The first part of a two-part interview in which David Halberstam discusses television as a political force, as an entertainment vehicle, and as a tool for teaching. (RL)

An interview with Hap Palmer, one of the biggest-selling educational recording artists in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Mexico, and Australia. (Author/DB)

Guidelines for the selection of appropriate educational media are presented, including a discussion of the role of technology in enhancing learning, and a consideration of the characteristics of various forms of learning resources. (SK)

Provides insights into the activities of the state school media supervisor and the personal qualities demanded by the position. (Author)

Describes instances of automation in school media service programs and presents an annotated bibliography of professional literature related to the automation of school library services. (Author/CMV)

Included are 73 reports of research on the impact of instructional media on attitude formation and change. General observations about the findings, including procedures most and least likely to produce the desired attitudinal outcomes, are also detailed. (Author/JEG)

Techniques for providing interaction of the student with media. Includes development process and specific suggestions. (LS)

A study to examine on-the-job behaviors and attitudes of teachers compares years of experience, teaching area, and use of instructional media in the classroom, in assignments, and in student evaluations. (Author/LS)

Reports on the current status (purpose, membership, activities, publications, conferences, officers) of six professional organizations: AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology); AMTEC (Association for Media and Technology in Canada); ISPI (International Society for Performance Improvement); ISTE (International Society for…

Reviews three basic Internet functions, i.e. communications such as e-mail, remote logon, and file transfer, and highlights useful Internet resources for media technologists in each. Several useful tools to aid in using the Internet are discussed, including gopher, World Wide Web, Veronica, and WAIS (Wide Area Information Server). (LRW)

Includes annotated entries for associations and organizations headquartered in the United States and Canada whose interests are in some manner significant to the fields of instructional technology and educational media. The U.S. section begins with a classified list designed to facilitate location of organizations by their specialized interests or…

It is not an easy task to describe how an organization affects educational processes or events. First, the organization is a blend of multiple countries and changes dynamically; second, a segment of educational processes like the reforms of educational media are changing permanently as well. The changes are induced by institutional, legal,…

The multigenre paper is a collection of very different pieces of writing that are combined into one unified work in which students interpret researched information and illustrate that knowledge in different forms of writing. The students state which genre would best illustrate the information learned from each source, those genres, along with a…

Books, cartoons, movies, and video games provide engaging opportunities to get both science and nonscience students excited about physics. An easy way to use these media in one's classroom is to have students view clips and identify unusual events, odd physics, or list things that violate our understanding of the physics that governs our universe.…

Distance education (DE) practices around the world use a wide range of audio-visual technologies to overcome the lack of direct contact between teachers and students. These are not universally adopted by DE teachers, however, nor even encouraged by their institutions. This article discusses the organisational attitudes that can lead to outdated…