Encourages using media production to help students gain greater maturity in both their spoken and written skills. (AEA)

Offers a selective list of examples of types of media that are now available for use in religious education for adults. Materials for the following program areas are discussed: planning, parish renewal, human and spiritual development, prayer and worship, Bible study and prayer, and justice education. (Author/LLS)

This discussion of positive and negative aspects of media in religious education is based on Church documents, including and following the Documents of Vatican II, and on the author's own experiences as an elementary school teacher. Eleven references are listed. (Author/LLS)

Outlines the principles of instructional development as they are related to particular situations faced by librarians who teach library skills. Fifty-six references are cited. (FM)

Presented a model constructed to enable a designer to logically and systematically develop and produce instructional materials which reflect the constituency's needs, interests, and environments. Four references are listed. (FM)

Presents a model for instructional media design, adapted from the theoretical model and viewed to work well with reasonable effort and time. An example of the model in use is provided to give evidence of reasonableness. Outlines of both the theoretical and adapted models are provided. (MP)

Replaces item 3, Treatment of Content, in "Attributes of Quality in Audiovisual Materials for Health Professionals" by Emanuel Suter and Wendy H. Waddell ("The Journal of Biocommunication," v8 n2, July 1981). (FM)

Examines the effectiveness of instructional support provided in three treatments for sixth grade children interpreting metaphor in poetry. (HOD)

Describes how the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, second edition (AACR2) can be used by school libraries for both print and non-print materials. An overview of AACR2 is given, as well as information on networking and suggestions for adopting the code. An annotated list of 12 suggested readings is included. (BK)

Traces music's role in the development of motion pictures and discusses ways for instructional designers to increase the effectiveness of productions through using music. Studies showing that tempo, modality, rhythm, and harmony interact with audience characteristics to determine affective responses to media are reviewed. Extensive references are…

An overview of a symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf, "Educational Technology for the 80s" is presented. Among developments reviewed are the video cassette, the video disc, and a "closed captioning" system for television sets in which only those sets with a special adaptor will produce captions. (PHR)

Describes the development of educational technology in Brazil and analyzes examples of successful and unsuccessful projects, particularly in the field of tele-education. (Author/CHC)

Details several agricultural and health development programs initiated during the past decade in the Cauca Valley in Colombia. Introduced through nonformal educational strategies making use of media, these programs have had mixed results. (LLS)

Describes details of the construction of a simple compact schlieren experimental setup as an instructional aid. This new optical method is easy to apply, noninterfering, nondestructive, free from inertia, and can produce instantaneous records of transient phenomena, and is comparatively inexpensive. (Author/SK)

Provides a listing of audiovisual resources based on existing science fiction and fantasy works. Includes summaries and an index to titles and authors. (FL)