A complete course about typing for all ages

The Spanish company MICRONET has created and published a complete course of typing whith an easy learning interactive software for children. They would learn how to use the keyboard without any problem but, at the same time, they could play and have fun. MICRONET is the leader in the Spanish market of electronic publications and educative multimedia programmes.

First issue of Paula y los Finguerianos is in Spanish language. Its novety is that children learn quickly how to use the computer keyboard through games where events are associated with every key. The games are successive stages that force the pupils to watch continously the screen, so they are involved in a progressive learning. Progresses could be seen in a “training area”, where taps by minute are measured. At the end of the programme, a diploma will guarantee the pupil’s skill and every sucessful carried out level will be rewarded with a medal.

This programme has been created with the most modern methods of typing learning and its aim is to make the user knowing the exact location of every key besides of getting speed with the keyboard. The most important elements of the programme are: the correct posture of the body in front of the screen; the right position of hands and fingers; to try writing without watching the keyboard and to be constant in all of that. Paula y los Finguerianos has also a storytelling dictation, a personal diary and a creative workshop to design and paint postcards, birthday cards, invitations…

Paula y los Finguerianos is structured in 20 different levels or games to motivate the player until the end of the couse. It’s presented in a CD-Rom compatible with a PC which uses Windows 95/98/2000, Pentium 150 and 32 Mb, graphic card SVGA, sound card and mouse. The recommended price is 25 Usa dollars/27 euros. This programme has its own web page: http://www.paula.micronet.es where more information could be obteined.

MICRONET, founded in 1984, is a company with completely Spanish share capital and technology and it always has been got involved in IT. MICRONET multimedia catalogue are introduced in Spain and in the most important Latin American countrys. The head office of MICRONET is in Madrid and the enterprise has three branches in Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia.

The product is prepared to be “located” whit its appropriate translation and publishing for any other country of the European Union and English-speaking market.

To get more information, please contact with:

Micronet S.A.: International Department.
José Antonio Cerezo.
Tfn: +34 91 3589625(*); +34 91 3589568; fax: +3491 3589544