Out of focus person holds a piece of paper with the word 'Focus', hiding their face.

8 ways to keep your students focused when using their Mac

Note: I work in a heavily managed environment, where users cannot install apps unless they have been pre-vetted by the IT department. 1. Use apps in full-screen view Macs have the ability to show apps in full-screen view, removing the ‘Dock’ and the top menu bar from view. The full screen mode allows users to focus on the one app only, with no other distractions. Full-screen view is available for most apps on Mac OS X Lion or above (at the time of writing Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite)....

2015, June 3 · 4 min · Frederic Nevers
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Top 11 Safari extensions for teachers

Safari has allowed third-party extensions for a few years now, and there are quite a few that can be extremely useful to teachers and students. Here is my curated list. 1. Lazarus: Form recovery Ever had one of those moments when you’ve finally finished filling out a long form and hit submit only to see an error message? And when you hit the back button the form was blank…...

2014, July 4 · 5 min · Frederic Nevers