The films described in this catalog were produced by schools or school-related organizations and were designed to meet the "relevant needs expressed by a broad spectrum of media personnel, students, and educators across the country." The catalog describes seventeen series and eight single films. For each of the series a description is presented…

A course titled "Editing As a Way of Life," dealing with communications media, was tried out at the senior high school in University City, Missouri. A total of 38 activities were devised to meet the 16 objectives of the course, which were subsumed under six categories: perception, knowledge, creativity, skills, production techniques, and…

The underlying theory of the Teacher Corps Rural-Migrant programs in visual literacy is developed in this paper. The primary objective of teaching communication skills to non-native speakers of English through the use of motion picture cameras is detailed in discussion of how visual literacy motivates students and improves curriculum development.…

Quality is seen as a primitive characteristic of media, but one that can be manipulated in various ways. Since media vary in their "relating power," that is, their ability to involve students, standards of quality also may vary in the ways certain production technique parameters, such as lighting, sound, and exposure, are manipulated. Some media,…

Describes an undergraduate psychology course focusing on children's social development during the middle childhood years. Students select, view, and analyze a feature film using theory and research presented in the course. Includes a table listing 18 films used in the course. (CFR)

In 2004 the Australia Council of Deans of Education (ACDE) released a report entitled "New teaching, new learning: A vision for Australian education". This report was prepared on behalf of the ACDE by Mary Kalantzis and Andrew Harvey, respectively the President and Executive Officer of the ACDE. The argument put forward in the report is…

This study is performed by conducting a survey analysis to investigate students' attitudes and preferences towards learning English at Kuwait University in non-English major ESL students. The sample size will be roughly 21-22% of a total of 4950 college level English Language learners at Kuwait University where specific English courses are part of…

Categorizing Teacher Behavior, developed to measure acquisition of concepts portrayed in the Concepts and Patterns in Teacher-Pupil Interaction film series, measures the ability to identify and categorize instances of the specificed concepts as they are portrayed in reasonably complex filmed classroom interactions. The film series itself is based…

This publication is the product of a college course which focused on the general concept of race and ethnicity in films from a cross-national comparative perspective. The authors hope that the booklet will be useful to teachers who present courses on film and history, for those who use film in their general history courses, and for those who teach…

THIS HANDBOOK FOR PROGRAM PLANNERS HAS CHAPTERS ON EVERY TYPE OF FILM USE, WRITTEN BY PEOPLE ACTIVE IN THE FILM FIELD IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES--PROGRAM PLANNING, FILM EVALUATION, PRESENTATION AND PROMOTION, FILMS IN SMALL TOWNS, IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES, IN MUSEUMS, USED FOR DISCUSSION GROUPS, COMMUNITY AND COLLEGE FILM SOCIETIES, SCHOOL, CHURCH, AND…

AN AUDIOVISUAL FILM WAS PRODUCED TO HELP RESEARCHERS AND CLINICIANS ESTABLISH THEIR RELIABILITY OF JUDGMENTS OF MISARTICULATIONS IN CHILDREN'S SPEECH. THE FINAL FILM SCRIPT WAS PREPARED AFTER A PRELIMINARY STUDY HAD BEEN EVALUATED BY PANELS OF BOTH TRAINED AND UNTRAINED LISTENERS. SIX CHILDREN, BETWEEN THE AGES OF 6 AND 13, WHOSE MISARTICULATION…

THIS BRIEF BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 76 ENTRIES UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADINGS--GENERAL REFERENCES, GENERAL AUDIOVISUAL REFERENCES, MANUALS--EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS, PSYCHOLOGY--METHODOLOGY, OVERHEAD PROJECTION, PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, LANGUAGE LABORATORIES, FILMS, 8MM AND SINGLE CONCEPT FILMS, TELEVISION, COMPUTERS, SCHOOL BUILDINGS, AND COPYRIGHT LAW. (RS)

This manual, to be used in conjunction with 10 demonstration films on the teaching of German in introductory college courses, serves as a guide to the objectives and teaching techniques illustrated in each of the films. The films demonstrate to future teachers of German workable teaching techniques designed to produce specific competencies and…

Filmmaking, when used to structure the activities of an art program, can become a tool to enrich the educational environment, to detect and observe all types of physical phenomena, and to extend the limits of observation. Designed to stimulate filmmaking in the elementary school, this handbook documents an approach to adding filmmaking to a…

Observes the pitfalls and possibilities of using feature films as educational tools for religious exploration. Praises film for its ability to synthesize a number of cultural, moral, and narrative elements. Lists several simplistic and reductionist approaches to be avoided. (MJP)