This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Sundiata: Lion King of Mali," adapted by Kim Hines and featuring Griot Alhaji Papa Susso. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) Sundiata: Man & Myth (discusses…

This paper suggests teaching strategies for grades 4 through 12 that examine the commercial media and their messages as agenda setters, i.e., as mechanisms for selecting social issues, establishing their importance, and defining socially acceptable attitudes and responses to those issues. The strategies also explore how the media can create biased…

An annotated list, by topic, of 27 books about broadcast television. (CH)

Author, vice-president and director of research at the Children's Television Workshop, describes the research conducted for Sesame Street. (MB)

Explains how ineffective journalism and speech classes were replaced by student-produced and -performed closed-circuit television newscasts. (SW)

Describes nine books available from various publishers which are recommended for the reference library of a stagecraft teacher. (RD)

Discussion of three films which document Mexican-American workers' protest movements: "Salt of the Earth,""Huelga!" and "Decision at Delano." (RD)

Examines backward chaining, a method of producing demonstration films in which sequential steps in a procedure are taught backwards; that is, the last step is taught first, then the next to the last step, and so on. A film designed to teach procedures used in a science experiment is used as an example. (JJD)

Describes a Delphi study exploring future trends in the production of instructional media in terms of the basic nature of the process and the technologies involved, and summarizes the findings. A table displaying the 116 survey items with response means and standard deviations for Rounds Two and Three is appended. (MER)

Using welding as an example, this article describes how microelectronic devices, in conjunction with human supervision, help alleviate the problems of decreasing levels of productivity. (LRA)

Shows how photography, carefully prepared, adds the dimensions of time and space to the printed page. (RL)

An international program in health professions training has involved the development of a teaching materials library by teams of African faculty authors and U.S. instructional materials specialists. Communications difficulties and differences in culture and technology have made necessary the development of ten new production and management…

Recounts an American film studies professor's professional and personal experiences in teaching in Malaysia--the campus television studios burned to the ground the morning he arrived. Comments on the difficulties in film production in developing countries and on his Malaysian students' determination and capabilities. (PA)

Explains how student-generated, computer-based multimedia projects can be meaningful learning activities to integrate into the K-12 curriculum. Describes three phases: design, including goals and objectives of the project and use of the finished product; production, including choosing multimedia software, prototyping, and usability testing; and…