[WEB4LIB] Mouse practice software?

TMGB bennettt at am.appstate.edu
Fri Mar 3 17:49:10 EST 2000


How about a nice game of Dr. Who Concentration where you click on
different blocks to match a pair of images:

http://lserv.simplenet.com/concentration.html


Thomas

Brian Smith wrote:
> 
> We have Solitaire available on several of our public computers, and we've
> been suggesting that people who want to learn to use a mouse (pretty much a
> required skill, now that we've implemented a Web interface on our OPACs)
> put in some time playing it.  However, it's come to our attention that
> quite a few folks don't know how to play hard-copy solitaire, so we're
> laying a bit of a double-whammy on them.  A game that one can play without
> needing to learn any rules would be better.
> 
> Can anyone suggest (free and fun, and appropriate for adults) software good
> for developing mouse skills?  A website designed for this purpose might
> also work, although several mouse-training sites I've looked at are rather
> dull.  I didn't see anything mentioned in the Web4Lib archives.
> 
> Brian Smith
> Assistant Head of Adult Services
> Villa Park (IL) Public Library
> http://www.villapark.lib.il.us/
> bsmith at linc.lib.il.us
> .. But writing only on my own behalf
> ===========
> "What can I say? Librarians rule."
> -- Regis Philbin (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 17 Feb. 2000)

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