When the author came to Villa Park High School in Orange County, California back in 1998, having just finished fourteen years in an East Los Angeles school, she expected to find communication technology already operative. It was just beginning at Bell High School where she had been, in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), with a Video…

Factors related to the production of a successful television course are discussed. These include selection of the course, its use, the talent, course design, and the probability and method of recovering the investment. (MP)

A description of the Television Training Center at the Sender Freies Berlin, which has been providing theoritical and practical training to television staff from third world countries. (Author/HB)

A number of elements of scaffolding are identified that contribute to the operationalization of real world video production projects as authentic learning environments in which students can learn the intellectual television production skills necessary for working in the television industry. Three key elements are identified. Firstly projects must…

A lecturer in the School of Education, Nottingham University, contends that teaching about the media need not be an elaborately complex business. He suggests some of the constituents of a worthwhile course, the nature and effects of television images, and areas for further investigation. (PD)

A general description of The Thomson Foundation Television College, which trains students in both television production/direction and engineering. (HB)

One of the conferences sponsored by National Instructional Television in 1968 was conducted to evaluate television materials being offered in Language Arts Education in order to stimulate effective television programing. Twelve specialists assessed materials collected from instructional television agencies across the country. They concluded that…

Presents a form for grading students in television production classes that is similar to an on-the-job-performance appraisal form. (PD)

Article describes the Television College established by the Thomson Foundation and the courses of training offered there for producers and engineers. (Author)

Outlines a project in which elementary or secondary students plan and produce an imaginary television program. The activity is intended both to educate students about television and to improve their language skills. (SJL)

A justification, curriculum, and course outline for the study of television. (CH)

Teaching television production for media literacy. (CH)

THE FRAMES OF REFERENCE FROM WHICH THE EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS WERE DISCUSSED WERE--(1) THE PRODUCER (AND HIS SITUATION) IN THE STATION AND (2) THE VIEWER (AND HIS PERCEPTION) OF EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION PROGRAM (ETV) STRUCTURE. ETV PROGRAM STRUCTURE, PROGRAM ORIGINATORS, AND THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE THE INFLUENCE OF…

The contents of this report represent a digest of activity by the San Diego Area Instructional Television Authority from the organization's inception in 1966 to 1969 when the Title III Grant expired. Each year the Authority provided instructional television to some 250,000 students and teachers. The report includes information relating to…

This is an evaluation of an experimental one-semester course, offered by the Vancouver School Board. The course provided students with the opportunity to learn the basic techniques of television production through actual experience in the studio. The evaluation design consisted of three phases: a written pre- and post-test designed to measure…