Research on children's television suggests that preschool programs can facilitate literacy and language development. In 1998 Whitehurst and Lonigan described two interdependent sets of skills involved in literacy acquisition: "outside-in" or oral language skills and "inside-out" or code-related skills. Outside-in skills support children's…

A NEW METHOD FOR EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION UTILIZES TWO CAMERAS AND ONE CREW MEMBER. A STUDIO-TYPE CAMERA, EQUIPPED WITH AN ELECTRONIC VIEWFINDER, FOCUS KNOB, FLEXIBLE THREE-CASTOR DOLLY, AND ZOOM LENS, FOLLOWS THE INSTRUCTOR AND COVERS HIS ACTIONS AND DEMONSTRATIONS. A SECOND CAMERA IS FIXED AND UNATTENDED. IT IS A SMALL INDUSTRIAL TYPE CAMERA…

The suggestions offered in this book are divided into sections based on the amount of equipment available to the teacher. Preparation of original instructional tapes is described. Suggestions for administrators include the effective use of television in in-service training, student orientation, observation programs, school safety programs, program…

Television presents a new, flexible, and inexpensive means of illustrating a lesson. Television is both audio and visual, to use the term audio-visual, applied in the past particularly to motion pictures, film strips, slides, recordings, and similar valuable aids to teaching. Television is a picture in motion with sound occurring at the same…

Proceedings of the Educational Television Institute include the following topics: the potential of instructional television by Richard Barnes and Mitchel Chetel; the school television production center at Port Jefferson High School in New York State, described by Joseph Thom; Peter Derr's comments on classroom television; applied instructional…

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of distance education facilities controlled by instructors who operate the equipment themselves versus those controlled by operators who merely have technical control over the transmission. Guidelines are suggested for both approaches to production and the impact on quality, costs, flexibility, and…

General session, small group activities, and on-site visits are represented in these papers from a conference which had the objectives of defining alternatives for systematic curriculum development, providing for the interchange of experiences in determining needs and instructional specifications for material production, and developing a plan for…

The material in this report consists of transcriptions of audiotapes of the general session speeches and the reports of the concurrent sessions of this conference. The topics of the six general session speeches were: the responsibility of the educational communicator in the political process, commercial television programing for children,…

Provides a history of the Instructional Technology Center at Iowa State University and describes its present operations. Highlights include an organizational chart; classroom services; instructional development services, related to faculty development and courseware creation; creative services that support multimedia, graphics, and television…

Discusses successes and failures in the field of instructional technology and suggests methods to design more appropriate systems that would present fewer barriers to adoption. Topics discussed include educational television; videotext; video technology; audiovisual aids; teleconferencing; computer assisted instruction; interactive video; CD-ROM;…

Reviews the development of locally produced instructional television to supplement curriculum, emphasizing that programs must be designed to illustrate/augment a particular course's material. Describes required equipment, setup, preproduction planning, taping (sample script available), and provides results of student evaluation of instruction and…

This manual contains instructional materials for the course Media and Technology for Teaching, which is required for students in the teacher certification program at Miami University, Ohio. Based on 16 stated themes related to professional development, the program features the integration of and exposure to educational technology in the course,…

Helpful aids to finding information on all new methods and media being introduced in schools is one of the services which has been extended by the Office of Education over many years. A comprehensive radio bibliography was supplied when radio was first introduced into the classroom. In 1948, television was added to this annotated listing. Now in…

A growing awareness of the potential importance to education of media such as radio, television, and motion pictures, is reflected in the notable increase in published literature on the subject.. This first revision in 4 years of the Office of Education's "Radio and Television Bibliography" contains significant additions in virtually every aspect…

The purpose of this annotated guide is to assist educators in locating sources of information leading to the more effective use of educational media in teaching and learning situations. Its 6 parts provide: (1) published lists of new educational media--motion pictures, filmstrips, and records, tapes and transcriptions; (2) information about…