Designed for use in a secondary agricultural education class, this activity kit on floriculture consists of an instructor's manual and a student learning guide. The instructor's manual contains this information: duration, goals, a list of instructional objectives, the vocational clusters to which this activity is related, activity implementation…

This slide script, part of a series of slide scripts designed for use in vocational agriculture classes, deals with ornamental annual plants and their uses. Included in the script are narrations for use with a total of 254 slides illustrating 97 different plants. At least two slides are provided for each plant: one shows the growth habits of the…

This document presents the full text of a self-paced library skills workbook which was piloted in fall 1984 in all sections of freshmen English composition courses at Georgia College. The workbook text is divided into four units of instruction: (1) An Introduction to Georgia College's Russell Library; (2) The Divided Card Catalog Revisited and an…

This guide for an adult marketing education course provides instructors with the necessary materials to present a seminar about "image management to project professionalism." General teaching suggestions are provided as well as a course outline and a time chart that provides guidelines for the minimum and maximum time to be spent on each…

"Journeys Unlimited," a piece of theater-in-education performed by Australia's Bouverie St. Theatre-in-Education team during one term in 1979 and described in this paper, formed an integral component of a larger curriculum development program undertaken in Australian primary schools. This analysis of "Journeys Unlimited" is…

The scripts and accompanying activities for 18 videocassette French instruction programs are presented. The videocassettes were developed for elementary school children learning French at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels. The videocassettes and guide are available to West Virginia teachers in the Fairmont State College Library. The…

This paper describes an in-service course for the design, development, and evaluation of mediated learning activities. Each Learning Activities Package (LAP) has six basic components: concept, rationale, objectives, preassessment, activities, and evaluation. Each of these components is outlined, with emphasis placed on writing objectives…

Seven of the articles in this journal contain first-person descriptions of the procedures and methods used by outstanding American playwrights in creating their individual plays. The playwrights explain their own writing habits, working conditions, and revision processes in an effort to clarify the elements that contribute to the unusual…

To evaluate the effect of the children's television program "Sesame Street" on Chicano viewers and to identify areas for improvement, the Children's Television Workshop contracted with the Chicano Studies Center at the University of California at Los Angeles to provide the following services: (1) establish observation sites in the Los…

The document reports on the organization and implementation plans for Indiana's Second Annual Career Guidance Institute and the sound/slide programs developed on six career cluster areas. An extensive evaluation analyzes the Institute in light of its objectives, offers insights gained on career opportunities, gives changes in attitude regarding…

There is no mystique about television--a teacher and a television director don't need to have specialist knowledge about electronics, physics or optics to produce closed circuit educational television programs. This book is intended to be a basic guide for the many students and teachers in Britain who are now working in closed circuit educational…

This book covers the aesthetic and production aspects of the 1951 musical film, "An American in Paris," through interviews with many of the production specialists who helped make this motion picture. The film represents the genre of the color Hollywood musical. It was the winner of six Academy Awards, featured a major star and a developing star,…

Intended as a basic text for the student, teacher, or professional, this book covers several major aspects of broadcasting. The section on programming suggests ways to capture the audience desired by the station. Job functions of studio personnel are explored. Operating and studio facilities, including microphones, tape recorders, records,…

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…

"Options in Education" is a radio program which focuses on issues and developments in education. This transcript of the show contains discussions of college and alumni relations, educational fund raising, parental influence on such school-related matters as cuts in teaching staff and proximity of freeways, doublespeak in the classroom,…