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…

Notes that media studies teachers have few opportunities to network with knowledgeable professionals in media education. Discusses a new organization, the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), that offers resources ideal for both new and seasoned media studies teachers. Explains that AMLA hosted the National Media Education Conference…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper describes the efforts of the Caption Center at television station WGBH to caption the television production "The scarlet Letter." Among the challenges for the captioners working on the project were the complex syntax and archaic vocabulary and difficulty in the…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper reports on one computer-based educational application, the PLATO system. The system began in 1960 and changes over the years are described, as well as current capabilities. Potential uses of PLATO with the deaf, blind, and multiply handicapped, using adapted terminals, are…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper reports on the status of the National Media Center for Severely Handicapped Persons. Listed among the six major objectives of the center is the location and retrieval of instructional media materials. (PHR)

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf. Describes a system for synchronization of continuous speech with printed text. Explains the function of a glossynograph, which combines speech and printed text in accordance with synchronization information supplied by synchronization programs. Identifies synchronization routines.…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper describes a satellite demonstration of video disc materials. It is explained that a panel of deaf individuals in Washington, D.C. and another in Nebraska came into direct two-way communication for the first time, and video disc materials were broadcast via the satellite.…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper discusses the use of the balloon captioning (expansion of successive portions of a captioned word in synchronization with the audio) of song lyrics for the reinforcement of speech with the deaf. (PHR)

An overview of a symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf, "Educational Technology for the 80s" is presented. Among developments reviewed are the video cassette, the video disc, and a "closed captioning" system for television sets in which only those sets with a special adaptor will produce captions. (PHR)

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper presents guidelines and suggestions for the use of games and simulations in the education of this population. Steps in the design of games, such as determining the educational goals and objectives of the games, are discussed. (PHR)

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper reports on the Media Development Project for the Hearing-Impaired (MDPHI). The goals and objectives of the project are outlined and include the adaptation of existing materials and field-testing new materials, among others. (PHR)

A brief summary of the symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf is presented. The growing role of computers in the education of the deaf is recounted and specific systems, reported on in the symposium, are reviewed. (PHR)

As the authors write this on October 26, 2003, they are flying home to Hawaii after four days of educational excitement at the 2003 AECT International Student Media Festival in Anaheim. While there, they spent 16 hours a day meeting students and teachers from all over the country, attending meetings, teaching workshops, being amazed at the quality…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the article describes Project Video Language, a videotaped instructional program for hearing-impaired kindergarten through sixth-grade children. Evaluation of the program showed that the packets are effective and enable teachers to move more rapidly through material. Additionally,…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper describes the seven formats or media needed in the eighties: (1) sound recording and reproduction, (2) still image recording and reproduction, (3) sound plus still images, (4) silent moving passages, (5) moving passages with sound, (6) sound plus still plus moving images,…