Room With A View

I remember a few years ago someone told me there was no point in teaching keyboarding because voice recognition software would make the skill obsolete. Perhaps this will be the case in the future but right now my students need to be able to keyboard. They need to get to the point where they can get a first draft on the computer without their lack of keyboarding skills getting in the way of their ideas.

I mentioned this at my school’s back to school night earlier this week and the parents asked for software recommendations. The networked program we use at school is not available in Beijing. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good keyboarding program? Is Mavis Beacon still widely used?