This second edition directory contains information about more than 1,500 living poets whose work has been published in the United States. The primary purpose of the directory is to help groups and individuals locate contemporary poets so that they can sponsor appearances by them. For each poet, the directory tries to provide a current address,…

The first in a series of bibliographies lists approximately 400 instructional materials grouped under the following four areas of personal health: dental health, first aid and survival, nutrition, and safety education. It is noted that all of the materials listed were suggested by teachers after careful screening, including evaluation with…

A unique system for writing and producing multimedia technical presentations is said to make it relatively easy for any communications professional to get involved with multimedia. Projection equipment and screen numbers are to be chosen strictly on the basis of content; dissolve effects with 35mm slides are described as the key. Central themes…

The 17 reading projects described in this report involve the use of media in teaching reading. They range from a media project for culturally distinct and geographically isolated pupils in Nye County, Nevada, to an experience in multimedia perception which took place in a vocational technical school in Quincy, Massachusetts. Several of the…

This 38-item annotated bibliography lists publications of organizations and periodicals alphabetically by author. Topics include instructor and student manuals for studying visual language, visual literacy and remedial and developmental reading, films, audiovisual instruction, various aspects of visual literacy in the classroom, photography and…

The Fairfax County Library converted from a card catalog to a book catalog format in 1963. The first book catalogs were produced by the Sequential Card (SC) process. The master cards were prepared by the library and sent to Science Press, where copy was prepared on IBM cards, coded for sequential filing, and photographed to prepare page plates,…

Commercially available audiovisual materials to be used in conjuncton with the teaching of library science is the subject of this selective, non-evaluative bibliography. Unless otherwise specified, the entries are films. The citations were found in various general bibliographies. Annotations are presented as given in the various bibliographic…

Individualizing instruction is not in itself the answer to the problem of teaching all children to read. With the development of many new materials and devices, problems relative to meeting the needs of each child may be compounded. There is danger that the child may become isolated from what should be a community of learners. Reading as a social…

To vicariously condition either fear or a positive emotional response, films in which a 5-year-old male model manifested one or the other response were shown to nursery school children. The measure of vicarious conditioning was the children's rate of response to the conditioned stimulus and a controlled stimulus in several operant situations after…

Sixty second grade children were randomly assigned to same sex pairs and each pair was randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups: aggressive cartoon, nonaggressive cartoon, and no cartoon. Results indicated that there was no difference among the groups on measures of interpersonal aggression although boys exhibited significantly more…

Designed to enrich the reading program, this bibliography lists books, films, filmstrips, and records for fifth-grade children. The list, which is divided according to readability into easy, average, and difficult, is prepared from the suggested lists of the Ginn, Houghton Mifflin, Lippincott, and Scott, Foresman reading series. The bibliography…

Fifty-seven selected 16mm films are listed under the headings: General Interest Films, General Science Films, Physics Films, Chemistry Films, and Biology Films. The listing of each film includes a brief description of content and recommended grade levels. References are given to booklets in The Atomic Energy Commission's "Understanding the…

Three hundred and six 8mm cartridge-type films were produced to provide deaf children instruction in and practice with noun vocabulary, question forms, prepositions, and speechreading. Films were placed in 12 classes. Method of presentation and time spent was determined by individual teachers, most of whom had attended a three-day orientation…

Education for Survival (EFS) was a project, funded under ESEA Title II, to provide elementary and secondary school teachers in District 50 of Colorado with multimedia materials on environmental education. Materials were stored and delivered to the schools in a mobile educational resources center/classroom (ECO-EMM). The bulk of this document…

Research attempted to determine the appropriate level of the past tense of verbs classified in the Functional Basic Word List for Special Pupils (Stanwix House List). The subjects were primary level educable mentally handicapped (EMH) children. Eight verbs were selected from each of groups A, B, and C of level 1 of the Stanwix House List. Results…