As a school technology specialist and lab teacher, I ordered two of these keyboards for one of my preprimary classrooms.



The item I received is much larger than the item pictured. Maybe they keyboard I received is a newer version, but I intentionally ordered the one pictured because it was larger keys but still has a small enough frame to fit on a smaller desk or table. The one I received is HUGE. It has a whole top portion above the keys with volume buttons and some other function keys. The added size makes it too large to put on a smaller desk.



About the key size - This keyboard is the same size as a standard keyboard WITH A NUMBER KEYPAD, but this one doesn't have a number keypad. The keys themselves are huge! There is no way a tiny, preschool-sized hand or fingers could learn to type on this. That being said, I wouldn't expect a four-year-old to touch-type either.



I do like that all of the letters on the keys are shown as capitals, as early letter recognition is taught with capital letters rather than lowercase. Using a regular QWERTY keyboard often trips kids up because they get confused between a lowercase "L" and a capital "i." I also appreciate the colors; they're wonderful and make it easy to describe what keys to touch. Many kids have a hard time remembering to space between words with first typing, so I do with that the spacebar key had it's own separate color.



They keyboard works appropriately when plugged in and our Windows-based computer quickly recognized it. I did not test it on Mac OS. I also can't attest to the longevity of the product, as I just got the keyboards. :)



Overall, good keyboard in theory, but execution could be better. Oh, and list the correct item!