The Bible and several commentaries are used in a search to explain Joshua's "long day" in his battle with the Ammonites. (CP)

Recommends a functional/experiential approach to analysis and judgment of multimedia presentations, emphasizing structure and style of presentation, technical and aesthetic factors, value to the audience, and the critic's personal reactions. (VT)

Describes possible applications of political cartoons to historical analysis and history teaching on the college level, and presents a history of political cartoons since 1800. A brief guide to sources of political cartoons for American, English, and European history courses is included. (Author/DB)

Five criteria are discussed for selecting curriculum materials for Bicentennial celebration and study that will encourage valuing and inquiry and enrich historical perspective. Several bibliographies and sources for other instructional materials are included. (MM)

This paper describes a method of organizing subject matter and/or skills into flexible units of instruction using a competency chart approach. The competency chart allows the instructor to assess the entry competence of learners and to determine specific instructional needs. Media education for teachers is the subject focus of this article.…

A non-computerized system which is intended to facilitate teacher access to audiovisual instructional materials, uses edge-notched cards. (STS)

The author summarizes achievements of face-to-face learning linked with the use of broadcasts and printed materials as effective ways to promote adult education and national development. Unsolved problems include effective program length, feedback mechanisms, and the role of extension agents. (Author/AV)

Discusses the use of transparencies in business communication courses to illustrate graphic impact, format, and content of letters and memos. (KS)

Investigated were the attending behaviors of 70 moderately and severely retarded adolescents when exposed to various instructional media forms. (Author/DB)

Evaluated was the ability of 27 legally blind elementary students to identify and manipulate the parts of the following adapted simple machines: lever, inclined plane, wheel and axle, and pulley. (SBH)

Student media projects may serve as catalysts to return children willingly to the world of print. Slower students may be particularly receptive to this approach. (Author/STS)

The origins, objectives, and causes of the back to basics movement and its potential impact on school media programs are discussed. Four areas of opposition to school media programs by advocates of the movement are described with the future strategies they may employ to further their cause. (JPF)

Reports on an Israeli national phone-in radio program which offers junior high school students help with their homework. Argues that the program embodies and reproduces the major failings of standard school pedagogy, and offers no more than an instructional patching-up operation that ultimately reaffirms the educational status quo. (KH)

Contends teachers of aesthetic education must be trained to understand and utilize various communications media for their own purposes. Provides a typology of media characteristics useful for planning mediated instruction. (JDH)