British media study course and curriculum guide. (CH)

Response to CS 703 406. (CH)

The "School Without Schools" experiment in Columbus, Ohio, is now seen by many as a model of how the human and physical resources of a community can be used for educational value. (Author)

This study, concerned with radio and television instructional programs in 2-year colleges, was designed to: collect information about, and stimulate interest in, these programs; suggest guidelines for establishing new programs or improving existing ones; provide a directory of colleges with such offerings; and discuss (and propose solutions to)…

Recommends increased public participation in educational television programming. (LK)

A justification, curriculum, and course outline for the study of television. (CH)

A wide variety of media subjects are discussed in an introductory mass communication course at Southern Arkansas University, and one of the most popular instructional sections with students is "infomercials." This paper acquaints students with the history, scope, and controversy surrounding the infomercial genre. It first explains that…

Television, the author asserts, is the overwhelming factor in the continuous education and socialization of people of developed nations. Examines criticism of mass media's potential for behavior modification and subconscious manipulation. Advocates alternative uses of television based on Paulo Freier's "total language" approach, to teach…

Describes the components of a video studies curriculum developed and offered at Classical High School in Springfield, Massachusetts. The curriculum includes telecommunications, film and video production, the use of technical equipment, and journalism. (GC)

Defining the externship as an internship hybrid, an away-from-campus one-day experience which faculty build into the required assignments of many upper-division courses, this paper discusses a particular externship at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville which is a regular part of a 300-level broadcast news course. All of the students in…

STARTING IN FEBRUARY 1961, THE MIDWEST PROGRAM ON AIRBORNE TELEVISION INSTRUCTION (MPATI) TRANSMITTED COURSES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES, SCIENCE, ARITHMETIC, ART, THE HUMANITIES, MUSIC, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TO 18 SCHOOLS IN THE MIDWEST. THE AIRBORNE TELECAST OPERATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND TRANSMITTED COURSES OVER AN AREA…

Do textbooks matter in an ever-changing field of broadcast journalism? Are some teaching materials irrelevant or out of touch with equipment needs, or lack thereof, at small institutions? Noting that these questions need to be considered when evaluating broadcast or mass communication writing and production textbooks by national companies, this…

This research paper discusses the messages and approaches being implemented in current television curricula for young children in the area of fire safety education, describes the process whereby the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) staff generated topics and approaches for inclusion in the model television curriculum, and lists the resources…

Discusses the process of getting television into syllabuses as a subject; noting that the key question about a communications system is why the communicators want to communicate, and arguing that in the case of large networks, the purpose is to validate the existing social system, up-holding the concept of the political concensus and mainstream…