The American Association for School Librarians suggests an important mission for school librarians is to ensure personal growth through ongoing exposure to conferences, journal articles, webinars, presentations, and membership in professional organizations. As professional educators, School Librarians should exemplify the vision for being…

The program entitled "English in Action (EIA)", 9 year period DFID funded project in Bangladesh, was launched in 2008, for the desire to bring a change in the learning of English language. EIA works to reach a total of 25 million primary and secondary students and adult learners through communicative language learning techniques and the…

Learning should occur in social environments in which students are engaged in meaningful activities that require them to think critically and solve problems (Dewey, 1933; Phillips & Soltis, 1998). This article describes how an urban middle school interdisciplinary teaching team partnered with the authors to create a hands-on, highly engaging…

As an educational media, radio has a long and complex history in the United States, but its most extensive and important use in education took place during the School of the Air (SOA) movement. From approximately 1929 to 1975, commercial broadcast networks, state universities and departments or colleges of education, and local school boards…

Discusses the Consortium for Lifelong Learning in Arizona through Instructional Media, Inc. (CLAIM), a voluntary consortium of a wide range of agencies involved in adult education of all kinds brought together in a state network to share costs. (Author/IRT)

Details are given of the background and organization of the Curriculum Revision and Instruction in Mathematics at the Elementary Level (CRIMEL) program for undergraduates at The Ohio State University. The first three years of the program are discussed; administrative problems in grouping students for instruction, attempts to use multimedia methods…

As a description of a program designed to utilize practical methods of behavior modification in normal classroom situations, information with regard to the ten-week program's purposes and objectives, the contents of the suggested textbook, the activities and resources involved in the use of the course, and a means of evaluating the inservice…

Describes the celebrations surrounding the presentation to the Greenwich, Connecticut Public Schools of the 1979 School Library Media Program of the Year Award. Details of the Greenwich school media program are included. (CMV)

Describes the Shakespeare Project, a multimedia system on HyperCard with a two-screen workstation linking a Macintosh, videodisc player, and video monitor. States that this project brings theater to students as a serious object of study. (MG)

The final report describes the activities of the Specialized Office for Materials Distribution (SOMD) in providing physical access to media materials for the nation's handicapped. Project background, philosophy, and organization are described in an initial chapter. Succeeding chapters are devoted to a review of SOMD activities in six areas (sample…

A unique two-way, interactive aural communications system operated by the University of Wisconsin-Extension and serving over 100 locations throughout the state is described and its application to distance music education is explained. A brief survey of telephone use in education is presented, as well as studies relating the effectiveness of…

Functional requirements for a highly automated, flexible, instructional support system for aircrew training simulators are presented. Automated support modes and associated features and capabilities are described, along with hardware and software functional requirements for implementing a baseline system in an operational flight training context.…

This document contains parts four and five of a report of projects undertaken through the Hilroy Fellowship Program in Canada in 1971-72. The stated aim of the program is to encourage and reward classroom teachers who are developing new ideas for the improvement of teaching practices. The four projects reported in part four deal with instructional…

Presents a model for instructional media design, adapted from the theoretical model and viewed to work well with reasonable effort and time. An example of the model in use is provided to give evidence of reasonableness. Outlines of both the theoretical and adapted models are provided. (MP)

What do you do with a destructive student within the traditional framework who is threatened with expulsion? How about the conflicted student with personal and family problems who cannot tolerate a large classroom situation? Is there a place for the pregnant married or unmarried youngster who is too embarrassed to face her classmates? Do you…