Describes the advantages of working with students in a boarding school on newspaper production in staff selection, preliminary dummy layout, distribution, and staff training. (CRH)

Outlines a course experiment in which a public affairs reporting class utilized cable television facilities to produce a magazine show and thus learn the differences between working in print and an electronic medium. (CRH)

Presents a day-by-day account of a beginning filmmaking course for a seventh-grade class. (MM)

Examines the goals, formats, and effectiveness of current educational programming and provides insight into some important questions, such as: What are the alternative instructional messages of television programming? How are they best communicated? (Author/IRT)

Designed to combine with studies in various disciplines, such as history, costume, language, dance, music, and social studies, the 10 plays in this book are drawn from the fount of American folklore and popular culture. They range from European, African, and Asian folktales recast in New World settings to the mythology associated with real-life…

This packet of information for new scholastic journalism teachers (or advisers) compiles information on professional associations in journalism education, offers curriculum guides and general help, and contains worksheets and handouts. Sections of the packet are: (1) Professional Help (Journalism Education Association Information, and Other…

This report describes the use of the Internet as an image and information resource in an introductory television and radio production class (COMM 223: Principles of Radio and Television Production) at Western Illinois University. The report states that the class's two lab sections spent the first half of the semester preparing a television…

This performance guide is designed for teachers to use with students before and after a performance of "Sundiata: Lion King of Mali," adapted by Kim Hines and featuring Griot Alhaji Papa Susso. The guide, called a "Cuesheet," contains seven activity sheets for use in class, addressing: (1) Sundiata: Man & Myth (discusses…

This paper suggests teaching strategies for grades 4 through 12 that examine the commercial media and their messages as agenda setters, i.e., as mechanisms for selecting social issues, establishing their importance, and defining socially acceptable attitudes and responses to those issues. The strategies also explore how the media can create biased…

An annotated list, by topic, of 27 books about broadcast television. (CH)

Author, vice-president and director of research at the Children's Television Workshop, describes the research conducted for Sesame Street. (MB)

Explains how ineffective journalism and speech classes were replaced by student-produced and -performed closed-circuit television newscasts. (SW)

Describes nine books available from various publishers which are recommended for the reference library of a stagecraft teacher. (RD)

Discussion of three films which document Mexican-American workers' protest movements: "Salt of the Earth,""Huelga!" and "Decision at Delano." (RD)