THE PHONOSCOPE IS A COMBINED SMALL TELEVISION CAMERA AND 21-INCH TELEVISION RECEIVER BUILT INTO ONE PORTABLE INSTRUMENT. THE TWO-WAY AUDIO AND VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM MAKES POSSIBLE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS LOCATED AT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, AND BETWEEN CLASSES IN DIFFERENT SCHOOLS. CLASSES IN DIFFERENT SCHOOLS MAY HAVE DEBATES, AND…

Summarizes information gained from experienced teachers about what kinds of computer equipment schools should purchase, how the computer can be used in the classroom, and for what subject areas and grade levels they work best. (FL)

Humorist Louis Lippman describes how proper lecture etiquette requires a professor to twist repeatedly between screen and paying customers to read and explain his Powerpoint projections. Such Rotary Academic Whiplash invariably results in the gravest of musculo-pedagogical distress. (Contains 1 note.)

Physics education research increasingly makes use of video data for analysis of student learning and teaching practice. Collection of these data is conceptually simple but execution is often fraught with costly and time-consuming complications. This pragmatic paper discusses the development of systems to record and permanently archive audio and…

Proposes the possibility that in languages for business, the systematic integration and use of video can help carry the instructional load, offer teachers another instructional method, and re-engage students' interests in their own learning. (Author/CB)

The new interactive videodisk systems with augmented audio capabilities have great potential for improving the teaching of foreign languages. At present that potential is unfulfilled because the profession is following a "rear view mirror" approach to media use: first, to fixate current practice; second, to distribute it broadly; and last, to…

Eidophor, a new control layer television projector that projects a television image on a large screen, in color as well as in black and white, was field tested at The Pennsylvania State University. Objectives of the investigation were: to assess and compare the effects on learning of instruction presented by Eidophor on a large screen and in a…

The Instructional Technology Course for Teachers (ITCT) is a 15-week course to provide practicing teachers with an introduction to the use of technology in instruction. It can be used either in colleges or in school system in-service programs. The ITCT curriculum is composed of eight self-contained units of instruction, which can be put together…