Desktop video consists of integrating the processing of the video signal in a microcomputer. This definition implies that desktop video can take multiple forms such as virtual editing or digital video. Desktop video, which does not imply any particular technology, has been approached in different ways in different technical fields. It remains a…

This paper reviews the literature on multimedia research focusing on what it says about the role of multimedia in instruction and whether extant research is sufficient and valid. The following topics are reviewed: definitions of multimedia; using multimedia research to evaluate multimedia programs; concerns over research; and suggestions for…

This document features an annotated bibliography of social studies materials from a variety of media and prepared by the Department of Public Instruction of North Carolina. Materials listed include books, books in a series, reference books, filmstrips (sound), and video cassettes. (DB)

Suggests a supplementary activity, a radio talk show, for botany students. The show highlights the current undertakings of plant scientists. (LS)

Suggests ways in which the "drinking duck," a seemingly self-propelled duck toy, can be used to illustrate the principles of phase equilibria and thermodynamics. (MLH)

Describes how to play "Periodic Creep," a chemistry game in which the periodic table is the board. (LS)

Describes a game in which students practice process skills in the science classroom. (LS)

Indicates the media center's role in school humanities programs. (PF)

Describes the principal modules of analog electronic music synthesizers and discusses some ways that a synthesizer has been used in demonstrations, in psychophysical experiments, and in an undergraduate laboratory course in the physics of music and acoustics. Considers the synthesis of both steady and transitory auditory phenomena. (Author/MLH)

Describes a device which employs two diffraction gratings and three or four simple lenses to produce arbitrary absorption or emission spectra that may be doppler shifted and spectroscopically examined by students some distance away. It may be regarded as a sort of artificial star whose spectrum may be analyzed as an undergraduate laboratory…

Stresses the importance of effective visual aids in physics instructions and the creation of motion pictures through animation. (CP)

This is a questionnaire to be filled out by any institution having at least one sound recording in an uncommonly taught language. The questionnaire will be used in the second of a series of inquiries designed to facilitate information exchange among members of NALLD. (AM)