Drafting courses at the Beverly Hills High School, California, are taught with the aid of checksheets providing step-by-step instructions of how to proceed through the course, with student work and grade records for each step. The drafting laboratory, courses, and the checksheet system are described. (MF)

SIX FILMS WERE DEVELOPED TO TEACH VISUALIZATION IN THREE DIMENSIONS FOR ENGINEERING GRAPHICS OR DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY COURSES. THE FILMS UTILIZED A "THOUGHT MODEL METHOD" WHICH HAD BEEN USED FOR OVER A DECADE BY THE INVESTIGATOR. THE METHOD CONSISTED OF TRACING IN THE AIR AND DESCRIBING RELATED POINTS, LINES, PLANES, AND SURFACES BY THE…

Visits to 35 industries and professional offices throughout California and interviews of 219 draftsmen and supervisors were conducted to determine: (1) the effects of automation on the needs of industry for draftsmen with general versus specialized training, and (2) the curricular revisions in vocational drafting programs in junior colleges to…

This article draws from the insights offered by discourse analysis and the study of gesture to examine imagination as a product of, and resource for, social action. Using data collected during ethnographic fieldwork at an architecture firm, the article explores how imagining can emerge from a group of interactants who use many semiotic media,…