Summarized are the proceedings of the Special Study Institute, attended by directors of special education and of educational communications, and by teachers of emotionally handicapped children. Several projects in the fields of special education media were presented and reviewed, illustrating innovative approaches to teaching emotionally…

Through joint efforts that included Federal funds, school staff, and community members, Leflore County schools in rural Mississippi have made advances in education. The uses of instructional materials and media are described in this 1969 document, along with areas where deficiencies are found. One section cites specific findings with respect to…

This paper asserts the "unquestionable" relevance of linguistic insights in the training of and subsequent use by teachers of English as a foreign language. Although the author agrees with Chomsky's view that linguistics has nothing to offer the teacher in the form of specific proposals for language teaching methodology, he argues that linguistics…

The purpose of this publication is to intoduce readers to the media program concept and to offer practical assistance to those interested in establishing or expanding media programs; typical services of media specialists are enumerated; a sampling is given of requests from teachers; and guidelines are suggested for implementing a media program.…

The Institute was held for school librarians who had experience in organizing and administering the printed media programs, but needed training in selection, organization and use of non-book materials, under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. The criteria for selection of particpants required eight semester hours of library science, one…

This index contains information on 456 computer-assisted instruction (CAI) programs and projects developed by 51 organizations. The information was obtained from correspondence, annual reports, technical reports, and questionnaires which were sent to the producers of the program. The material is organized to list: the name of each program or…

A preliminary draft of a "Teacher Training Aid to Help Teachers Understand the Processes of Science" has been prepared on the basis of a careful analysis of the current practice of science. This manuscript attempts to formulate guidelines for an explanation of communicative processes of scientific inquiry to students without rigorous background…

To ascertain the degree to which educational media was being utilized in vocational-technical training, a study was conducted involving a review of related literature and a reporting of four instructional approaches. Examination of literature yielded some generalizable findings: (1) Teaching of manipulation activity fy film, television, and…

In 1967, the ITV Humanities project, under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, sponsored a search for instructional television series proposals which were to show an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of humanities at the high school level. Five proposals were selected to be developed into pilot productions.…

This report contains 73 addresses and papers presented at a convocation on the place of educational research in the larger social setting, and, more specifically, on the role that the educational researcher can and will play. Major presentations focus on the topics of educational research and the accumulation of knowledge, curriculum modifications…

Today's language arts teacher must adapt himself to the individually-paced classroom environment of the future by utilizing the newest procedures in his field within the current structures of the heterogeneous, homogeneous, or "core"-type classroom. The teacher of a heterogeneous group must insure individual student progress by differentiating the…

The second of three volumes of appendixes to the final technical report of the Great Lakes Region Special Education Instructional Materials Center contains materials related to the introductory chapter of field services and workshops (Appendix B) and the chapter on media and materials development (Appendix C). Appendix B is continued from Volume 1…

A Media Learning Resources Committee was appointed by the Chancellor to study the use of media at UCLA and to make recommendations concerning its role in the university. Section 1 of the committee report presents the conclusions derived from the policy/program recommendations and operational suggestions of section 2. These are supported by…

California Librarian, the official periodical of the California Library Association, includes in its April 1974 issue: an article on high school media programs and problems, a study of graduate students' attitudes toward librarians and media specialists, a discussion of the use of supply-demand equalization in evaluating collection adequacy, a…

The Vigo County (Indiana) Public Library received a two-year grant, under the Library Services and Construction Act, to improve services to the disadvantaged in urban and rural areas. A program was developed to use a converted bookmobile to deliver films, records, video tape, viewmasters, tape recorders, and other "new" media to the OEO…