Details a National Library of Canada project to produce a videodisc, show its value as a research tool, and demonstrate its viability as an information storage and retrieval medium. An overview and time sequence of the project, disc contents, resource materials for production, production and postproduction techniques, and project results are…

Describes an audience participation project in the classroom that approximates "real world" production techniques. (PD)

Discusses some of the changes in journalism quality--not all of them necessarily good--precipitated by electronic newsroom technology in the newsroom. Encourages journalism faculty to take advantage of the opportunity to study first-hand what these changes mean, noting that, historically, this is only the third transition print production has…

Reports the result of a program using a cable television channel to give mass communications students experience in managing budgets, people, and programing. Includes recommendations for others considering such a program. (PD)

A writer and illustrator of children's books describes the creation of his prize winning work and cautions fellow artists that special care must be taken in printing and binding if their original illustrations are to be faithfully reproduced. (RBW)

Advocates having students stage drama, especially Elizabethan, to discover the production values that add meaning to the text. (CRH)

Argues that medieval drama in performance suggests a number of important issues about the nature of literature, particularly about the way narrative and dramatic art can express the life of a community. Presents a series of exercises that start with familiar, nonthreatening situations in order to approach the richness of medieval plays and the…

This report is designed as a guide for the production of science books for primary children. Section I contains presentations on the topic of how to produce primary science books, including: an essay on the development of physics theories, the roles of science books, editing science textbooks for primary schools, editing photographic science books…

An assessment of coproductions made by the Netherlands and Belgium. (Author)

Describes a practicum course using videotape for artistic and self-discovery purposes. (CH)

Local production, particularly the do-it-yourself vaiety, should be approached from the point of view of a purposeful development process. Such a process has been implemented in the Curriculum Laboratories of the Detroit Public Schools and is outlined in the article. (Author)

Article describes one method for making high-quality, professional appearing artwork for slides. (HB)

A discussion of a television project aimed at motivating and rehabilitating hard core dropout students. (HB)

A description of a practical graphic design course for educational television production. (HB)

Discusses the nature of virtual images and how they can be plotted and used to reveal important relationships between objects and their mirror reflections. Describes some applications of virtual images in the theater and classroom. (JR)