Describes a simple apparatus for producing strip holograms with a number of slit-shaped exposures displaced along the vertical direction. The hologram maintains full horizontal parallax, but the slit aperture reduces the vertical viewing angle of the animated object. (Author/GA)

With the help of the music, physical education, and art teachers, two third-grade classes wrote, scored, and produced an original operetta in a five-month interdisciplinary classroom project. The process is outlined and recommended by the authors for almost any grade level. (SJL)

Describes the work and preparation--as well as the student response-- that went into the Comic Book Club in an elementary school which resulted in a student developed comic book and comic book fair. (HOD)

One solution to poor quality sound in student video projects is a four-track audio cassette recorder. This article discusses the advantages of four-track over single-track recorders and compares two student productions, one using a single-track and the other a four-track recorder. (PEN)

Describes a study assessing the effects of technology on the production of college newspapers and assembling an overview of technology use at campus newspapers nationwide. Provides findings related to college journalism program enrollment, newspaper formats employed, funding, computer hardware, production methods, future plans, and innovative…

Presents a lesson plan that enables students to learn more about U.S. wartime production during World War II. Includes background information on wartime production efforts and provides activities for building upon this overview. Offers additional online resources, a bibliography, and primary sources. (CMK)

Discusses advancements in multimedia technology, and presents a design model for managing interactive multimedia courseware production that includes five phases: analysis, development, production, evaluation, and implementation. Five examples of interactive multimedia courseware are described. (Author/LRW)

Discusses the need for course assessment that includes the instructor's perception, the student's perception, and the student's performance and describes the roles that Web-based tools can play in the active learning process and in interactive assessment based on experiences with a multimedia production course. (LRW)

Described are instructional experiences with the use of homemade videofilms. Two particular techniques that can be useful in the production of these films are discussed including the use of chromakey and split-screen. (CW)

Reviewed are 15 methods for fast slide production. Methods are classified as in-hand methods and farmed-out methods of slide production. Slides are compared to transparencies as another fast presentation aid. (CW)

Examines network television newscasts' framing of stories about art and artists with content analysis techniques. Presents data on art-story types, number, time devoted, and their placement in newscasts. Compares treatment by networks over time. Examines art controversy stories for more subtle framing aspects. Discusses effects of media's…

Analyzes the rise of photography during the Civil War period, and discusses current photographic technology. Examines photography entrepreneurs, and expounds on notable individuals in photography. Describes types of photographs taken, problems encountered in gathering pictures, and popular responses to photography. Concentrates on Civil War…

Describes several high school television communications projects. Asserts that video production helps develop students' basic reading and writing skills as well as higher thinking skills. (MM)

Reviews multichannel learning research to find the best ways to combine audio and video in television to improve learning, and summarizes the research findings into principles for instructional television production. Highlights include the effects of redundancy on learning and on audience attention, message clarity, and problems in instructional…

Identifies the cognitive skills necessary for children to accurately comprehend projective size on television. Traces the acquisition of these skills and identifies the role of media experience in facilitating comprehension by assessing the extent to which different types of television fare require the use of different cognitive skills. (MS)