The Nassau Educational Resource Center is a multimedia, multi-area curriculum and instructional materials center, with an educational communications training component. The catalog contains listings of the professional resources made available at the Center in the area of multi-ethnic studies by the Racial Ethnic Action Project (REAP). REAP,…

Nine papers from a two-day workshop concentrate on curriculum development, guidance, and counseling. Topics covered in these papers include media and instruction, humanistic education, the instructional team approach, media and methods, Title IV Elementary Secondary Education Act, media and guidance, and the art of writing a grant. (DS)

Based on the premise that coordination of media resources with the curriculum involves the cooperation of teachers and library media specialists, this guide is designed to enhance both cooperative planning and communication. It contains: (1) six media and curriculum coordination case studies portraying typical scenarios faced by classroom teachers…

This evaluative checklist for the evaluation of educational media programs in higher education is designed so that it can be self-administered without extensive inventory of all resource items within the program. Fundamental elements included in this checklist are assumed to be common to most educational media programs. These include (1)…

This evaluative checklist for the evaluation of educational media services in public schools is designed so that it can be self-administered without extensive inventory of all resource items within the program. The elements contained in this checklist are assumed to be common to most educational media programs. These include (1) administrator and…

Part 8 of a series of 13 instructor's manuals for the competency based training of curriculum consultants for exceptional children focuses on the development of materials and media. Three competencies are considered: (1) that a curriculum consultant should be capable of providing direction in the development of teacher made instructional…

The Teaching Methods and Materials Centre of the University of Papua and New Guinea had four main objectives for 1973: (1) the collection of teaching and learning materials, (2) teacher and inservice education, (3) provision of information services for students and faculty at the university, and (4) research and curriculum development. Details are…

This collection of articles is designed to acquaint elementary and secondary school teachers with new educational media and with effective uses of old media. Two articles discuss the media concept and its appropriateness to the study of geography. In several articles, commonly used materials such as wall maps, globes, and elements of the classroom…

Topics selected for this workshop reflect the growing concern for the role of the library media specialist as an integral member of the school's instructional team, working cooperatively with administrators, teachers, students, and members of the community in the evaluation, selection, and use of resources which support and enrich learning…

Designed for training school library/media specialists to establish media programs as an integral part of the school curriculum, this text is divided into four general areas. The first two chapters focus on what society expects of the schools and how educators respond. Systems principles are the shown to apply to the building of an educational…

Describes an introductory media course developed at Purdue University Calumet for undergraduate elementary education students which consisted of individualized instruction modules and seminars. Components of the course are explained, including equipment operations, media production, and instructional design, and the role of the Educational Media…

An individualized, self-paced curriculum at Temple University Dental School is being used to break the lock-step pattern of the lecture-oriented system and to help students reach the clinical learning environment more quickly. Freshmen begin work in periodontology with 12 programed lessons studied in a Learning Resources Center open 75 hours a…