The purpose of the institute was to expand the school librarian's traditional concept of the library and to make the librarian capable of selecting, cataloging and circulating the major types of media. Emphasis was placed on a single multimedia catalog in one alphabet in order to provide access to the message, regardless of the medium. The report…

According to this guide the teachers' library is: (1) a collection of books and materials housed in one or several places; (2) a flexible service, not a location; (3) a collection of materials in the various subject areas as well as materials on methodology; (4) a collection of materials for specialists and for teachers with only general…

Today's children receive information in relatively unstructured form through communications media which surmount barriers of time and space. In comparison, traditional sequential learning may seem slow and uninteresting. Technological innovation in education would make it possible to place emphasis on student discovery through informative media,…

Research in instructional media needs to relate itself to research in other fields, e.g., human development, individual differences, and information processing, being nourished by other theories and in turn nourishing them. Thus it needs to deal with the functions of stimuli, laying the foundations of a prescriptive theory that concerns itself…

The contents of this report represent a digest of activity by the San Diego Area Instructional Television Authority from the organization's inception in 1966 to 1969 when the Title III Grant expired. Each year the Authority provided instructional television to some 250,000 students and teachers. The report includes information relating to…

This is one of a series of eight Teacher Education Modules developed by Adams State College Teacher Corps Program. The dual purpose of these modules is stated as follows: trying to understand children and their needs and becoming familiar with and developing criteria for evaluating children's literature. The objectives of the modules, which are…

This document lists and describes materials developed by the National Center for the Development of Training Materials in Teacher Education and designed to be used in the acquisition of teaching skills. Nine products from the center are listed. The following characteristics are cited for each entry: primary developers, product description,…

The manual is designed to provide instructors in adult basic education with discussion and activities materials which treat the subject of environment and society. Each of the three topics ("People and Their Needs,""Understanding the City," and "Improving the City Environment") is comprised of objectives, background information for the instructor,…

The purpose of this study was to test the relative effectiveness of two different Readers Theatre techniques with regard to audience understanding of a certain character in the literature. Four experimental groups, each with about 22 students, were selected from sophomore American literature classes at Upper Arlington High School in Columbus,…

This list of recommended books and monographs was compiled by the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development during a project designed to develop and test procedures to evaluate and disseminate information on training of education research and development (R&D) personnel. The purpose of the bibliography is to provide guidance…

The objectives of this project were to provide Central Wyoming College and School District No. 25 with an audiovisual media specialist who would be able to develop audiovisual materials and programs to complement existing learning activity packets, as well as supplemental materials. Program integration was sought between the college and high…

The manual is intended to facilitate the development of instructional materials for handicapped children which are suitable for wide dissemination, and provides guidelines and checklists for planning, producing, and assessing instructional materials. Introductory material includes an evaluation form for the guide, definitions of terms used in the…

Since indexing systems concentrate upon the information content of materials and not upon their form, instructional media centers (IMC) can use one system for all media. Content descriptors can be selected from a thesaurus of accepted terms, from the title of the material, or from an analysis of the content. The first of these three methods is the…

These selected readings are designed for teachers, media specialists and administrators interested in effective methods of planning, designing and implementing individualized instruction programs. Sections deal with 1) problems encountered in making the transition from group to individualized instruction; 2) several established and sucessful…

The ten articles which comprise this collection are intended to stimulate creative thinking about ways to improve existing educational media selection centers and to develop new ones. The authors share their professional judgments about how to organize, staff, administer and equip centers, how to use them to evaluate media, and how they work as…