This article explores PowerPoint slideshow's capacities for introducing history teachers and students to the pictorial and digital turns for representing and narrating the past. Based upon this research, the author argues that image-dominated PowerPoint slideshow provides teachers and students with a unique and powerful tool for composing and…

This paper introduces various visual models for the analysis and description of learning processes. The models analyse learning on two levels: the dynamic level (as a process over time) and the functional level. Two types of model for dynamic modelling are proposed: the session trace, which documents a specific learner in a particular learning…

Gives information for producing 35mm slides and for constructing a copy stand for the production of close-up photographs. (GS)

A discussion of the advantages of various reproduction machines. (HB)

Introduction: This paper extends a series on summaries of Web objects, in this case, the alt attribute of image files. Method: Data were logged from 1894 pages from Yahoo!'s random page service and 4703 pages from the Google directory; an img tag was extracted randomly from each where present; its alt attribute, if any, was recorded; and the…

This experiment was designed to determine the relative effectiveness of different types of visual illustrations used to complement instruction presented in in-service training. (Authors/JA)

This bibliography lists audial and visual aids for the teaching of Italian available in the United States and in Canada. (AM)

Focusing on the production and utilization of printing processes in constructing effective visuals for teaching, this bulletin contains articles on the silk screening stencil process, use of a similar process with a portable mimeograph, and the hectograph process. The first article lists equipment needed to make a silk screen, steps in building…

This guide to the classroom use of the blackboard, part of a series intended for second language teachers, is profusely illustrated in such a way as to make it useful in many classroom contexts. A discussion of the different varieties of classroom writing boards precedes an extensive "blackboard methodology." The mechanics of writing on the board…

Intended to provide media staff, library personnel, and educators with a bibliographical guide to commercially-produced educational slides, this computer computer-generated listing contains over 20,000 entries. The volume is divided into three principal sections: (1) a subject guide to educational slides including a subject heading outline and an…

The acid/base, reductant/oxidant, and solid/solute scales that are described can be used as visual representations of equilibrium expressions. (BB)

Proposes a method for French language instruction that uses an unidentified object, that is, an object constructed in such a way as to represent different things to different students. (AM)

This article discusses the purposes for which slides may be used in the foreign language classroom and how they can be displayed. (CFM)

Provided is a schematic diagram of the projector and a circuit diagram of the optical and electrical components of a simple planetarium that will seat 12 people. There is also a simple map showing major concepts of introductory positional astronomy. (AJ)

Described are 12 suggestions for using the overhead projector. Suggestions include preparation of transparencies, use of color, storage of transparencies, and projection of transparencies. (RH)