This humorous blueprint, for apprentice and master teachers alike, discusses the essential implements of the craft: the chalk, the chalk eraser, the marking pencil, the wastepaper basket, and more. (JN)

Discusses the selection and purchase of tricycles for day care centers. Topics include: 1) comparison and ordering information for 10 different brands of tricycles; 2) 10 tips for choosing safe tricycles; 3) comments from the field concerning tricycles. (RJC)

Proper classroom computing environmental design will ensure maximum student comfort and efficiency. If teachers approach the automated classroom with a plan for integrating people, equipment, procedures, and environment, many physical and psychosocial problems of the students can be solved successfully. (Author)

Discusses purposes and effectiveness of indoor climbing structures and offers general safety guidelines. Provides a guide to products from 14 companies. The guide describes the equipment, age and weight range, guarantees, price range, and shipping. Addresses, telephone, and FAX numbers of each company are listed. (SH)

Describes the vicissitudes experienced by a small rural high school agriculture program in northern Illinois in setting up an aquaculture system. (SK)

Presents five steps schools can take during the planning process to ensure good implementation of instructional technology. Planning steps include teaching software, technological infrastructure, and technology updating. (GR)

At a time when colleges and universities are struggling to plan the mobile campus of the future, many of those with laptop programs have found refresh programs to be their key to success. Planned well, these efforts establish a strategy to rotate the latest laptop products into the campus technology portfolio, ensuring that schools stay…

In recent years, interactive white boards (IWBs) have been introduced into many primary classrooms in England. This enquiry examines the ways in which they are being used in the context of literacy teaching, in six primary classrooms in the south-west. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers and pupils, this report reflects on the impact of IWB…

Describes a tactile technique that draws letters on the skin as an approach to teaching children to begin reading and writing. Describes the development and use of a letter machine with normal beginning readers and dyslexic children. (GS)

This booklet presents several ideas for using old tires as equipment in both indoor and outdoor learning settings for young children. (JMB)

VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONAL PROJECTION EQUIPMENT WAS PICTURED AND BRIEFLY ANNOTATED IN THIS DOCUMENT. PROTOTYPES OF NEW EQUIPMENT WERE ALSO INCLUDED. OTHER VOLUMES IN THIS SERIES ARE ED 003 738 THROUGH ED 003 746. (TC)

THE STUDY PRESENTED IN THIS REPORT WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. INCLUDED IN THE STUDY ARE TWO PAPERS CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEM OF DESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL EQUIPMENT. THE TWO AUTHORS (FROM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING FIRMS) WERE ASKED INDEPENDENTLY TO WRITE UPON THESE QUESTIONS--(1)…

The 1975 buyer's guide has been designed to be the most complete, up-to-date reference aid available. The range of goods and services used by trainers is divided into the broad categories of: software and services--format, software, and services; training area (audio, furniture, instructional equipment, program controllers, projectors and…