Evaluations are presented of recently produced media products designed for use in schools. The materials are grouped in three main categories--films, filmstrips and others, including kits, charts, tapes, filmloops and slides. Within categories, the products are arranged by the following subject matters: man as an individual, man as a social…

This guide contains lists of publishers of various kinds of instructional materials, textbooks and printed materials; audiovisual instructional materials; atlases, globes, maps, and accessories; tests, testing aids and services; and educational equipment and supplies. Each of these types is listed in a separate section, and each section is…

Describes surveys of elementary school teachers and teacher education institutions that were conducted to determine the relationship between the media instruction that is provided to preservice teachers and the use teachers make of media in the classroom. Recommendations for teacher education are given, and further research needs are suggested.…

Abstracts of 37 documents recently input to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) are compiled in this report. These documents were selected as being among the most significant of those dealing with the effective use of media in innovative schools and because they were of special interest to district level administrators, curriculum…

A review of the role of libraries from the time of Aristotle to the present is offered first, followed by a discussion of the foundation upon which the modern learning center rests. Subsequent chapters explore the teaching-learning role of the merged print/nonprint center, beginning with the elementary school and concluding with the university.…

This reference work lists approximately 900 games, covering almost all subject matter fields, which have sufficient intellectual content to be used for educational purposes by students ranging from the elementary grades to the university, government or business level. Arranged alphabetically by the name of the game, each entry provides information…

Describes a project that combines technology, teacher education, and the use of manipulatives for mathematics instruction to enhance the professional development of prospective teachers. The multimedia developed in the project are a means of bringing the classroom environment to the university to facilitate discussions about prospective teachers'…

The current paradox between the increasing interest in the utilization of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and the decreasing financial support from the Federal Government is briefly surveyed in the introduction of this annotated bibliography. The author also discusses the major problems that are now prevalent in CAI utilization: the lack of…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a report to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board by the Advisory Committee on Educational Television Services. The report distinguishes between two kinds of ETV: instructional and general enrichment. Since general enrichment is already covered by current Australian…

This annotated bibliography lists 109 entrees of selected educational materials in Pakistan covering the period from October through December 1971. Categories include: (1) administration, organization, and financing of education, (2) agricultural education, (3) childhood education, (4) comparative education, (5) curriculum, (6) development of…

Increasingly, library and audiovisual personnel are being asked to combine their services in situations where these services have previously been separated. This paper attempts to identify recent literature that may be helpful to those involved in implementing or using this broad spectrum of resources. References give author's name, title, data…

This practicum was designed to increase elementary education interns' use of video technology within the science curriculum. Interns from previous semesters were not using technology within their final semester projects, and most were not comfortable using technology. The purpose of this practicum was to increase the scientific and technological…

Two abstracts and seventeen articles on computer assisted instruction (CAI) presented at the 1976 Association for Educational Data Systems (AEDS) convention are included here. Four new computer programs are described: Author System for Education and Training (ASET); GNOSIS, a Swedish/English CAI package; Statistical Interactive Programming System…

The primary objectives of the project were to develop non-book instructional materials for use in Music Education, to put these materials into use, and to subsequently evaluate and refine the materials. The audiovisual materials and the equipment needed to present them included an overhead projector and various types of transparencies. The use of…