A discussion of using pictures to teach media equipment operation in preservice teacher education at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. (HB)

A REPORT OF A CONFERENCE HELD TO ANALYZE LEARNING THEORY AS IT RELATES TO NEW MEDIA AND THE LEARNER IS PRESENTED. THE INVITATIONAL CONFERENCE WAS ATTENDED BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS, UNIVERSITIES, STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES, AND INDUSTRY. THE KNOWLEDGE EXPLOSION COUPLED WITH THE CURRENT REVOLUTION IN…

A description of the survey instrument developed by the Iowa City Community School District, which was used to measure teacher priorities in relation to a media production and utilization inservice program. (Author/HB)

A report from the 19th Lake Okoboji Educational Media Leadership Conference held in August, 1973, at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Lake Okoboji, Iowa. (HB)

Author explains why, at the Des Moines Area Community College, the production of learning packages for developmental and supplemental instruction is considered a vital component of media services. (Author)

A description of the learner-centered alternative to traditional teaching methods utilized by the welding program at Kirkwood Community College. (Author/HB)

The Iowa School for the Blind offers both academic and vocational programs featuring instructional media in a 13 year period. (MC)

Discusses a 3-part package, offered to schools, composed of a semester-long student course, curriculum materials, and an adaptor'' program. Aimed at high school juniors and seniors, the student course covers all the major topics in film and radio-TV studies: use of hardware, production and presentation techniques, history and aesthetics, and…

The Iowa State Department of Public Instruction has developed an instructional materials selection policy and procedures to help achieve appropriate assignment of selection responsibility and quality selection while guarding against unwarranted censorship of materials. The model emphasized the ongoing nature of media selection, involving…

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…

A survey conducted in December 1971 for the Educational Media staff of the University of Iowa collected data on use of educational media from principals, audiovisual directors, librarians and teachers in 80 elementary and secondary schools. Administrators and teachers were asked about training in media needed on the job. Both groups indicated more…

Iowa's 16 regional educational media centers are described. Following a brief overview of the history of the centers and of their current functions as service organizations which work with county and local agencies to improve instruction in the state's schools, two page discussions of each of the individual centers are presented. Specific details…

Media services at the Des Moines Independent Community School District (Iowa) is a centrally-based department which provides a number of districtwide services in adhering to a philosophy of supporting the curriculum by providing current and sufficient materials, both print and nonprint, access to information for all students, and research skills…