AN EXTENSION OF MODELING BEHAVIOR INTO COGNITIVE AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT WAS ATTEMPTED THROUGH THE USE OF FILM-MEDIATED MODELS FOR THE ACTIVATION AND GENERALIZATION PHASES OF THE CONSERVATION PROBLEM. FOUR HYPOTHESES WERE SET UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO QUESTION SUCH PREVIOUS EXPLANATIONS OF THE CONSERVATION RESPONSE AS THOSE OF PIAGET AND BRUNER. THE…

Media education, evolved from film study, screen education, and visual literacy, is concerned with expanding learners' capability in nonprint communication, especially in the areas of film, still photography and television. Its objectives are to assist learners to interpret and utilize the mass media they encounter, and to foster individual…

Presented is the media resource listing of 22 slide tapes, 13 video tapes, and 14 films available for rental or purchase from the Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute in Nebraska. Provided for each listing is title, purchase price, intended audience, time, date, and an annotation. Most media materials are intended for students, professionals,…

This manual presents information in seven sections: (1) parts of a 16mm film projector--film transport, threading, control, film projection, and sound system, and film projection correction devices, (2) threading procedures, (3) projection screens, (4) typical operating problems, (5) minor maintenance and repair techniques, (6) hints for the film…

Specific learning activities to increase the visual literacy of elementary students by involving them in the production of their own materials are described. (DE)

Media and anthropology have been inalienably linked since the beginning of anthropology. Anthropologists have experimented with a variety of media to communicate anthropology to new audiences. (Author)

Editor, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Drawer NJ, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Subscription Rates: $4.00, individuals; $6.00, libraries and institutions.

Presents a list of 16 mm science films accumulated over 1976 from distributor's brochures. All titles, length of each film, cost, distributor's source code, a brief description of the film's content and current address of distributors are also included. (HM)

Provides an apparatus for the analysis and evaluation of television by categorizing the existential media factors such as light, two- and three-dimensional screen space, time-motion, and sound. The correlation of one factor, time, with experiental phenomena such as instantaneousness and irrevocability of the moment and the complexity of the…

Describes the process involved when intermediate students produced an original film during the last three weeks of the school year. (MAI)

The efforts of the Consortium of University Film Centers to develop consumer standards for film buyers are discussed. (MBR)

An industrial arts teacher tells how he set up a film unit using animation instead of live filming. The article includes storyboard and exposure sheet forms and photographs of students at work. (MF)

After viewing a film, a sample of 10 and 11 year old children completed questionnaires which gave information on their grasp of the film's content, on matching variables, and on design factors. In this way it was possible to examine patterns in the grasp of content and relate them to other variables. (Author)

This quarterly bibliography includes books, articles, bibliographies and reviews published here or abroad by scholars residing in the United States or Canada. Coverage includes comparative literature studies; translations; publications on art, music, philosophy, history, cinema, and sociology; and studies pertinent to the Italian-American…