Describes the production of pilot tape that used the strengths of video successfully. (BD)

How to chose key, fill, and backlight for television close-ups. (Author/LS)

A primer of camera motions, angles, shots, and transitions. (Author)

Tells how to help students work together to produce productions among several slide projectors. (BD)

What equipment capability is necessary for good TV audio. (BD)

Presents a step-by-step description of a safe and sure process that students can follow to produce durable, storable, and re-usable (or cheap-enough-to-throw-away) scenery. Includes figures to illustrate the process. (PRA)

In this article, the author chronicles his odyssey to search for an elusive prize. He was teaching a television production class that had many students and little equipment. The equipment he had was barely consumer grade. He needed to replace it with higher grade equipment as well as massively increase the quantities of everything he had so more…

While librarians and users have been inundated with advice on how to produce content for MySpace, blogs, and other Web 2.0 services, there's been much less discussion about using newer technologies to consume all this new content efficiently. These technologies are new to everyone, and the flood is hitting all people at the same time. People must…

The development of instructional software is a complex process, posing high demands to the technical and didactical expertise of developers. Domain specialists rather than professional developers are often responsible for it, but authoring tools with pre-structured templates claim to compensate for this limited experience. This study compares…

In like manner as conventional education and teaching approaches distance education tends to model the same procedures. Indeed, formerly enriched on printed material served as a primary source. However, thanks to the developments in technology and evolution in education, computerised information has made inroads in distance education programmes.…

The project described in this article explores the transition from a paper-based book, which deals with higher education (HE) ranking tables, namely "The Times Good University Guide" (GUG), to a fully customizable e-book. This article sets the background of the project, identifies design research as the general methodological approach,…

When the author came to Villa Park High School in Orange County, California back in 1998, having just finished fourteen years in an East Los Angeles school, she expected to find communication technology already operative. It was just beginning at Bell High School where she had been, in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), with a Video…

A discussion of why ascertaining on-location power and light requirements is vital. (Author)

A discussion of how ENG (Electronic News Gathering) equipment makes location production easy, but only pre-planning makes it good. (Author)