This exploration of the origins of educational communications and technology as a field focuses on the 1920s when the visual education movement first appeared. An explanation of the study precedes separate reviews of 13 primary sources--i.e., visual education textbooks--and draws on them to provide evidence for an analysis of the ideas and forces…

A study examined the expectation that videotaped male models would be rated similarly to ratings previously found in research literature for red, blue, and monotone hues, and high, medium, and low levels of color saturation. Using a Graeco-Latin Square design, the ratings of 147 subjects (communications students at the University of Utah) were…

Over the last 10 years, French television's Institute of Audiovisual Communication (INA) has shifted from modernist to post-modernist practice in broadcasting in a series of innovative audiovisual magazine programs about communication, and in a series of longer "compilation" documentaries. The first of INA's audiovisual magazines,…

The innovative use of a visual cueing device, or rods, in a second language class to represent the parts of speech and the grammatical structure of a sentence is explained and illustrated. The advantages found in it are that individual structures are not learned as isolated elements but rather as parts of a larger system, and that there is more…

The role that illustrations can play in textbooks and other instructional materials is an issue that must appear rather baffling to the instructional materials designer. Focusing primarily on the use of illustrations in textbooks designed for able readers, a literature review has revealed the following: (1) illustrations have been shown in a few…

An internal cognitive variable--mental imagery representation--was studied using a set of three information-processing strategies under external stimulus visual display conditions for various learning levels. The copy strategy provided verbal and visual dual-coding and required formation of a vivid mental image. The relational strategy combined…

Described is a media-oriented program to improve communication between parents and their deaf child or adolescent. (Author/MC)

Discusses the overhead projector and its use in the language class. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes a computer program, designed for second semester organic chemistry courses, which graphically displays organic synthesis routes on a screen. (MLH)

Sketches a Russian lesson at Grade 9 on the Soviet hero Mikhail Devyatyev. Guidance on method, using teaching aids (blackboard pictures and filmstrips), is included. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Proposes a study of the various ways in which words and groups of words can be matched with single non-coded pictures as an aid to foreign language instruction, particularly French. (AM)

Discusses the linguistic and non-linguistic contributions of visual aids in the foreign language classroom. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Describes the use of a set of 38 mm polystyrene spheres on which are marked the symbols for the elements in consecutive pairs to familiarize students with periodic classification and to illustrate relationships between quantum numbers. (GS)