Details a case study of using narrative theater to engage with a wider variety of subject matter. Defines narrative theater as a group performance that features narrative as the primary expressive vehicle. Outlines the process of writing and directing a student performance of Tim O'Brien's novel "The Things They Carried," which deals with the…

Describes a project by Media Projects International to create a visual database of 56,000 items from The Wellcome Institute Library for the History of Medicine (United Kingdom). Topics discussed include identifying the users; defining the display system; project management; production processes; designing the photographic capture process; and…

Compares the processes and costs of publishing a book in printed versus electronic format. Discussion includes distribution by disk versus network distribution; flow charts for the two production processes; and implications for publishers resulting from cost savings for electronic publishing.(LRW)

Describes the step-by-step process of writing a bootable CD-ROM. Discusses equipment and background. Steps include copying the hard drive, creating an image, editing, determining boot catalog placement, and creating the boot record. (AEF)

Explores the position that more energy is conserved through recycling secondary materials than is generated from municipal solid waste incineration. Discusses one component of a lifecycle analysis--a comparison of energy requirements for manufacturing competing products. Includes methodological issues, energy cost estimates, and difficulties…

Describes the following steps in CD-ROM production: (1) information base creation; (2) data preparation, conversion, and verification; and (3) indexing and premastering. Cost factors for each step and overall trends in CD-ROM production costs are also discussed. (three references) (EA)

Describes efforts of Serveis de Cultura Popular, a nonprofit foundation in Barcelona (Spain), in the coproduction of educational videos. Highlights include contests that awarded prizes for completed videos, video scripts, or ideas for videos; coproduction with educational television; coproduction of an interactive videodisc; and international…

This issue presents 11 articles that address issues relating to the production of CD-ROMs. Highlights include current uses of CD-ROM; standards; steps involved in producing CD-ROMs, including data capture, conversion, and tagging, product design, and indexing; authoring; selecting indexing and retrieval software; costs; multimedia CD-ROMs; and…

Discussion of the development of educational radio programs highlights one particular program, "Kid's Corner;" introduces a method to identify and classify the attributes from the radio program; discusses those attributes which were shown to relate to children's judgments of appeal of the program; and suggests implications for…

A sample of 72 students tested manufacturing simulation software about production planning. The package enriched learning, although compared to lecture only, no clear-cut advantages were perceived. Amount of time between lecture and lab experience did not affect learning or retention. (SK)

Explores the underlying psychology upon which media programs and services are developed and describes the psychology of producing media. Topics include editing, including non-linear editing; emotions; language, or semantics; symbols, or semiotics; production techniques, including narration and user control; motion pictures and television;…

Outlines seven common mistakes in student-produced videos; suggests ways to avoid them. Mistakes include too much open screen space; unnatural, abrupt transitions between camera shots; odd juxtapositions of performers with background objects; endless talk without shot changes; no space between the subject's head and top of the video screen;…

Discusses the main objectives of school newspaper production, emphasizing media competence and hypermedia literacy, which may be achieved through work with electronic papers on the Internet. Compares the linear reading mechanisms of traditional papers to those of online papers based on hypertext and provides rules for writing an electronic…

Describes the development, production, and performance of "Harvest Ceremony: Beyond the Thanksgiving Myth," a museum theatre piece performed annually at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian's Gustav Heye Center. Notes that the play gives the audience a fresh perspective on the first Thanksgiving from the Native point…

For over one hundred and fifty years practitioners, critics, and historians have continuously challenged and added dimensions to the meaning and uses of photography. Yet there has been little challenge to its highly disturbing linguistic conventions. By uncritically accepting and using these conventions, those involved in the culture of…