Television, with its special need for movement and continuous shooting, often demands different special effects techniques from those used in films. This book covers the techniques used to create special effects for television which meet these requirements and which also require less time and money than many film techniques. Included are…

The media gondola has bulletin board space, a rear screen projection system, and a surface for displaying other audiovisual materials. It serves to encourage students, visitors, and staff to utilize the materials available in the resource center. (STS)

Because class size often limits student opportunity to handle individual models, teachers use stereoscopic projections to demonstrate structural features. Describes three-dimensional pointers for use with different projection systems so teachers can indicate a particular atom or bond to entire classes, avoiding the perspective problems inherent in…

The overhead projector is shown to be a superior alternative to the chalkboard. Uses and advantages include these: planned visual instruction with key ideas featured in color, face-to-face instruction with lights on or off, progressive revelation or serialized transparencies, and clarity of information presentation. (SC)

Explains how federal funds were spent on an educationally untried and unsuccessful system, the Electronic Video Recorder (EVR), designed by CBS and manufactured by Motorola. (MF)

A discussion of the effect of background color on the legibility of projected printed messages on transparencies. (Author)

A product review of the technological hardware necessary to the implementation of individualized instruction software'' programs. (Author/EA)

Evaluates the great variety of audiovisual communication systems which use a normal consumer TV set for playback of pictures and sound. Discusses costs, how they work, and their values and implications for educators. (RB)

AV basics--projectors and screens, from design to application, are discussed in a nontechnical approach to AV planning." (Editor)

Presents a format used in workshops with teachers and administrators to help reduce their computer anxiety. An analogy between the use of a computer and a movie projector in the classroom serves as the basis for familiarizing novices with computers. (MER)

Describes a method using lap-dissolve slide techniques with two or more slide projectors focused on a single screen for presenting visual effects that show structural features in extended arrays of atoms, or ions involving up to several hundred atoms. Presents an outline of an introduction to the structures of crystalline solids. (CS)