Intended to help administrators and theatre teachers provide a theatre arts program accessible to disabled actors, technicians, and audiences, the guide focuses on ways to alleviate limitations in the theatre. The following topics are addressed (sample subtopics in parentheses): awareness (use of improvisations and simulations); acclimatization…

This guide provides the highlights of a demonstration session on how to prepare a newsletter using Multiscribe and Appleworks, as well as suggestions for preparing other publications. It includes basic guidelines for preparing a newsletter; directions for using Multiscribe/Appleworks to produce a newsletter; a sample media center newsletter;…

This paper explains the principles involved in tape editing and recording for foreign language teaching and in the assessment of the quality of the finished product. Three major points involved in tape making are discussed: (1) compilation of a listening text (requires familiarity with foreign language learning and teaching, as well as an…

A videodisc system provides a means of storing substantial volumes of pictorial information. Individual pictures and sequences of images may be accessed directly thereby providing many novel approaches to image retrieval and display. When combined with an interactive computer system, a videodisc is able to create a useful tool to aid the…

A sequel to the booklet "How Games and Simulations Can Be Used in Tertiary Education," this booklet begins by looking at ways in which participative exercises of the game/simulation/case study type can be used by teachers and trainers working in further and higher education. A process for the identification of a clearly-defined need for…

Designed to aid in planning the best use of cable television in a particular educational situation, this pamphlet was prepared by a joint committee of the Ohio Educational Library Media Association and the Greater Miami Valley Instructional Television Council in order to share their plans, experiences, problems, and solutions with others who are…

The 11 papers in this collection focus on research in instructional television, the theme of a conference attended by media producers, researchers, and policy makers from Australia, Britain, Canada, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States. The opening paper by Deane Hutton discusses two parallel but contrasting…

The interactive classroom television system (ICTS) that is described permits partially sighted students and their teachers to be in continuous, two-way visual communication. It was implemented in Rowland Heights, California, as part of the second phase of a project aimed at evaluating how the ICTS helps in teaching basic skills to partially…

This report describes the state-of-the-art of audio cassette technology (ACT) and reports findings from field tests, case studies, and pilot projects in several countries which demonstrate the potential of audio cassettes as a medium for communicating with rural people. Specific guidance is also offered on how a project can use cassettes as a…

This guide, itself composed of four modules, describes the preparation and use of modular materials for training programs in educational planning, educational administration and management, and educational facilities design. An initial module sets the context by considering the planning of an overall training program into which use of an…

This paper describes an in-service course for the design, development, and evaluation of mediated learning activities. Each Learning Activities Package (LAP) has six basic components: concept, rationale, objectives, preassessment, activities, and evaluation. Each of these components is outlined, with emphasis placed on writing objectives…

Several alternative methods of presenting written material within a graphic were evaluated to provide empirical data on how technical writers and artists might improve the comprehensibility of graphics. The number, location, and sequence of "callouts"--the pictorial part references using arrows--were systematically varied in a series of…

The interpretation semiotic system that governs interpretation performance pertains to a distinct code of stylized conventions and includes all of the visual and auditory aspects that are generally salient to the characteristics of a performance. The selection of a particular convention for the interpretation of a specific text involves an act of…

In theatrical production, skillful design is effective communication. A study of audience response to nine drama settings gives positive evidence that the successful designer creates "signposts and symbols" that communicate instantaneously to the observer. The setting is a message. All of the scenic elements must be unified in a clear and concise…