Explores some of the issues and ideas for training high school students in the language of the mass media. (RB)

Creating and displaying artworks based on words helps students appreciate the subtle strengths of language. (JH)

The articles in this volume have been selected from issues of "Media & Methods" of the past seven years. The first part of the book considers the problems and opportunities inherent in classroom film use, in articles by David A. Sohn, Charles F. Greiner, William Kuhns, Hugh Gilmore, Richard Lacey, Richard Beach, and Ken Donelson. Essays deal with…

This article describes the importance of architectural studies for art students. Recommends that architectural studies include historical trends, critical analysis, and studio practice. (JDH)

Describes a set of exercises that help students learn about filmmaking. (TO)

Asserting that photography teachers must emphasize the aesthetic aspects of photography over the technical, the author outlines a field trip activity and the necessary preparation for it. (SJL)

Discusses the Super-8 film format for high school classroom use. (CH)

Suggests ways to improve students' visual literacy through the study of paintings and photographs. (DD)

Suggests that films can enrich students' understanding of the literature on which they are based and can strengthen the same academic competencies students are expected to develop through reading. (MM)

Teachers of 13-year-old students are invited to participate in a place-vocabulary project conducted by the International Geographical Union. Students associate names of oceans, countries, and cities with their correct location on a world outline map. Although the test is included, teachers must contact the coordinator to participate. (KC)

History teachers should be less concerned with having students try to re-experience the past and more concerned with teaching them how to learn from the study of it. Keeping this in mind, teachers should integrate more critical film and television analysis into their history classes, but not in place of reading or at the expense of traditional…

This book is intended as an aid for high school English teachers who want to understand visual literacy and learn how to teach it. The first part of the book defines and analyzes the basic structural devices used in filmmaking. The first chapter in this section discusses how the creative use of these devices--composition, lighting and color,…

Film and writing each resolve quite differently the problem of how to communicate. Still, film can demonstrate some underlying principles that are helpful to writers, especially those writers lacking understanding or skill in certain writing principles. There are at least five principles that both film and composition portray: the importance of…