We evaluated the effectiveness of the use of an electronic personal response system (or "clickers") during an introductory psychology lecture on perceptual constancy. We graphed and projected student responses to questions during the lecture onto a large-screen display in Microsoft PowerPoint. The distributions of answers corresponded…

The pace of technology adoption by university faculty is often slow. Slow faculty technology adoption may result from fear of failure, disinterest, or aversion to change. However, in 2007 we experienced a different faculty response while training faculty for technology-enhanced teaching at Butler University. During a technology upgrade of…

This DVD begins a conversation about the education workforce for the year 2020. The video was shown as part of the 2006 Annual Meeting Opening Night Program and was followed by a panel discussion among teacher educators, moderated by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) President/CEO Sharon P. Robinson.

In this article, the authors present their analysis of preservice teachers video production. Twenty-eight students in the first authors Social Foundations of the Elementary Curriculum course produced a 5 to 10 minute video as the major assignment for the class, interviews were conducted with six of the seven video production groups and the videos…

Mechanical systems have structural organizations--parts, and their relations--and functional organizations--temporal, dynamic, and causal processes--which can be explained using text or diagrams. Two experiments illustrate the role of arrows in diagrams of mechanical systems. In Experiment 1, people described diagrams with or without arrows,…

Article considers the reversal methods of processing to obtain black and white transparencies for projection directly from the ordinary negative film exposed in the camera in the usual way. (Author)

Use of dance notation as a visual aid. (JS)

Eight visual effects of interest in a discussion of perception and a ninth, complex effect requiring prior preparations and polaroid filters are described. (Author/JH)

Rules for women's soccer, speedball, and flag football from June 1972 to June 1974 are discussed. Standards in sports for girls and women are detailed along with the Division for Girls and WOMEN[S Sports (DGWS) statement of belief, Specific articles dealing with the skills, techniques, and rules of soccer, speedball, and flag football are…

Numerous studies indicate that the overhead transparency is an effective means of communicating in the instructional process and is favored by both the instructor and the student because of its flexibility and interest value. This index to overhead transparencies lists over 35,000 main titles and provides information on each about its size and…

An excerpt from a reference guide to be published through the American Society for Training and Development, this guide is intended to assist course developers in the selection, development, and testing of "software" materials. (Author)

There is a natural unique relationship between non-verbal communication and visual media such as television and film. Visual media will have to be used extensively--almost exclusively--in teaching non-verbal communications, as well as other methods requiring special teaching skills. (Author/ER)

Shows how to draw on photographs and bleach unwanted detail away. (BD)