SpongeBob Squarepants Typing Win/Mac
- Kid-friendly typing tutorial provides a skill-building adventure
- Combination of tutorials, drills, activities, and quizzes
- 3 challenge levels; Game mode or Freestyle mode
- Progress tracking for speed and accuracy; correct finger placement
- Plus, oceans of activities and nautical nonsense
Product Description
From the typing experts who have brought you Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing® SpongeBob Squarepants™ Typing is an adorable skill-building adventure through which kids and adults alike can become seaworthy typists! SpongeBob Squarepants™ Typing will entice your children to surf the keyboard and learn to type! Children of all ages can learn to type through arcade-style learning activities and they won t be able to stop! SpongeBob Squarepants™ needs your typing help! SpongeBob is ready to take on the citizens of Bikini Bottom in the first ever under-sea typing tournament. But there s one problem– he can t type! What fate awaits our hapless hero? Will he be SpongeBob LoserPants? Or can you help him triumph and become the top typist at the bottom of the sea? SpongeBob Typing brings you a wide array of features: Two super-absorbent ways to learn: Game mode or Freestyle mode A combination of tutorials drills activities and quizzes Three challenge levels plus help and encouragement Progress tracking for speed and accuracy Posture home row keys and keyboard awareness Guide hands on the virtual keyboard teaches accurate finger placement Common letter combinations knowledge Capital letter numbers and punctuation lessons Plus oceans of activities and nautical nonsense! SpongeBob SquarePants™ Typing is an unbeatable tutorial solution for young keyboarders. As typing skills grow kids also pick up nifty facts about undersea life and nautical nonsense! Great games and plenty of undersea fun learning to type with this cartoon giant is certainly no chore! System Requirements:Windows® Minimum requirements: Windows® 2000 SP4/XP (Home & Pro) SP2/Vista™¹ 266 MHz Pentium II or faster 64 MB RAM DirectX 8.1 (included on CD) 8X or faster CD-ROM drive 200 MB free hard disk space SVGA video card – 16 bit color monitor 800 x 600 resolution or better 4 MB of Video RAM Windows®-compatible 16-bit sound card Speakers Key
SpongeBob Squarepants Typing Win/Mac
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November 21st, 2009 at 12:00 pm
It is hard for an educational program to compete with the likes of Mario.
That said, my 12 year old likes this program and has been using it without groans. That is saying a good bit! He likes the SpongeBob TV show, but I was a bit concerned that this program would be too ‘young’ for him. For the price though, I thought I’d give it a try and pass it on to a younger niece if it didn’t work out for us. That was a needless worry, because he took to it right off. It is challenging enough for the preteens and is basically the same ’style’ of typing tutor as the adult programs. In fact, I think if I could not type, I’d use this one – I’ve watched a lot of it, and I think that if you like the cartoon, age doesn’t matter. The games are a fun, but reinforcing, break from the drills. SpongeBob is a lot more encouraging than the program I used years ago! His funny comments are very positive.
Home-schoolers may be interested to know that at each level of accomplishment, a certificate is available to be printed. I like to have those to stick in my files – that is a nice feature. I had to make sure my son knew to look at the hands on the bottom of the screen, and show him how to use the little raised bumps on the F&J key to keep his proper position- that will help minimize the kids from looking down – then he was flying!
Rating: 5 / 5
November 21st, 2009 at 1:09 pm
my daughter’s enjoyed it very much and it’s helping her.
Rating: 3 / 5
November 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
My son is 6 1/2 and this typing program was not well suited for his age group. His fingers still can’t reach alot of the keys, and the games are timed which only makes searching for the correct keys even more frustrating.
We put this away almost 20 minutes after opening it. We might try again in a few years, but I would say this program isn’t appropriate until the are closer to 10.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
My kids have really enjoyed this game, and my 8-year-old daughter is really getting quite good at keeping her fingers on the ‘home row’ of keys and typing without looking. This is surely a skill that will server her well for her whole life, and it’s not something that schools seem to teach. My 6-year-old son finds it a bit more frustrating because his fingers aren’t long enough to reach all of the keys without pulling his fingers off the home row. No the fault of the game; touch typing may just be a skill better taught to kids at least 8 or 9 years old. We have the game installed on an old G4 iBook for the kids, and it works great.
Rating: 4 / 5
November 21st, 2009 at 5:44 pm
At first I thought this game would be really fun. But after awhile it started to get really hard. But I kept with it, and I got to Flats the Flounder (that’s round 4 out of 5). I haven’t gotten farther than that so far. I have Asperger’s and it’s really hard for me not to get frustrated. But my mom cheers for me and it helps me a lot. Now I think it’s almost the best game I’ve ever had. (It’s 2nd after Lego Star Wars, which has nothing to do with typing.) I recommend you buy this game, and your children will really love it. It’s an A.
(Dictated by Malachi, age 9, and typed by Mom, since she’s over 13.)
Rating: 5 / 5