Detailed step-by-step making of color slides. (AF)

Suggestions for effective utilization of all types of media in instruction about Latin America. (VW)

Guidelines for media-based training that works are presented: tailor your media session to its audience; tell the audience what is important and why; use mental imagery to promote memory; don't overload your audience with information; and relate new facts and ideas to things the audience already knows. (CT)

Perhaps the sixties media revolution burned out because it was too concerned with pigeonholing the various forms rather than probing them. But given some convincing theories and some solid resources, educators of the eighties can profitably rekindle that revolution. (Author)

A mathematics instructor at Muskegon Community College describes his successful use of rear-view slide projection, audio tapes, and videotapes in teaching calculus. (DC)

Educational uses of personal computers have progressed from basic early applications to professional commercial software to multimedia. The telematics industry as yet serves no educational objective and is not part of a long-term vision, and teachers lack skills in information technology. Telematics could learn from 15 years of educational…

Students learned about electric motors by asking questions and receiving answers from an on-screen pedagogical agent named Dr. Phyz who stood next to an on-screen drawing of an electric motor. Results are consistent with a cognitive theory of multimedia learning and yield principles for the design of interactive multimedia learning environments.…

Developed an integrated view of learning from verbal and pictorial representations and analyzed the effects of different kinds of multiple external representations on the structure of mental models. Results from 60 college students indicate that the structure of graphics affects the structure of the mental model. (SLD)

In 2 experiments, learners who were seated at a computer workstation received a narrated animation about lightning formation. Then, they took a retention test, a transfer test, and rated the speaker. The results are consistent with social agency theory, which posits that social cues in multimedia messages can encourage learners to interpret…

Describes applications of multimedia and telematics at Paradise Valley Community College (Arizona), the University of Delaware, and Miami-Dade Community College. Shows how these programs solve problems of cost and development time; stresses the importance of networking and interactivity. (SK)