This paper discusses a class project in which a broadcast education professor's students at Southern Arkansas University produced campus news stories for the local NBC affiliate--the affiliate ran the stories once a week on their newscasts. The paper begins with a short explanation of course requirements for Advanced Electronic News Gathering and…

In 1990, Warner Brothers Television made a bold decision to recruit new, young writers from outside the Los Angeles (California) area. The method they first chose was a contest for East-coast Baltimore (Maryland) area. The writers with the reward of an opportunity to receive additional training in Los Angeles. Since this approach was expensive,…

A German version of the Sesame Street television program which integrates social and political education is described. (DE)

Planned changes in instructional television programming for grades 5-10 for the school year 1974/5, and to some extent for 1975/6, are reported. Information regarding seminars for inservice training and suppliers of written material is given. (RM)

This matrix keys school films to the social studies competency-based curriculum cbjectives for grade 5. Three television series are included. Emphasis is placed on geography, people, and the economy, but the themes are also related to history and government. The first series, "Across Cultures," focuses on the people of North America, South…

This paper presents a redefinition of the term "television," examines problems of determining the effects of television on children, reviews research on possible effects of TV on children, and concludes by focusing on prosocial, educational programming. The argument is made that because we are immersed in the phenomenon of television, we…

A program of cooperative instruction making maximum use of educational television for 24 elementary schools and 2 high schools in American Samoa is described. The instructional team consists of studio teacher, research teacher, producer-director, librarian, classroom teacher, technical personnel. The team prepares cooperatively, the various stages…

This background paper for a planning conference on instructional television (ITV) programming for the secondary school audience provides a list of more than 300 telecourses for secondary schools that have been, or are now, available for national, regional, statewide, or local ITV use. Information was gathered from general distribution catalogs as…

This report summarizes results of a survey administered to Johnson County Community College (JCCC) students enrolled in two television courses, Classic Theatre, and The Ascent of Man, during fall 1975. Although questionnaires were mailed to 60 students in Classic Theatre and 121 in The Ascent of Man, usable responses were received from only 23 (38…

In recent years, the cable television industry has been marked by prolific growth both in the number of stations and in the number of subscribers, and its legitimacy has been affirmed by a Supreme Court decision which placed the industry under the control of the Federal Communications Commission, (FCC) but the full potential of cable television…

Reported is a study of the effectiveness of the use of television for a series of ten science lessons on the Community of Living Things, presented to students in grades six, seven and eight, of fifteen different teachers. The behaviors (verbal and non-verbal) were analyzed into six levels of cognitive content and five categories of…

Selected findings of a recent national study of participants in a televised college-credit drama course (Classic Theatre: The Humanities in Drama) are reported. Information was obtained through 24 institutions offering the course; through questionnaires administered to samples of students, faculty members, and administrators; and through site…

Four recent British Broadcasting Company (BBC) continuing education projects are described ("Living Decisions in Family and Community that encourages further education; "Kontakte," a beginning German course; Adult Literacy Project; Trade Union Studies Project) and characteristics of the present and future contribution of…

Describes the effectiveness of telecourses in adult outreach efforts and the contribution of community colleges in developing this medium, based on conclusions reached at the first meeting of the AACJC Task Force on the Uses of Mass Media for Learning. (RT)

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)