The purpose of this study is to further the effective utilization of films by developing an instrument for their selection from descriptions in catalogs.

The present study is an attempt to obtain, from two groups of students, useful facts with which to evaluate the most effective method of presenting educational materials to junior-high-school students. The study is an attempt to measure and evaluate the achievement made in social studies, reading comprehension, and vocabulary in 1949 and 1950. The following questions form the basis for the present study: What method is best for the purpose of presenting materials to a class? Which method helps to solve the problem of the student most effectively? By which method is greater achievement made? If the two methods prove of equal value, then how much achievement may be attributed to the use of each method?

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the use of filmstrips as an aid in teaching reading to a group of first grade children in the Tom Bean Consolidated School. A further purpose, and probably the most important as it deals with the ultimate objective of education, is the effect that visual aid has upon the behavior of boys and girls.

The problem of this investigation was two-fold: first, to obtain general information on auditory and visual aids and their apparent values in the schoolroom; and second, to find out to what extent these aids were used in eighty representative schools of Texas during 1945-1946.

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The problem of this study was to obtain empirical evidence of the functional nature of the Audio-visual Identification Instruction (AVII) model for designing effective music instruction for young children. The method was to use materials prepared according to the model specifications in actual classroom conditions. The purpose of the study was to compare the achievement gain of second grade children of high, middle, or low musical aptitude levels, who were instructed by experienced music specialists, first year music specialists, student teacher music specialists, or experienced classroom teachers using AVII model materials, on three tasks in the area of pitch and three tasks in the area of timbre. Subject to the circumstances and limitations of this investigation, the results indicate that the AVII model is effective for instruction for musical naming and identification tasks for young children.

A questionnaire related to environmental awareness was administered to 244 students enrolled in NR 101, Introduction to Natural Resources, during the Spring Quarter of 1979 in an attempt to answer the following questions: (1) To what extent will viewing a slide-tape presentation alter student responses on a questionnaire? (2) To what extent will the responses of the students viewing a slide-tape presentation differ from a control treatments result in significant differences in responses when compared to a control group?Results of this research indicate the treatments did alter the students' responses on one factor. The responses were altered towards an environmentally aware position and there were significant differences between treatment group responses when compared to the control group.Ball State UniversityMuncie, IN 47306

This is a handbook of multimedia technology and multimedia production teaching strategies that include the following: lesson and unit plans, worksheets, with teacher directions and student instructions, interdisciplinary activities for use in secondary level classrooms, lists of useful reading material, and sources of supplies used in the described student multimedia activities.

As educators, communicating timely, important information to parents and to the community is a challenge. By using video technology, the ability to convey such information is not only possible but rather simple. Taking it one step further, utilizing cable television allows for the transmission of a variety of information to every living room in our community.

Audio-visual work and audio-visually used works and performances Abstract The aim of the diploma thesis on Audio-visual work and audio-visually used works and performances is to provide an overview of key concepts of the Czech audiovisual legislation. The thesis mainly focuses on private-law aspects of copyright, but it also touches upon the subject of public regulation in the field of public support of audio-visual sector, regulation of advertising and media, or liability for administrative and criminal offences committed by infringement of the relevant intellectual property rights. Emphasis is placed on the intellectual property related to the creation of audio-visual work as a subject matter of copyright protection and on the entities and individuals that participate in the creation and production of audio-visual work. The first part of the thesis covers basic copyright concepts of the Czech legal system and sources of law relevant to the audio-visual sector, and it briefly mentions the legal instrument of collective rights management in the Czech Republic. The second part of the thesis covers the main topic of this work. Its first chapter defines the concept of author's work and examines the concept of audio-visual works and their classification, while also mentioning the concept of multimedia works and...