The article describes the background to the production of an aid to help supervisors instruct their staff on how to develop safety conscious attitudes toward the working environment. (Author)

The article introduces a series of 28 presentations from the 1974 Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska). (LS)

In a presentation at a symposium on educational media for teaching the deaf (1974), the author discusses the instructional media program at the Oregon State School for the Deaf. (LS)

This paper presents selected findings from 3.5 years of a research project funded by the Overseas Development Administration of the United Kingdom and entitled "Training Third World Educational Administrators--Methods and Materials." The report looks first at recent interest among Third World countries in the training of educational…

This updated version of a directory first published in 1980 lists 60 agencies from 15 European countries which are able and willing to provide information about the availability of educational audiovisual material. It indicates the type of material about which they can provide information by subject area, media, audience, and language. Agency…

Intended to serve as a guide rather than as a comprehensive listing, this advisory list includes reference books appropriate for school media collections for grades K-6. Entries included on the list were selected from those materials submitted by publishers which received favorable reviews by educators. Single volumes and sets of books are listed…

How to produce interesting media for language instruction. (HB)

Describes and discusses the procedure for a demonstration, found in the CHEMStudy film "Shapes and Polarities of Molecules" and in the Nuffield Advanced Chemistry and Physical Science materials, to qualitatively illustrate the differences between polar and non-polar liquids. (PEB)

One method of computing the optimum size of lettering for slides and TV title cards. (Author)

This article discusses the ways in which the mass media of communication, particularly radio and television, now function or could function as complements or as alternatives to formal schooling. (HMD)

A presentation of techniques for the use of audiovisual aids in large group instruction. (HB)

A discussion of some of the possible cultural effects of American satellites over Africa. (HB)

A discussion of educational concepts, media use and standards, children's reading, and criteria for reviewing science books. A brief description of a useful review publication, "Appraisal: Children's Science Books," is included. (LS)

In this paper the present state of the art in authoring systems in surveyed and the other papers in this special issue are introduced. (Author)