Making the Most of AppleWorks provides educators and curriculum developers with the fundamental skills and strategies necessary to become proficient users of AppleWorks technology and to integrate it effectively into the classroom.

The text addresses issues such as “word processing” versus “typing,” the importance of communication design for today's students, and how to use the correct tools (e.g. databases and spreadsheets) to work as efficiently as possible.

The authors believe that educators should first learn basic computer skills and the “basics” of teaching (e.g., methods courses) and then bring both sets of skills—technology and “teaching”—to such tasks as software evaluation, lesson plans, incorporating technologies, etc.