This concise guide is designed to provide educators in universities and colleges with basic information on both the preparation and proper use of overhead transparencies for teaching purposes. Each step in the creation of high quality material is explained and illustrated, and the basic principles underlying learning from projected transparencies…

A study researched the differential uses readers make of analogic and visual prompts for understanding and remembering complex prose. Fifty-two eleventh grade students with average and above average reading ability enrolled in a comprehensive high school in central Georgia participated in the study. They were ranked according to their ability to…

Guidelines are provided for constructing, introducing, and using a planning board as an instructional aid with young children in learning centers. Basically, a planning board is a device that involves children in planning and selecting their own activities; it specifies in an appealing way what activities are available in classroom learning…

A sequel to the booklet "A Review of the Different Types of Instructional Materials Available to Teachers and Lecturers," this booklet begins by looking at the potential role of non-projected displays in different instruction situations, i.e., mass instruction, individualized learning, and group learning. Four main classes of non-projected…

Designed for use in conducting media production training with Peace Corps fieldworkers, this manual is divided into three sections: skill exercises, line drawings, and directions for making art supplies from easily obtainable, low cost resources. Nineteen step-by-step skill exercises cover basic cutting, wet and dry mounting, simple drawing,…

How the Northeast Regional Center for the Deaf developed a program designed to teach middle-school aged children how to communicate using visual media. (Author)

Insights the author gained during the course of an educational development project in Latin America. (Author)

Nearly 60 filmstrips, films, slides, records, tapes, game kits, archival sets, maps, photographs, and transparencies, produced in American and Britain, and dealing with sixteenth century English history are reviewed, described and arranged by subject with prices and addresses for acquisitions included. (JH)

Outlines a procedure for using oral and written commercial advertisements in the French language classroom. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes a reversal development process which produces black and white positive slides from two Kodak black and white films: Microfile AHU 6552, and High Contrast Copy Film 5069. (MLH)

Discusses the various uses of visual and audiovisual aids in language instruction. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses animated films as an alternative to the sound tape in oral comprehension teaching. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Paper folding activities can illustrate transformations that are circular and finite under one set of conditions and become rectangular and infinite when conditions change. (SD)