Designed as a resource notebook for persons interested in the Media Curriculum Resource Specialist concept, the manual presents a summary of the activities of the Media Curriculum Institute held at Michigan State University (June 16-20, 1969). The section on administrative considerations provides a script for a slide presentation on an…

The communication of messages from teacher to student often includes visual representation of the material under study. The place of mass media in the classroom becomes increasingly important as materials are developed and made available. Films and filmstrips of all types can be utilized in many ways, some of which have been the subjects of…

This unannotated bibliography, indexed by author, provides consumers of instructional materials with reliable information which could aid them in determining the appropriateness of a material. It is not concerned with any other aspect of evaluation. Articles written prior to 1970 are not included. Current Index to Journals in Education, Research…

The use of microfiche as a means of programed self-instruction was examined in this study. Lessons adapted from a one-hour lecture on the slide rule were typed in large print in order to allow easy reading at distances normally used with microfiche readers. The 58 pages of the course were reproduced on microfilm, strips of which were then inserted…

This bibliography contains one hundred and fourteen listings of media references which have been annotated and outlined for the purpose of allowing easy access to existing references located in journals, texts, and other publications. Most of the listings have been expanded to include a breakdown of materials into categories such as filmstrips,…

The Responsive Model Program uses the typing or learning booth as an important part of its autotelic (self-rewarding) environment, to help children develop the mental processes involved in discovery of relationships, such as the association of sound with symbols, or discovering the rules of a game. The typing booth also helps children to develop…

The objectives of the program outlined in this report were (1) to assist local white and Negro professional organizations to work out the details of their merger and (2) to provide inservice conferences on school desegregation for personnel in various counties of northern Florida public schools. Instruction was given at the institutes and field…

The objective of this study was to identify and describe problems experienced by public school systems in increasing utilization of instructional television (ITV) subsystems. Study effort was focused on systemic resistances: interacting characteristics of the school system's organizational structures and functions, including the ITV subsystem,…

See ED 030 011 (Volume I).

This presentation is concerned with television as it relates to the planning and administration of facilities in which it is utilized. The role of television as a teaching aid, teaching medium, and teacher is discussed. Consideration is given to the following aspects concerned with implementing educational television: plant layout, amount of space…

The Tucson Early Education Program is working with "orchestrated instruction," a cooking experience which is an experimental attempt to pull together the various components of early education. Individual subskills such as arithmetic and language arts are learned for a larger project that the children are interested in, and skills are developed as…

The objective of this multimedia kit is to provide third and fourth grade children with materials with which they can interact, and which will help them to explore a selected part of their environment. By examining the fruits and seeds in the box, by experimenting with them, and by watching them grow, children will acquire skill in manipulating…

This multimedia kit introduces sixth grade children to everyday life in an ancient Greek household, and to archeology as a tool for learning about people's lives long ago. Artifacts, filmstrips, maps, photographs, reproductions, and written material is provided for 11 lessons. The teacher is to act as the director of research rather than as a…

In order to meet the need for media-support personnel with training relevant to the kinds of tasks needed to be performed, the Jobs in Instruction Media Study (JIMS) analyzed jobs and set up guidelines for job structures and training curricula for work performed in the field. In order to gather information about what media personnel do on the job,…

The directory of teacher training materials being developed by the Center for Innovation in Teaching the Handicapped contains 24 summaries of current projects. Provided for each project are topic, project director, author, target population, general objective, rationale, format, package contents, a general description, approximate time…