Briefly describes an innovative technique for teaching understanding through a controlled situation package involving multimedia techniques. Training Technology is a quarterly supplement to Educational Technology Magazine. (GR)

Description of Lamplighter School, an innovative primary school in Dallas, Texas. (SP)

A drawing board support solves the problem of teaching mechanical drawing in a general shop without drawing tables. (GR)

An experimental program at Valencia Junior College (Florida) allows every student to actively participate in all phases of the political science course. A variety of multimedia materials, which the students help to develop and evaluate, are used. (BB)

The League for Innovation in the Community College surveyed representative new developments in league colleges and disseminated the findings. (MS)

Surveys the status of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in English. (JL)

Describes the evolving functions of an in-house art gallery at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin elementary school. Teachers used the gallery exhibits extensively as an educational resource and as the basis of their classroom activities. Exhibit themes always involved at least two curriculum areas. (AM)

Using a speaker-phone installed for less than $40, a class at Georgia's Lakeview-Ft. Oglethorpe High School interviewed more than 20 local and national figures in government and journalism in conversations ranging from 15 to 30 minutes yet accrued a phone bill of less than $60. (Author/PGD)

Describes the National Diffusion Network, a federally-sponsored program that identifies successful educational practices and then helps other schools locate and adopt them. (IRT)

Describes an instructional development project in higher education, including the problem addressed, the parameters of the solution, the development process used, the costs involved, and the results of the project. (Author/JEG)

Defines instructional development, describes the scope of the research and knowledge base upon which its practice is built, comments upon the sufficiency of the investigation into the components of that knowledge base, and poses questions for future research. (Author)