If a satellite-based educational networking and delivery system is to find wide acceptance in the United States and is to be economically viable, it must be capable of interconnecting many headends or nodes on the ground and of delivering quantities of diverse program material. A large number of TV-equivalent bandwidth channels will be required to…

In an attempt to provide a manual and guide for practitioners and students of educational television, the principles of educational television are described, along with a variety of applications. Methods of utilization and evaluation are provided with full treatment of problems in staffing, recruiting, and training. (Author/RH)

The lower elementary form of the student opinionnaire "How I Feel About Television in School" consists of directions for administration and 20 questions to be read aloud to students. They respond by drawing an X through one of four faces (from very happy to very unhappy) corresponding to the way they feel about the question being asked. (For…

This form of the instructional television questionnaire, intended for the upper elementary grades, consists of 15 questions to be answered by circling either yes or no, 12 sentence-completion items, and 1 question calling for three original sentences from the student about himself and television in school. (For related documents, see TM 001…

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) during its period of monopoly television, the coming of ITV (independent television), the reaction and adaptation of the BBC to a competitive situation, and the effect on British television programing are the subjects of this history of British television. (RH)

Data collected by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Center for Educational Statistics (U.S. Office of Education), and the National Association for Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) were used to compile the reports in this directory. As well as listing the major components of the educational telecommunications system in the United…

Presented in this booklet is the commentary for "The American Land," a television series prepared by the Soil Conservation Service and the Graduate School, United States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with WETA - TV, Washington, D.C. It explores the resource of land in America, its history, soil, water, wildlife, agricultural land…

Public broadcasting and educational television are struggling to define themselves. Public broadcasting represents our common search for meaning through our efforts at forming and experiencing images. The brief declaration for "freedom" and "imagination" written by Congress into the public broadcast law forms a symbolic…

Rhode Island College in Providence had a televised biology course from 1964 to 1967. The televised lectures were unrehearsed and delivered without visual aids. Student reaction was so unfavorable that the televised course was discontinued. For the 1968 school year, a series of 64 videotaped lectures were produced, each approximately 35 minutes in…

Contends that a single television production from one centralized source exposes children to largely standardized cultural material and is therefore a potential massive cultural assault with incalculable consequences. (MH)

The history of the TV College of the City Colleges of Chicago is briefly reviewed, trends in the educational television field are identified, and recommendations for other educational television services are made. Issues discussed include: interinstitutional cooperation, the "talking face," and the necessity of varied programming. (NHM)

In Surrey, where there are not enough specialist teachers to provide Latin, educational television courses are being designed from two text series: "Ecce Romani" by Oliver and Boyd, and the "Cambridge Latin Course." (SJL)

Notes that instructional television uses special programing which can motivate student readers and describes several ITV programs which are available from nonprofit distributors. (MKM)

Describes how commercial television techniques and formats were used in an instructional television program on logical fallacies in order to capture students' attention. (DD)

Television, with its undeniable impact, is here to stay. Educators should learn to use the medium to their advantage instead of constantly decrying its content. (Author)