This article describes an approach to developing student reading materials that support middle school learners in a project-based, inquiry curriculum for grades 6 through 8. Reading materials are designed to encourage sense making beyond the classroom, as students read and write about science as it takes place in a classroom and as it occurs in…

This article features several educators whose classroom, school, and district-wide projects offered this year's most inventive and successful examples of bringing technology-based learning to K-12 students. A middle school teacher used grant money to fund a weekly student news broadcast. A technology director created video booths to reveal to…

This paper reports a corpus-based lexical study of the most frequently used medical academic vocabulary in medical research articles (RAs). A Medical Academic Word List (MAWL), a word list of the most frequently used medical academic words in medical RAs, was compiled from a corpus containing 1 093 011 running words of medical RAs from online…

In many cases advanced instructional products, such as computer-based training, e-learning programs, simulations, and simulators are not designed by experienced instructional designers, but by novices: subject matter experts, teachers, instructors, or inexperienced designers. The literature indicates that these novices do not always have the…

Gives information for producing 35mm slides and for constructing a copy stand for the production of close-up photographs. (GS)

A reference guide which was designed to assist course developers in the selection, development and testing of instructional "software" materials. (Author)

A discussion on the emphasis of quantity of instructional materials and the lack of development standards. (HB)

A profile of what instructional developers do, their education, reading habits, age, and philosophical stance is drawn from responses to a questionnaire sent to members of the Division of Instructional Development of AECT. (Author)

Article offers a critical look at the current research base supporting the use of research models. (Author)

How a teacher and students wrote their own textbook. (HB)

A discussion of how educators have neglected to consider the creative aspects of producing instructional media. (HB)

A reference guide which was designed to assist course developers in the selection, development and testing of instructional "software" materials. (Author)

A brief introduction outlines a general print product planning, production, and distribution process which is followed by explanations of 26 print process concepts with references to the ideas of experts in the field. The alphabetically-arranged concepts include audience, brochures, content, disclaimers, editing, format, grammar, halftones, inks,…

Focusing on the production and utilization of printing processes in constructing effective visuals for teaching, this bulletin contains articles on the silk screening stencil process, use of a similar process with a portable mimeograph, and the hectograph process. The first article lists equipment needed to make a silk screen, steps in building…