Presentation of raw text to language learners is not enough to ensure learning. Thus, we present the Smart and Immersive Language Learning Environment (SMILLE), a system that uses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for enhancing grammatical information in texts chosen by a given user. The enhancements, carried out by means of text highlighting, are…

Highlighting a hero is a common response to including the history of marginalized people in the curriculum. Harvey Milk is becoming that hero as social studies curriculum responds to calls for including LGBTQ people. By studying Milk, what might young people learn about LGBTQ people, issues, and movements? What opportunities and limitations exist…

This Film Focus series is a collection of reviews, essays, and commentaries on the Japanese film Rashomon. The plot consists of an attack, a rape, and a robbery, all of which probably occurred during the Middle Ages. Each character relates his own version of what happened, or might have happened, revealing the outward and inner driving forces,…

Cut! That's a take! An author's experience with a screenplay provides insights for young filmmakers. (Editor)

A collection of sixteen one-act royalty-free plays for teenagers, including detailed directions for costuming and staging, is presented. The variety of the dramatic material makes the plays suitable for production by drama classes, amateur theatre groups and drama workshops. The plays appear in one of the two parts of the book: I. Comedies, and…

Discusses ways that elementary social studies teachers can use television as a teaching tool. Book tie-ins, actual television scripts, the magazine, "Teachers Guide to Television," the use of materials on critical viewing skills, and the production of television shows on videocassettes by students are examined. (RM)

Multigenre texts are a recent trend in children's books. These types of books can enhance students' comprehension and provide models of various types of writing genres. They can be used in differentiating instruction and increasing fluency when transformed into readers' theater texts. Many examples of multigenre books are provided in this article.

This script of a slide-tape presentation, which describes the selection and processing of materials for a university library, includes commentary with indicators for specific slide placement. Distinction is made between books and serial publications and the materials are followed from the ordering decision through processing. The role of the…

In its endeavor to provide essential services to radio education on all school levels the Office of Education has provided for some years past a comprehensive radio and television bibliography. The 1948 edition covers the general fields of radio and television, as well as many of their specific uses as mediums of education. This annotated list now…

One of the notable evidences of growth in the field of educational radio and television is to be found in the increasing volume of new literature as it emerges each year. The Office of Education's Radio-Television Services, under the direction of Franklin Dunham, have followed the practice through the years of issuing periodically a bibliography…

A collection of thirty royalty-free one-act plays for young players, using a wide range of dramatic forms, imaginative settings and colorful characters, is presented. A variety of subjects is included in these comedies, dramas, spoofs and programs: science fiction, ecology, history, storybook classics, and glimpses into life and folklore of other…