In order to learn more about the potential of television for teaching prosocial values, an experiment is described which will use as subjects preschool children attending nursery schools or day care centers. Brief videotapes, 15-20 minutes long, will be made from material taken primarily from Sesame Street. They will vary in the explicitness of…

To help educational television (ETV) practitioners achieve maximum clarity, economy and purposiveness, the range of techniques of television graphics is explained. Closed-circuit and broadcast ETV are compared. The design process is discussed in terms of aspect ratio, line structure, cut off, screen size, tone scales, studio apparatus, and…

In journal format, the author's reactions to a sabbatical year tour of educational television installations around the world and in the United States are recorded. Visits to Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore are described. In part 2, similar visits to school systems in California, Arizona, Illinois,…

Based on papers and recorded discussions of training experts at the UNESCO Seminar on Instructional Training Techniques for Broadcasters, communication training is examined as the planned process of inducing those attitudes and transmitting those skills necessary for the effective mass movement of ideas, the sharing of information, and the…

This conference report is the ninth in an annual series. The theme of the 1975 international conference was continuous education, the provision of education for individuals at any time in their lives when they think it beneficial. The text consists of 27 papers that address the continuous education theme, educational media related to the theme, or…

The National Education Association (NEA) in conjunction with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Library of Medicine, The Alaska Broadcasting Commission, and the Pacific PEACESAT Network, conducted four satellite experiments designed to improve professional communication among teachers. These programs were the Satellite…

To identify the distribution of benefits that accrue from introducing communications technology in developing societies, two case studies were undertaken. The first case looks at telecommunications development in Algeria where telecommunications systems are being rapidly introduced to speed up industrialization and where a satellite system is in…

With the pervasiveness of television, especially for children, visual literacy is a growing concern. Television should be regarded as part of a potential solution to the country's need for improved education. "Sesame Street" has proved that children do learn from television, that active interaction is not always necessary for learning,…

As an extensive to an earlier report on pilot shows of The Electric Company that produced high and low visual attention in 2nd and 3rd graders, this study focuses on the effect of contextual attributes on the level of appeal. By analyzing sequences of presentations of bits of information, researchers found that bits of similar appeal levels tend…

Four auditory delivery systems and their implications for instructing handicapped children are discussed. Outlined are six potential benefits of applying technologies to education, such as making education more productive. Pointed out are potential uses of sub-channel radio (such as programming for the blind), of broadband communication (such as…

Intended for use of commercial and noncommercial station managers and staff, students of radio and television and general readers, this book covers many fundamentals of broadcast regulation and serves as an introduction and reference to broadcast law. It uses hypothetical situations to illustrate how communication law applies to concrete problems;…

The new library/media center at Port Jefferson High School, Long Island, was designed to use and integrate all formats and media. In addition to meeting the traditional responsibilities of a library, the center participates in the educational process by broadcasting over 100 television programs per week. (Author/PF)

An historical record is presented of the processes by which the children's television program, Sesame Street, was created, developed, and implemented. Particular attention is focused on the concept of using a team of educational advisors, professional researchers, and television production specialists to blend the technology of television and the…

Noting drastic changes in both television and the family since the 1990 edition, this revised volume provides an extensive consideration of television's role in the American family, from the uses families make of television and how extensions such as remote controls and VCRs affect usage, to the meanings families have for television, families'…

A 15 program instructional television series on career awareness, "Bread and Butterflies" was produced by the Agency for Instructional Television in 1974-75. Designed to be an affective stimulus in the classroom, the series was analyzed to document how women were portrayed and the extent to which stereotyping occurred in the work roles…