EDUCATION AND TRAINING, BEGINNING 18 MONTHS BEFORE THE OPENING IN 1962 OF THE NEW SPENCER WORKS STEEL PLANT OF RICHARD THOMAS AND BALDWINS, LTD., IN MONMOUTHSHIRE, ENGLAND, INVOLVED ALL LEVELS OF PERSONNEL. (SOME PROGRAMS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR CLERICALS, WERE DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE OPENING.) THE UNDEVELOPED SITE, RADICALLY NEW EQUIPMENT AND…

Focusing on the occupational clusters of business, sales and trades, arts and entertainment, transportation and communication, and technology and research, this unit entitled "TV Industry" is one of three grade 6 units which are part of a total set of twenty-seven career development curriculum units for grades K-6. This unit is organized…

A film course especially designed for technical communication students can illustrate basic film concepts and techniques while showing how film effectively communicates ideas in an industrial and scientific communication system. After a basic introduction to film terms, the study of actual scientific and industrial films demonstrates the following…

This document contains three reports. The first, "What Is Mediated Instruction?," discusses programs of media services--their goals, how they operate, and their functions, and describes the Learning Resources Center at Los Angeles City College (LACC), which emphasizes self-paced individualized instruction and which utilizes a new…

The Thomson Foundation trains journalists and television producers and engineers from developing nations in order to help these nations use mass communication techniques in education. Applicants must be fluent in English; moreover, their employers must certify that the applicants merit overseas training and will return to their work after…

This teacher's guide, the result of a 3-year Title 3 project, is a sequentially arranged program designed to introduct high school students to acting and to provide them with an understanding of the uniqueness of dramatic literature, particularly Shakespearean drama. The processes of the theatre are explored, introducing improvisational exercises…

In a program launched in 1961, more than one and a half million students in nearly three-hundred Delhi Secondary Schools regularly view television lessons closely related to their prescribed course of studies. The outstanding elements in the Delhi scheme are: planning, cooperation at all levels, integration with the syllabi in the schools, and…

Based on the premise that in situations where the subject requires visual identification, where students cannot see the subject physically from the standpoint of the instructor, and where there is a high dramatic impact, color and television might be significant factors in learning, a comparative evaluation was made of: color television, black and…

A total of 3039 tenth-grade students in seven Pennsylvania high schools participated in an experiment, part of a study to attempt an assessment of the relative contribution to learning from the following: 1. Films of participation (by immediate audience response to inserted questions on salient facts). 2. Films of reinforcement (by immediate…

Part of a larger research program to determine the principles of effective production and utilization of filmic instructional devices, this paper deals with activities in Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Activities in each of these countries form the basis for each of the three chapters of this report. The chapter on Great Britain describes:…

The course outline has been prepared as a guide to help the students gain mastery in the proper brush techniques required for efficiency in brush lettering. The student is first given an orientation to the materials and equipment used, and the preparation of tempera paints for brush lettering. After this introduction, the student is guided through…

The intent of this field tested instructional package is to acquaint the student with materials used by industry for the production of goods and services. Defining behavioral objectives, the course description includes a media section, suggested classroom activities, and sample student evaluation forms, as well as the basic information section. It…

A secondary level, multicurricular Quinmester course on stage design is tentatively outlined. The study and application of design and construction as it relates to stage production introduces students to the setting that man creates to give an illusion of the time, locale, and mood for his dramatic productions. The overall success of this illusion…

Audio control is the operation of all the types of sound equipment found in the studios and control rooms of a radio or television station. Written in a nontechnical style for beginners, the book explains thoroughly the operation of all types of audio equipment. Diagrams and photographs of commercial consoles, microphones, turntables, and tape…

Small-scale industry in Sierra Leone, Africa was examined in terms of: labor intensity; output generated per unit of capital; generation of positive economic profits by small-scale industry groups/processes; and seasonal and locational variations. Key analytical issues were the nature of small-scale industry supply and demand processes. Data were…