In recent years, the commercial catalogues of businesses that produce teaching aids -- which, prompted by the spread of a pedagogical vision linked to activism, first appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century in parallel with the first production of school objects -- have acquired increasing importance as a research source in the field…

Scholarly web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) allow users to interact with information and data programmatically. Interacting with information programmatically allows users to create advanced information query workflows and quickly access machine-readable data for downstream computations. With the growing availability of scholarly…

PicDiversity, Inc. is working to solve the problems about media in the classroom. Where do teachers go to find diverse media for their students? Students deserve to feel recognized and valued, seeing themselves reflected in the lessons provided. This article presents PicDiversity and how it can transform media in the classroom. PicDiversity's goal…

Free or inexpensive educational materials on a wide range of subjects are available at the local, state, and national levels. Catalogs of such materials are listed with annotations. (STS)

This catalog lists curriculum guides submitted by county and local agencies throughout California. The catalog has three sections: a subject index, an institutional index, and a summary section. Listings include title, catalog number, educational level, source, date of origin, length, and a brief description of contents. (EMH)

The article lists free and low cost teaching aids which are available from 207 School Shop advertisers. (Author)

This is the eighth bibliography issued by the Educational Materials Center, and lists publications received in the Center since December 31, 1968. Annotations are provided only where the title is not self-explanatory. The entries in the main section are grouped according to subject: education (history, theories, and issues); comparative and…

The mail order catalogs of T. Eaton Company and Robert Simpson Company have been the most universally used texts for adult basic education in Canada's remoter areas. (MF)

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a free multidisciplinary catalog of digital learning materials, peer reviews, learning assignments, and member comments designed to facilitate faculty instruction. The catalog's goal is to expand the quantity and quality of peer-reviewed online teaching materials. We…

A brief, general discussion of how instructional materials catalogues can be useful to teachers. (HB)

NEARLY 5,000 EDUCATIONAL TAPES ARE CATALOGED IN A SUBJECT AREA LISTING WITH SERIES DESCRIPTION AND AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY INDIVIDUAL TITLES. TAPES WERE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF CURRICULAR RELEVANCE AND PRODUCTION QUALITY. COPIES OF THIS CATALOG ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 1201 16TH STREET, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C.…

The eighth volume in the SER-LARS (Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System) series, a diagnostic-prescriptive instructional data bank for teachers of handicapped children, inventories instructional materials by publisher. Organized alphabetically by publisher, entries include title and SER-LARS accession number. (CL)

The seventh volume in the SER-LARS (Special Education Resource Location Analysis and Retrieval System) series, a diagnostic-prescriptive instructional data bank for teachers of handicapped children, presents information on instructional materials. Listed alphabetically by title, each entry includes information on source, catalog number, and an…

This catalog lists all curriculum materials submitted for display at the 1976 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Conference in Miami Beach. Materials are grouped according to subject matter, with separate sections for general curriculum development, adult education, art, bilingual education, career education, consumer…