Technological apparatus--including video tapes, television sets, tape cassettes, tape players, phonograph records, films, and film projectors--is inappropriate for humanities classroom instruction and should be relegated to libraries and language labs. Post experience in trying to teach freshman rhetoric using specially prepared visual tapes on…

Three class sections of a general studies biology course were involved in a study to determine the effects of behavioral objectives on achievement, using an audio-tutorial approach. Students were randomly assigned to treatment groups. Experimental Group I students were given a list of behavioral objectives prior to instruction. Group II received…

Community colleges have the hardware for using nonprint media, but fear of using the hardware prevents the implementation of media-oriented classrooms. In concentrating on using media in the composition class, teachers must overcome their fear of the equipment, learn to rely more on their own ingenuity and ability, and examine the actual cost of…

This instructional packet has four components treating various aspects of the school's approach to venereal disease instruction at the junior and senior high school levels. (1) "The Need for VD Education is a small booklet that can be used to inform staff or the general public about the alarming rise in venereal disease among teenagers. The case…

The examiner explored the relative effectiveness of multi-media presentations for introducing science lessons to fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students. The major design variables were the pattern of sequencing used to display the visual content and the quality of voice selected. Four slide-tapes were prepared. Either a traditional or…

A proactive guidance approach focuses on the child's self-involvement in his decision-making and in his subsequent responsibility as an individual and as a member of an interacting society. The decision-making process places emphasis on the school's creation of a learning environment which enhances a child's natural inquisitiveness about himself…

A list of measurable behavioral objectives (MBO) is presented in this booklet for use throughout the Articulated Multimedia Physics Course. The objectives are divided into terminal and enabling objectives. Computer analyses of student's achievement are given in the form of the MBO number. The objectives are grouped into 14 lessons: measurement and…

The aim of media anthropologists is to provide the general public with entertaining, relevant anthropological background information through the public media. This quarterly newsletter disseminates information, promotes awareness of present physical and social issues, and offers a means of intercommunication on the topic of Media Anthropology.…

A low cost method for delivery of computer services to homes and schools through interactive television called time-shared, interactive, computer controlled, information television (TICCIT) has technical qualities such that it is individualized, computerized, multimedia, and provides unlimited points of entry and delivery of information. TICCIT's…

This study represents the second segment of the 3-year longitudinal study to test the effectiveness of the Listen Look Learn (LLL) Multi-Media Communication Skills System. Data were analyzed for the 1968-69 school year for 159 students who participated in LLL instruction during both their first and second year, 113 second-year students who used a…

For those school districts who wished an evaluation of the Listen Look Learn (LLL) system at grade 1 before expanding it into higher grades, a small study was conducted to determine what effect the transition to a basal reader would have on the child taught beginning reading in the LLL program. Two school districts submitted end-of-first-grade…

Described in this instructional aid pamphlet is the use of an instructional technology approach known as audible Multi-Imagery (AMI) to achieve some of the broad goals of environmental education. AMI refers to the integral development and display of two or more simultaneously projected visual images either with or in combination with 2 x 2-inch…

Neil Postman's article, "The Politics of Reading," reprinted here from the May 1970 "Harvard Educational Review," is the core of this book. Eight persons involved in various ways in the communications field (Claudia Converse, Ralph Staiger, William Jenkins, Robert E. Beck, John Donovan, Frank Smith, Lee Deighton, and Robert F. Hogan) reply to…

An evaluation of INCE's Department of Correspondence Instruction, Caracas, Venezuela, was carried out to evaluate the present program, suggest ways in which the present program can be expanded, and advise the staff in the use of media and technology. The six chapters of the report are as follows: 1. Introduction; 2. Background to Development; 3.…

Program activities inherent in and important to career education include such elements as school-industry cooperation, job placement, school-community coordination, and innovative instructional methods. This report contains abstracted descriptions of vocational guidance and career education programs in New Jersey. Presented first are brief…