College news service men need to change their methods of approach to become more effective in their jobs. (HS)

Discusses the use of slide sets in teaching adults. Provides principles for planning, production, and use. (JOW)

Discusses oral history interviews in terms of selection criteria, identification, storage conditions, and duplication. (CHC)

Gives suggestions to media professionals for effectively providing for bilingual students, including a bilingual listening station, interest center, bulletin board display, and human resource file. Sources for the acquisition of foreign language materials are listed. (CMV)

Presents a report form that allows for the systematic evaluation of instructional materials, highlighting learning objectives/strategies, grade level, technical quality, storage and identification for classroom teachers. (RAO)

Gives criteria to be considered prior to the purchase of instructional media, and lists software taxonomies, defined by mode, degree of abstraction, and by ease and cost of production. Appropriate uses of media and media selection aids are discussed. (RAO)

Guidelines for selecting electronic audio/video toys and games for children with handicaps are discussed, and information on 13 games (such as "Simon" and "Merlin") is provided. (CL)

The author offers guidelines for ascertaining which instructional materials will best meet the needs of handicapped students. Commercially produced and teacher developed materials particularly useful for integrating handicapped students into regular classes are listed. Information on each material includes title, publisher, and a brief…

Summarizes some of the main bibliographic tools, retrieval systems, and other sources available for selecting appropriate materials for school-age handicapped children. (Author/CMV)

Presents a decision model for selecting media based on cost and benefit factors. Cost variables that should be considered, how to calculate those costs, the benefits that should be considered, how to assess the benefits, and the limitations of their model are all discussed. (Author/JEG)

Questions why managers choose one communication medium in preference to another. Proposes a role for social factors in media selection. Finds, employing a large field-collected sample, strong support for Information Richness Theory, a rational-choice model connecting managers' media choice to task characteristics like variety and analyzability.…

Tests hypothesized relationships between the media richness model and the symbolic interactionist perspective with data from 94 managers. Finds that managers tend to select the face-to-face medium for highly equivocal communications and written media for clear, objective communications. (MG)

Recommends a five-step process for selecting the appropriate program for training administration. Includes selection criteria, a list of programs, and resources and suppliers. (JOW)

Discusses the debate on reading and the relationship between children's reading and television viewing habits. Describes a multimedia class project that produced an animated film which included dialogue, sound effects, and music. Posits that children are empowered through "reading" in a wider selection of media. (PA)

Discusses current debates in the field of electronic archiving. Considers the decisions archivists face concerning which content, media, and political or ideological biases will combine to constitute a historical record, and discusses the control of archival content. (LRW)