The Educational Media Council, a consortium of 15 national non-profit professional organizations, undertook a three-year self-study to evaluate and revise the Council as a forum, a dissemination agency, and as a consultant service to the Office of Education and to education in general. The Council's membership criteria were reviewed and revised,…

There is an urgent need to fully realize (in the sense of comprehend) the extent to which technology and education are related in the modern world. This relatedness exists at a very deep conceptual level and its practical everyday social and educational implications have hardly begun to be realized (in the sense of being made real). Technology is…

THE MATERIALS IN THIS REPORT WERE COMPILED FOR USE AS INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS IN A TWO-SEMESTER COURSE IN ELEMENTARY HINDI, THE PRIMARY LANGUAGE OF INDIA. THE COMPILATION IS PRESENTED IN PRELIMINARY FORM AS ITS PRACTICAL USEFULNESS IN A CLASSROOM SITUATION WAS UNKNOWN AT THE TIME OF REPORTING. MATERIALS INCLUDE (1) CONVERSATIONAL UNITS ADAPTED FROM…

THE EFFECTIVE USE OF FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING, INSTRUCTIONAL AIDS, AND MODERN TECHNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES IN SMALL SCHOOL SYSTEMS IS IMPERATIVE IF THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT NEEDS ARE TO BE MET. FLEXIBLE SCHEDULING AND THE USE OF CORRESPONDENCE COURSES MAXIMIZE OPPORTUNITIES IN A LIMITED CURRICULUM. THE USE OF AN AMPLIFIED TELEPHONE IN A CLASSROOM IS…

This paper deals with media centers and how their development has opened up another area of professional employment to broadcasting students. Positions open to them are producer-director, television production manager, small television systems coordinator, and audio-producer-director of a center. (AP)

Two positions representing marked philosophic differences related to instructional media are described. (Author)

Discusses six concerns related to media selection: 1) broader provision and use of available selection tools; 2) improved bibliographic control of nonprint media; 3) widespread development of educational media selection centers; 4) improved preparation of librarians in media selection; 5) active participation by teachers in collection building;…

A study of how radio broadcasters and the schools in Great Britain have both complementary and conflicting roles. (HB)

A discussion of the use of media to study behavior, the application that is used by microteaching. (HB)

A look at how Haney Vocational Technical Center in Panama City, Florida, uses various media in its instructional program. (HB)

A description of a career information project at the University of Nebraska which developed media materials depicting 125 occupations. (HB)

A proposal for curriculum reform: creating a learning environment using multimedia support systems. (Author)

Includes descriptions and sources for many types of apparatus and equipment for use in chemistry. (RH)

Several types of equipment are described and sources of materials given. Included are a teaching calculator, a training oscilloscope, a bench-top testing machine, an electrical machinery laboratory and a microcomputer. (RH)

Described are a number of publications and items for use in chemistry. Included are brief descriptions of actuators, thermometer strips, current balances, and a variety of catalogues and other publications. (RH)