Hello readers,

The half-term break may be over, but summer is still fast approaching and with it this year comes the (football) World Cup.  I mentioned our two new World Cup-related products in the previous blog post, and they’ve proven to be very popular; we’ve already surpassed 1000 downloads for the free World Cup Wallchart.  In fact, this week we’ve had more hits on our site than ever before.

However, the focus of this post is not on the World Cup, but on our next software program, Ben & Lexi’s Early Keyboard & Mouse Skills.  The program will contain plenty of fun activities which will help young learners get to grips with using a keyboard and mouse.  We are still in the early concept stages of development at the moment, but we have an early screenshot for you to feast your eyes on:

As you can see, we are trying to make the software as attractive and child-friendly as possible.  For the keyboard activities, a full keyboard will be displayed on the screen and the keys will ‘light up’ to show the child which key they ought to be pressing – and more importantly, where it is on the keyboard.  This screenshot shows the virtual version of our Large Lower Case Keyboard, however in the full program teachers will be able to select from a range of keyboards, including our Lower & Upper Case Keyboard.  As the program is still in the early development stage, we are open to any suggestions you might have – leave a comment in the box below if you have any ideas.

Well, that’s about all for this week.  I’ll be posting again next Thursday, if I can find time between watching World Cup matches.  Thanks for reading.