A Tutor’s New Best Friend
Whilst during lock-down, it is not the most opportune time to be thinking about face to face training, we were interested to spot this little training aid. It should make classrooms and training seminars a lot easier for the tutor and teacher.
About-Face
When a teacher or tutor approaches a student, they are often faced with their keyboard and screen upside down. This makes it very difficult to type and aid the student. However, with the release of the new open-source font Lip-Flaoor, the tutor is able to use the keyboard as if it is the right way round and the right characters will appear to the student. It is available from most good font factories.
Review
- ✅The font face looks very like Arial on the screen, so if perfectly readable.
- ✅The student does not have to type any differently as they do not hold the <ctrl> key, so their experience is no different.
- ✅If the tutor can type well, the dual mapping works wonderfully, they say it is like using any standard QWERY layout the right way up.
- ❌The tutor, if not a competent typist may struggle as their fingers may not hit the “right” keys
- ❌The need to hold the <ctrl> key while typing to enable the switch can be a bit awkward.