The most successful assignment the author has developed is having students analyze magazine advertisements. The students consider audience, classification, appeal, visual factors, and selling technique. (Author/JB)

Suggests that students authoring and publishing books for younger children can produce extraordinary results, not the least of which is the effect on children--the ones who make the books and the ones for whom they are made--as readers of literature. (AEA)

Suggestions for using various dramatic techniques including a student-written cabaret to teach German at all levels of proficiency are described. The method promotes language proficiency, is pedagogically sound, flexible, rewarding, and fun. It can be adapted for use in teaching other languages. (PMJ)

This article explains the components of the reading box and trading program wherein each student creates an activity box based on books. The boxes contain books, comprehension folders, and games and activities for developing language arts, reading and thinking skills. (KC)

Discusses the need for appropriate basic literacy materials, notes the value of student-produced materials, and describes British publications produced by students and tutors. (CHC)

Offers information on the Community College Association for Instructional Technology's Video Competition, which offers a forum for displaying and commending the exemplary work of students and faculty in video. Considers the benefits of community college production studios/media technology programs' entering the contest. (DMM)

Presents the suggestions of seven contributors concerning ways to publish student writing, including: school magazines, community involvement projects requiring written communication, reproduction and dissemination of students' work within the school's library system, contributions to commercial literary magazines, and "public" readings of…

Discussion of learners' prior knowledge focuses on a method for exploring common-sense reasoning by engaging secondary school students in the development of an expert system representing their own intuitive expertise. Students' intuitive concerns are discussed; patterns of reasoning are examined; and epistemic planes are described. (23 references)…

Three case examples in health education and one in literacy illustrate the process of participatory materials development based on Freire's principles. Materials that reflect the people and language of the community can provide a powerful model. (SK)

Student-generated case materials involve description of an experience-based situation, analysis, generation of alternatives, action plan, and reflection. They address weaknesses of traditional case analysis, including implementation of alternatives and reflection on one's perceptions and behavior. (Contains 34 references.) (SK)

In this article, the author, an associate professor at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, describes how her early childhood education class assisted in the development of the "Literacy Luncheon." As part of a class assignment, each student was required to create an "ABC" book that would fit into a unit of study they would…

In this study, Grade 9 students wrote experiment manuals for their peers describing a simple physics investigation to explore whether air takes space. Peers executed these manuals and their processes were videotaped. In several experimental conditions, these videotapes were played back for authors. Then they had to rewrite the experiment manual.…