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McGrew, Mary Lou – 1979
This report describes a 1979 survey of 389 Iowa school districts which was conducted to determine the state of instructional materials selection policies in each district. Respondents, usually high school library media specialists, furnished data in three areas: (1) the current state of their district media selection policies, (2) selection policy…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Educational Media, Instructional Materials, Learning Resources Centers
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Educational Media. – 1980
Books classified as "easy" (E) in the school media collection and a brief listing of filmstrips for the elementary school level are presented with critical annotations. Entries were selected from those materials submitted by publishers which received favorable reviews by educators. Books are listed by author, and each entry includes…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Books, Childrens Literature, Educational Media
Holmes County School District, Lexington, MA. – 1979
This training manual documents planning and procedures employed in the development of a coordinated, comprehensive, year-long inservice library training program designed to stimulate and motivate the habit of library usage by students and teachers in the rural poverty area of Holmes County, Mississippi. Participants in the program included…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged, Guides, Instructional Materials
JOYCE, BRUCE R. – 1967
AN ORGANIZATIONAL MODEL FOR THE SCHOOL IS PROPOSED, PLACING TEACHERS AT THE CENTER OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND PROVIDING THEM WITH A SUPPORTIVE STAFF TO HELP INDIVIDUALIZE EDUCATION. IN THIS MODEL, A DIRECT INSTRUCTION TEAM WORKS WITH A PROFESSIONAL STAFF, WHO ORGANIZE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND PROVIDE CONSULTANT HELP, AT THE…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Creative Teaching, Educational Media, Individualized Programs
LEE, C. LORAN – 1966
THE FIRST STEP IN USING THE MULTIMEDIA APPROACH IS WRITING OBJECTIVES IN BEHAVIORAL TERMS. THE SECOND STEP INVOLVES THE DETERMINATION OF WHICH MEDIA OR "TOOLS" WILL BEST MEET THE NEEDS OF THE STUDENTS IN ACCOMPLISHING THE SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES. ADMINISTRATORS AT MOUNT SAN JACINTO FELT THAT THE ROLE OF THE LIBRARY IN THIS APPROACH IS TO…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Instructional Materials, Learning Resources Centers, Libraries
Weiss, Jack A. – 1980
One of 15 members of the Northern Illinois Learning Resources Cooperative (NILRC), Elgin Community College served as host institution for a project to design, develop, test, and install computer programs in a community college resource center environment. The service functions identified for systems development included circulation, serial…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Programs, Learning Resources Centers, Library Automation
PDF pending restorationKleinbaum, David G. – 1978
This report identifies special characteristics of AV materials and special considerations for their use, provides a brief overview of general recommendations for the incorporation of statistical AV materials into the resource system, diagnostic system, and summer sessions at the University of New Hampshire, and gives detailed procedures for…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Check Lists, Educational Media, Evaluation Criteria
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. Div. of Library Services. – 1979
This statewide report documents the number and kind of media program staff members and the type of media program facilities for elementary and secondary schools in Wisconsin through 1978. Status report 1 presents percentages of public school buildings with centralized media center facilities, percentages of students in schools with media centers,…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Audiovisual Centers, Elementary Secondary Education, Facility Inventory
FRANCK, DOROTHEA SEELYE
THE NEED FOR AN ADULT BASIC EDUCATION CENTER IS ILLUSTRATED BY STATISTICS ON ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES FROM THE 1960 CENSUS. ELEVEN PERCENT OF ADULTS WERE FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE AND NEARLY 2.3 MILLION HAD NEVER BEEN ENROLLED IN A SCHOOL. CONCERN TO ERADICATE ILLITERACY IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD IS SHOWN IN UNESCO'S RESOLUTION AND…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Functional Literacy
Banks, Thomas L. – Educational/Instructional Broadcasting, 1968
In 1966 the University of California Medical Center at San Francisco (including Schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy) established a broadly based communications media center designed to serve the variety of teaching, research, and continuing education requirements of the faculty. This article dwells on the variety of applications…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Closed Circuit Television, Communications, Educational Facilities
Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education, Springfield. – 1977
The East Central Curriculum Management Center (ECCMC) was evaluated by the Illinois State Advisory Council on Adult, Vocational and Technical Education. The council reviewed the internal operations of the center, including (1) an assessment of how various units within the Illinois Office of Education (IOE) related to the Center; (2) a survey of…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Financial Support, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization
Lance, Wayne D. – 1977
The report summarizes major program accomplishments of the Northwest Area Learning Resource Center (NALRC) in providing media, materials, and educational technology support services to handicapped children and their teachers in its 10 states and territories. Program development accomplishments in Area One included assisting states in local and…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Educational Media, Educational Resources, Educational Technology
National Center on Educational Media and Materials for the Handicapped, Columbus, OH. – 1975
Presented is an elaboration of the workscope of the ALRC (Area Learning Resource Center) network which provides instructional media, materials, and technology services to special education programs. Focused on are the following three of six workscope areas: state program development; media, materials, and educational technology training; and…
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Media, Educational Technology, Exceptional Child Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1975
Presented is the text of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (Public Law 94-142) designed to amend the Education of the Handicapped Act. Among provisions of the Act are a strict due process guarantee, incentives to local school districts and states to provide preschool services, and significant new funding formulae for funding…
Descriptors: Architectural Barriers, Due Process, Employment, Exceptional Child Education
Fox, Carol
A learning center is one area of a classroom that contains a collection of programmed activities and materials which can be used either to teach, reinforce, or enrich a skill or concept, or to provide information. Learning centers are a tool to individualization and can be of types: (1) a skill learning center or (2) an information learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Individualized Instruction, Individualized Programs, Information Centers
