A brief look at how one sixth-grade class produced its own photo-stories as an exercise in visual literacy. (AK)

The articles in this volume have been selected from issues of "Media & Methods" of the past seven years. The first part of the book considers the problems and opportunities inherent in classroom film use, in articles by David A. Sohn, Charles F. Greiner, William Kuhns, Hugh Gilmore, Richard Lacey, Richard Beach, and Ken Donelson. Essays deal with…

Describes the integration of film production into the English classroom program; activities include scene development, film viewing, script writing, production, and financing. (MAI)

Describes a set of exercises that help students learn about filmmaking. (TO)

The author describes a secondary level course in which students make their own audiovisual productions to illustrate social studies issues. (DE)

Because of aesthetic and technical demands, the industrial arts department is often the natural home for teaching film-making and film-study; a wide variety of resources are available to help the industrial arts teacher prepare himself well to be on the leading edge of the fastest-spreading curricular change. (AJ)

This booklet is intended for teachers who are now teaching units in film production as part of a program in communication or who wish to begin work with filmmaking in such a program. The first section is intended to serve as a brief introduction to film theory, while a major portion of the rest of the booklet is devoted to film projects which may…

The purpose of this study was to discuss ideas on the nature of filmmaking, filmmakers, and viewers; provide a philosophy of teaching filmmaking for art education; survey the growth of filmmaking-in-school curriculums; show the development and operation of the National Endowment for the Arts and Office of Education Filmmakers-in-the-Schools…

The purposes of this study are to develop a method by which a symbolic mode in general and a particular mode, filmmaking, can be studied and to present a demonstration of this method and the results of this particular analysis. Eight groups of teenagers, males and females, were taught to make films using 16mm equipment. The students came from four…

Over ten years ago, in a report on the process of education, Jerome Bruner dealt with the advantages of using film and other audiovisual materials. First he said that film can help use and develop attention. Secondly, he identified film as one of the "devices for vicarious experience." He said that film can be used as a dramatizing device, as a…

Following a discussion of the similarities and differences among the various communications media, the two main sections of this monograph describe ways to teach the skills of viewing and to study the moving image. The assumption is that television and film have unique characteristics that differentiate them from speech and books, requiring…

Discusses using educational and popular films and television for history instruction. Argues that students need training to see the bias built into film making through the editing process. Urges that critical thinking must be developed in students to make use of mass media coverage of historical and current events as teaching tools. (DK)

The introductory chapter of this paper asserts that film can be an integral part of the classroom language arts program and shows the relationship of filmmaking to literature appreciation, communication skills, reading, and the development of creativity. Chapter two justifies film as a creative art that should be taught to children; chaper three…