Presented are the proceedings of a national workshop, titled "Media as an Instructional Aid with the Deaf-Blind", designed to introduce new ideas, techniques, and approaches to media production methods for the deaf-blind and to examine copyright laws as they pertain to reproduction of materials for educational use. Entries by media personnel…

A seminar on media and the Manpower Development Training Act focused on the following aspects of media applications: (1) the expected outcomes for using media in career education, (2) appropriate materials and equipment to achieve indicated goals, (3) fundamentals of effective media use, (4) techniques for local production of materials, (5)…

Covering all grade levels, this bibliography has been compiled to serve as a guide to school districts considering the purchase of instructional materials on the metric system. The materials are listed alphabetically by type in the following order: charts, films, filmstrips, games, kits, posters, recordings, slides, transparencies, miscellaneous…

The classroom teacher is provided with a series of exercises to develop skills in three broad areas of audiovisual technology: (1) creating instructional materials--including exercises emphasizing lettering, display boards, chalk boards, graphs, laminating, duplicating, transparencies, audio tapes, visual literacy sequences, multimedia…

An experiment in which a minicomputer was used as an instructional aid in a calculus classroom and as a laboratory device for students is described. (SD)

Trends in the production of social studies instructional media are described. (DE)

Aural comprehension is analyzed and seen as active, not passive. A catalog of interference factors leads to a catalog of learning objectives. These have primacy over questions of method. Hence media must be examined with respect to attainment of learning objectives. Lab work is especially useful here. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Examples of teacher behavior in various classrooms were filmed and edited to illustrate six specific types of behaviors: approving, disapproving, probing, informing, reproductive questioning, and productive questioning. (Author)

At Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, traditional lectures have become a thing of the past since the introduction of videotapes, super 8 film, and audio cassettes in self-paced learning. (SF)

Argues the failure of calculators to show significant numbers only predicates a re-evaluation of the types and uses of electronic calculators in schools. (CP)

To eliminate expensive outside training, the Naval Material Command Support Activity created an in-house training program which was presented in three parts: contract courses, employee instructed classes, and packaged purchased audiovisual courses. (Author/HB)

A discussion of the need for closer cooperation between the media specialist and the classroom teacher who is a content specialist, especially for industrial arts instruction. (HB)

Cable television (the CATV system) can link homes and schools into a communications network, giving its users access to local, as well as national, educational information. This article outlines a five-step plan to set up CATV, telling how to originate broadcasts and implement two-way transmission. (DS)

Describes ways that students can construct molecular models from fishing-tackle materials. (MLH)

Describes a set of audio-tutorial modules, consisting of slides and a synchronized audio tape cassette, designed to teach the principles of electric circuit analysis. (MLH)