TEAMS Distance Learning is an Educational Telecommunications Network service of the Los Angeles County Office of Education (California). It provides live, interactive instructional telecasts for students in grades two through six and their teachers and parents across the United States and in Canada. This evaluation summary consists of an overview…

Live broadcast television lessons in the four subjects: Japanese, Maori, Spanish, and Technology, were broadcast from the New Zealand Correspondence School via Satellite and Sky television to selected schools around the country during 1996. The trial project ran from April to November, 1996, involving 86 schools, including primary, intermediate,…

Most teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) in Maine live over 30 miles from the nearest University of Maine campus. While the Maine Department of Education has been offering intensive ESL teacher training courses, a lack of qualified ESL teachers persists. The advent of microwave transmission means more opportunities for teacher training…

The success and rewards of working with educational audiotape cassettes are discussed, based in part on student responses to questionnaires from an earlier study of four Open University courses. Attention is drawn to characteristics of tapes which make them valuable for education. Both the product and the processes of making them are discussed,…

A survey was conducted to examine the instructional potential of six educational television programs designed to teach world history to high school students. Each of the six programs encapsulates the events of a given century as if it were a 15-minute evening newscast, providing interviews with famous figures, dramatic moments in history captured…

Science Unlimited (Pennsylvania Department of Education's elementary science effort) has developed a series of television programs for use in the primary and intermediate grades. These television programs form an integral part of science lessons which emphasize direct involvement of children with materials and ideas, provide for individual and…

The attention brought by Marshall McLuhan to our environment is perhaps his most general contribution to the language teacher. McLuhan often supports specific innovations in language instruction, including: (1) the emphasis on the spoken and heard aspects of a language; (2) the need for active student participation in learning; and (3) electronic…

Technological devices present a challenge that educators cannot afford to ignore. Properly incorporated into a controlled environment, these tools need not bring about any dehumanization of the schools. Traditional teaching methods, promotion policies, marking practices, and classrooms organized by grade level may allow control over what is…

The purpose of this evaluation study was to determine students' and classroom personnel's perceptions of and reactions to "Villa Alegre"--a television series produced by Bilingual Children's Television, Inc. and shown in various locations in the U.S. during the fall of 1974--when utilized in a classroom setting in order to ascertain…

The use of cable television at Oregon State University is described in the sixth of a series of profiles that will document the experiences of 24 institutions. Implementation of the technology is reviewed, as well as methods by which the educational needs of the university were met by it. Inducements for the cable operator are cited. In the early…

Recent research on the effectiveness of educational television (ETV) with adults in culturally different poverty groups suggests, first of all, that ETV for these groups must be combined with techniques (like listening groups) using volunteer teachers, and that such planning requires close cooperation between adult educators and media specialists.…

Identifies four characteristics of a cognitive model of learning (short-term and long-term memory, use of cognitive strategies, and dual information processing), and examines this model's implications for educational broadcast television design. This review focuses on research studies with instructional implications for pacing, cueing, modeling,…

Describes a preliminary investigation of the way an educational television program in London, "Look and Read," was used and evaluated by primary school students and teachers. Highlights include student and teacher interviews to determine attitudes; a comparison of two primary schools; learning strategies emphasized in the program; and…

Patterns of instructional television use in elementary and secondary school classrooms in Japan indicate heavy use in elementary schools and diminished use in secondary schools. Factors that contribute to this phenomenon are discussed, including school environment, sociocultural patterns, educational philosophy, and teacher training. (MBR)

Examines educational film and video as an affective or cognitive learning tool. Suggestions are given on how to select a film for a particular lesson; how to prepare students for viewing; how to structure a lesson including the language arts; and how students can be led to improved visual literacy though analysis of form and structure. (Author/KRN)