Users are limited to launching and using applications, documents, control panels, and Apple Menu Items made available through customized setups. Mac Manager's interface totally emulates the Finder, is compatible with System 6.0.5 through 7.5, and is accelerated for the Power Macintosh. HomeReach tracks students' learning both at home and at school, giving educators and parents timely information on students' progress. This initiative ultimately involves the delivery of school curriculum into homes, libraries, and community centers through a number of methods including high-speed modem, ISDN, and broadband cable modem. The basic HomeReach package includes reading, math, early learning, and reference software for grades K through 8.
Schools can purchase optional adult or bilingual courses as supplements.
Students in grades 7-12 are eligible to enter a new, annual contest called ThinkQuest , which challenges students to work in teams with their teachers to build educational tools and materials for the Internet that can be shared with fellow students. Each entering team will consist of two or three eligible students from one, two, or three different schools, and one teacher from each school to guide and assist the team. The students are asked to create World Wide Web pages that are learning tools or educational materials that can be used by other students. Awards consist of scholarships of different monetary levels. Written proposals are due April 15, 1996.