz up your lessons by importing your own MP3 files to listen to while you practice!
• Straighten up your keyboarding skills by correcting your posture and physical alignment with ergonomic evaluation videos.

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SpongeBob Squarepants Typing: Learn to type the SpongeBob way!

Dive right into the step-by-step typing tutorial that's awash with waterlogged hilarity and all your favorite SpongeBob SquarePants friends!  Now kids of all ages can learn to type with SpongeBob!  Get ready to master keyboarding!  Navigate through Bikini Bottom and help SpongeBob and his friends compete in the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament and improve your typing skills along the way.

The Practice Area is set in Jellyfish Fields where you can play. Practice exercises to improve your typing skills. Here you will be able to choose short passages about Bikini Bottom and its residents as well as other interesting sea facts.  enter the Lesson Area and compete in the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament. You will compete with SpongeBob against various Bikini Bottom characters. Type your way to the Finals where you will compete to be the Bikini Bottom Typing Tournament Champion! Games are set up all over Glove World. These games provide a fun way to practice your typing skills.

SpongeBob SquarePants Typing features five exciting games with different themes to build your typing speed accuracy and rhythm. Your typing progress is not tracked in the Games Menu. The more advanced your typing skills the more fun and challenging the games will be.

Product Features

• Arcade-style learning activities
• Game mode or practice mode
• 3 levels of challenge
• Tracks typing speed and accuracy

Skills Learned

Lessons are separated into three different levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. The Beginner level typing speed is 5 WPM (words per minute) the Intermediate level is 11 WPM and the Advanced level is 15 WPM.  Each Lesson consists of a tutorial, a drill keystroke practice, an activity, and a quiz to determine your progress. Lesson content starts with the basics and builds on accumulated knowledge. Games played as part of a lesson will only contain content learned up to that point.  There are five rounds to play and three Finals.  Each round contains three to four lessons and has a different opponent. Completing a round earns you a Certificate which you can print if you have a printer installed.  To complete each round you must pass a test. To pass you must type at least 60% accuracy of the all of the test correctly and you must type at least 30% accuracy for each of the letters learned in the current round.  Once you complete the Beginner and Intermediate lessons you will be able to choose one of the three advanced lessons (the Finals). The advanced lessons’ goals are based on WPM (word per minute).

Skills:

• Proper posture
• Hand and finger placement
• Home row keys
• Keyboard awareness
• Common letter combinations
• Capital letters numbers and punctuation

Lesson Chart

• Lesson 1:    a s d f
• Lesson 2:    j k l ;
• Lesson 3:    e i
• Lesson 4:    g h '
• Lesson 5:    r u
• Lesson 6:    t y
• Lesson 7:    q w o p
• Lesson 8:    v b n m
• Lesson 9:    z x c
• Lesson 10:  .
• Lesson 11:  Uppercase
• Lesson 12:  Uppercase
• Lesson 13:  ? " :
• Lesson 14:  1 2 3
• Lesson 15:  4 5 6
• Lesson 16:  7 8
• Lesson 17:  9 0
• Advanced:  15 wpm
• Advanced 20 wpm
• Advanced 25 wpm

Games Included

Glove World 500
A fun, fast paced racing game that helps build your typing speed. The object of the game is to stay ahead of Squidward by typing as quickly and as correctly as you can.  To play Glove World 500, type each character shown on Boaty's dashboard as quickly as possible.  Each time you make an error seaweed splats on your windshield. If too much seaweed splats on your windshield, the game ends.

A Star is Born
This game builds your accuracy skills. The object of the game is to dress Patrick up in elaborate costumes by typing the words found on his house.  Type three words to dress Patrick in one piece of clothing. Typing two or three words of the same color will dress Patrick up in a piece of clothing matching the outfit indicated by the colored rocks in the bottom left corner of the screen. Patrick will get a random piece of clothing if you type three different colored words. The piece chosen will be one of the three different styles that you typed.  Patrick needs five pieces of clothing to be fully dressed.  If you make an error the game will not advance until you type the correct letter.  Each word begins with a different letter. For example if the word "Game" appears no other on-screen word begins with the letter "G." Once you type the first letter of a word you need to complete that word before starting another one. You may not backspace.  The timer is located in the bottom right of the screen. The time given depends on the level and lesson you are currently on.  Winning the game depends on quick and accurate typing. Patrick appears on-screen after you finish dressing him up. You lose the game if you type too slowly and your time runs out.

Doh Ray Me
SpongeBob enjoys the occasional undersea melody – in the key of sea of course. In this activity you can choose a melody from SpongeBob’s jukebox and then 'play' that melody by typing letters that appear as bubbles on your keyboard. If you type the keys correctly you will hear a song from your favorite Bikini Bottom musician: Squidward, Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, or Mr. Krabs.

Snail's Pace Race
It’s the Bikini Bottom Stakes snail race and Gary is up against his archrival the paint-drying-quick Slime Biscuit. The race takes place on the ocean floor in Bikini Bottom.  It is designed to improve your speed and accuracy. The faster and more correctly you type the faster Gary goes. Stay ahead of Slime Biscuit to win the game. If your time runs out and Slime Biscuit reaches the end line before Gary, or you make too many mistakes, Slime Biscuit wins.

Senseless Patrick
In a freak domestic accident involving a cotton swab, an inflatable easy chair, and a violent sneeze, Patrick has lost all five of his seldom-used senses. In a gallant attempt to save his unfortunate friend SpongeBob has miniaturized himself (using Mermaidman’s mesmeric belt) and has entered Patrick's head -- and he intends to knock some sense back into his friend!  You can help SpongeBob move through a maze inside Patrick’s head. Type any letter next to SpongeBob to move through the maze.  Avoid the nasty Antibodies or dispel them by stopping on a ‘thought tangle’. Once you complete the Thought Tangle all of the Antibodies are expelled from Patrick’s head. Watch out! These pesky guys will come back and try to kick SpongeBob out too.  You must collect all of Patrick’s five lost senses to restore them to some measure of usefulness.

Windows Requirements

• Windows 98 Me 2000 XP or Vista
• 450 MHz Pentium III processor or faster
• 64 MB RAM for Windows 98/Me
• 128 MB RAM for Windows 2000/XP
• 16X CD-ROM drive
• 360 MB free hard disk space *
• 16-bit color monitor
• 800 x 600 Resolution
• Windows compatible sound card
• Windows compatible mouse

* Full install of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe requires at least 550MB of free hard disk space

Macintosh Requirements

• PowerPC G3 333-MHz processor or faster
• Mac OS 9.2 Mac OS 10.2.2 and higher
• 64 MB RAM for Mac OS 9.2
• 128 MB RAM for Mac OS 10.2.8-10.3.9
• 256 MB RAM for Mac OS 10.4.X
• 16X CD-ROM drive
• 360 MB free hard disk space *
• 16-bit color monitor
• 800 x 600 Resolution

* Full install of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Deluxe requires at least 550MB of free hard disk space

• Internet Access
• A color printer with 300 dpi or better recommended

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Age 8 and Up
Item #XS42346
Regular price: $39.95
Discount Price : $32.69


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