Students' backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. This book is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning. With a strong theoretical grounding and many…

Collected here are articles by 24 authors on the art of creative teaching through the use of media. This collection is divided into two main parts. Part I entitled "Why?" is comprised of general essays and conversations on teaching. Part II entitled "How and Why?" covers creative teaching with sample experiences and discussions of materials and…

Eleven potential relationships exist among simultaneously presented messages in multi-image lectures. These are redundancy, cross-modality redundancy, generic/specific relationships, comparison/contrast, interaction of variables, parallel messages, analogical messages, temporal relationships, spatial relationships, generic concepts, and ideograms.…

This volume is a supplement to "K-12 Resources on the Internet: An Instructional Guide" and is intended for teaching trainers that prepare Internet workshops in schools and libraries. It includes the following materials: guidelines on how to use this supplement together with the Instructional Guide in preparing a workshop; tips on how to use the…

Presented as a paper at the 1974 Conference on Non-Formal Education held at the Michigan State University, this bulletin contains selective digests of not readily available, unpublished and published documents, research reports, summaries, descriptive articles, conference reports, international surveys, and observer or participant reports on the…

The idea that the multimedia concept is a fad is described as nonsense, and its broadening and far-reaching realm in society is detailed. The type of media found in a school library media center and their applications are listed for the benefits of teachers. Ways in which media can be used to encourage student interest are discussed. Teachers are…

This bibliography provides a classified arrangement of a representative cross-section of the literature in the area of research in instructional media. Nearly 3,500 references are included in such fields as computer-assisted instruction, films, individualized instruction, instructional technology, management of information, mass media, media…

In the midst of an information explosion, it is increasingly important for educators and students to learn how to effectively use new technologies. Technologies impacting education are examined, including school LANs (Local Area Networks), the Internet, and multimedia, and the best use of these technologies in an educational setting is…

The second supplement to the new (1972) edition of the Survey of Research in Audiovisual Aids carried out in Great Britain covers the year 1974. Ten separate sections cover the areas of projected media, non-projected media, sound media, radio, moving pictures, television, teaching machines and programed learning, computer-assisted instruction,…

This guide argues that cataloging rules for all materials, both book and nonbook, should be based on the same principles so that all catalog records can be in one file. The guidance in this book applies to collections that are directly accessible to the public where archival conservation plays little role. It is written for libraries that…

A revised edition of this handbook provides illustrated, step-by-step explanations of how to plan and produce audiovisual materials. Included are sections on the fundamental skills--photography, graphics and recording sound--followed by individual sections on photographic print series, slide series, filmstrips, tape recordings, overhead…

This book, designed as both a teaching and a learning tool, provides guidelines on how to use Internet tools (World Wide Web, e-mail, Gopher, and others) to find K-12 projects, reference sources, school assignments, fun activities, current information, pen-pals worldwide, team projects with other students around the world, special-education…

A three-phase plan for organizing a school media center provides step-by-step instruction on planning, ordering materials, and curriculum implementation. Design of media centers for both existing facilities and new schools are discussed. Topics covered include scheduling the use of media-center time, organizing the curriculum, and involving the…

This book describes developments in interactive multimedia (IMM) in the early 1990s. Its aim is to provide educators, students, trainers, librarians, managers, and practitioners with an overview, not only of the directions and uses of the technology, but also of the research foundations and educational and contextual issues that need to be…

This is the first book to survey the region's use of educational media and summarise the experiences of different Commonwealth Asian countries in one collection. It includes a review of the key issues, country studies, research reviews and several case studies on harnessing technologies for distance-learning initiatives. The book is designed to…