Recognizes that art students can take advantage of the new mediums technology offers them. Describes how one student utilized Adobe Photoshop in creating her artwork, while other students used a photocopier as a tool. Maintains that teachers and students should realize that computers and other media are nothing more than tools. (CMK)

This book offers information and step-by-step instructions on establishing a publishing center in schools, churches, or community groups and includes reproducible forms. The book gives ideas for such a center, a joint effort between volunteers, students, and teachers, that lets children publish their stories in a professional looking manner. The…

Designed as part of a 150-hour high school graphic arts course, this lesson plan was developed to provide students with a brief introduction to typography. The objectives of the 50-minute lesson are to enable students to: (1) identify the parts of a type character from an illustration; (2) understand the meaning of…

Recognizing that jobs are changing quickly during this second revolution of bookmaking and printing and that students must become aware of the new information technologies before they graduate, this brief report written in German presents examples of how to develop research and education in the study of books and printing using the most up-to-date…

Intended to be used by secretarial science students in a single skills laboratory, this operations manual for a mimeograph stencil printer (A B Dick Model 555) contains step-by-step instructions and simple diagrams designed to be easily understood by the students. (Two other learning modules designed for student use in a single skills laboratory…

An introduction to the Quinmester Visual Arts Education Curriculum, of which this is one course of study, can be found in SO 007 721. Serigraphy, the process of silk screening, involves a variety of techniques for the student to use as a medium of expression. Use of stencil, tusche, film, and the construction of equipment are included in this…

This revised edition of "From Primer to Pleasure" examines the history of children's books in England and elsewhere from the invention of printing to 1914. Sections and chapters are divided according to sources (printing, romance and traditional literature, and developments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), foundations (reason versus…

The Libraries (Deposit of Books) Act 1962 requires printers in Tanzania mainland to deposit one copy of all books printed by them with the librarian of the University of Dar es Salaam and in 1963 the Minister for Education issued the Libraries (Deposit of Books) Order which extended the Act by requiring printers to deposit a further copy with the…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

This book discusses mass media, multimedia, and individual media and suggests various media activities for children. The introductory essay considers why the medium is not the message; chapter one presents a model for multimedia learning; and chapter two considers the pedagogical questions of media production. Subsequent chapters deal with stage…

Describes methods for producing collections of student writing, including such aspects as anthology book covers, layout, artwork, lettering, print runs, headlines and editorial philosophy. Also provides tips for successful collecting, and alternatives to an actual anthology, such as broadsides, poetry postcards, tiny books, videotaped readings,…

Despite the recent increased importance of other fund-raising devices, direct mail still remains an effective basic component of annual fund campaigns. Direct mail product, planning and designing direct mail, writing model letters, handling mail, direct mail effectiveness, and new annual fund are described. (Author/MLW)

Presents insights of what does and doesn't work in school library local area network (LAN) printing in terms of five "myths": (1) "You need a network to share a printer;" (2) "Printing is much faster on a network;" (3) "All printers are created equal;" (4) "If one is good, two are better;" (5) "I'll never learn." (AEF)

States that sequencing and printing software eliminates the barriers to students composing music. Describes "Master Tracks Pro," a sequencing program, and "Rhapsody," a printing program. Includes a lesson plan for setting pentatonic music to a poem. (CMK)