A review of a multimedia program for children aged 3 to 8 years, which is designed to introduce new concepts and stimulate cognitive development. (Author)

An extensive multi-media program designed and developed by teachers and inmates at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary has proven highly successful in providing students hands-on vocational education experiences necessary to equip them with job-entry skills. (EA)

American popular music -- ballads, folksongs, and mass media songs -- can be used in an American studies class to trace social history. This takes advantage of young people's loyalty to music and enlists their aural sensitivities in learning about the United States. (JH)

How a basic media utilization course at the University of Utah has been developed on a completely self-instructional basis. (Author)

Offers specific examples of instructional goals and their corresponding teaching techniques used in "The Electric Company" that do not substantiate the definition of reading as communication between author and reader, the effective reader being one who brings meaning to the printed word. (TO)

The article discusses outdoor drawing, giving a brief history and its applications in today's classrooms. The use of grids to help students gain an eye for proportions and spatial relationships is emphasized. (KM)

The design of the CAI interface described is based on the microprocessor in order to meet three basic requirements for providing appropriate instruction to the developmentally handicapped: (1) portability, so that CAI can be taken into the customary learning environment; (2) reliability; and (3) flexibility, to permit use of new input and output…

For many students the present remedial mathematics curriculum is a collection of loosely related, very difficult to understand topics, and many, in consequence, lack the motivation to persist in remedial math courses. Most alternative instructional methods used in these courses fail to convey a sense of the underlying purpose of mathematics and…

This study deals with three critical decision areas in individualizing instruction: (1) the decision whether or not to use commercially available materials; (2) the programmatic impact assigned to cognitive and affective consequences; and (3) the extent of formal structuring. Using a six-year research and development cycle for the development of…

This annotated bibliography, fifth in a series of five documents on sex education, identifies over 200 selected curricular materials for teaching sex education in both elementary and secondary schools. Most materials were published during the late 1960s through 1970s. The materials, which include both print and nonprint media, cover aspects of…

Today, with the influx of media production courses across the country, students can intimately experience the differences between acting for the stage and acting for the screen and learn to shape their performances for a two-dimensional image. Such a course in video and film acting was introduced at the University of Arkansas. Students enrolled…

An experiment to measure learning when stimuli are presented through one or two channels showed that an auditory signal combined with a relevant picture--the two-channel cue summation condition--was superior to five other methods of communication, or "treatments." These other five were: one-channel visual only; one-channel auditory only;…

This bibliography is designed to be a working reference for teacher educators and administrators concerned with new media utilization in the improvement of teacher training programs. Books, periodicals, and dissertations are listed under these headings Projected Media, Recorded Materials, Television, Programed Instruction, Multimedia Systems,…