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Demery, Marie – 1988
The Clementine Hunter Black History Month Exhibition (Natchitoches, Louisiana) was a successful demonstration that five objectives can be achieved with a zero budget and teamwork. Objective 1 demonstrated that specially designed cultural and extracurricular events can be used as tools for retaining black students on a predominantly white college…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Art History
McCall, Cecelia – 1984
Designed to promote the use of microcomputers in reading instruction, this paper attempts to dispell apprehensions that the errors made when adapting television to the classroom may occur again with microcomputers. Examples of the failure of television to teach reading in the 1960s and 1970s are presented, and it is pointed out that television, a…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Rainery, Richard – 1984
One in a series of papers by the Rural Research Agency devoted to the study of telecommunications services and systems sponsored by the State of Alaska, this paper concentrates on the technology of television delivery and distribution to the citizens of the state. It most closely scrutinizes entertainment television, but much of its analysis is…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Commercial Television, Communications Satellites, Educational Television
Morehead State Univ., KY. Appalachian Adult Education Center. – 1975
The document is a handbook designed to aid program administrators in planning, managing, and assessing adult educational television (ETV), to assure adult viewers the maximum instructional/learning benefit possible. The handbook includes four types of information; (1) an introduction to the Appalachian Adult Education Center (AAEC) experience, (2)…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Broadcast Television
Hartzell, Karin M. – 1994
The Hypermedia Information System (HIS) is being developed under the auspices of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Aviation Medicine's (AAM) Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance (HFAM) research program. The goal of the hypermedia project is to create new tools and methods for aviation-related information storage and retrieval.…
Descriptors: Aviation Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Hypermedia, Information Retrieval
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1987
This document consists of abstracts for two papers which discussed television audience research and public policy. The first, "News Audience Research and an Informed Electorate" (Mark Levy), examined more than a dozen studies over the past 20 years concerning the flow of news and information to the public. None of these studies found…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Citizenship Education, Literature Reviews, News Reporting
DeKoff, Mildred – 1982
This paper reviews the literature on the habits and preferences of American adults in four areas: reading, library use, television viewing, and adult learning. Within these areas, research results are reported for: (1) the demographic characteristics of readers and nonreaders, the reasons given for reading, time spent reading, the places where…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Adults, Literature Reviews
Hafner, Janet R.; And Others – 1978
Palomar College produced an alternative resource for staff development in the form of a video tape library of demonstration ESL/ABE classroom strategies. The series of 15 tapes offers an inexpensive and easily duplicated means of viewing a variety of methods, an opportunity to select certain methods for repeated viewing, and the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Basic Skills, Demonstration Programs
Shakespear, Mala – 2000
Surrounded by the beauty of southern Utah and panoramic views of three states, filigrees of colorful stones that erosion has shaped into a spectacular array of spires, fins, and pinnacles called "hoodoos" remind tourist viewers of church steeples, Gothic spires, castle walls, animals, and even people. In this lesson students explore why…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Geography, Geology, Heritage Education
Foote, Joe S.; Rimmer, Tony – 1982
On the premise that a gap has developed between the newsworthiness of the national political party conventions and the television network resources allocated to cover them, the three major networks' coverage of the 1980 Democratic and Republican national conventions was analyzed to document patterns that influence the networks' portrayal of party…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Meetings, News Reporting, Politics
Bourne, Carole – 1986
This document presents the results of a two-year study of a British Broadcasting Company children's news program which examined the goals and routines of the programmers, the program content, and audience response. Observations were made of program routines, the content was analyzed, and responses to the programs were obtained during informal,…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Childrens Television, Concept Formation, Content Analysis
King, Margaret J. – 1989
Education continues to operate as an enclave of elite culture and is battling for interest and respect with the mass media, technology, and the popular arts. These cultures must be brought together. Using the creative ideas generated by theme parks is an effective method of importing popular culture into the schools. Theme parks provide a total…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Cultural Centers, Educational Innovation, Educational Parks
TADROS, SAMY S. – 1960
A SURVEY MADE OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH RELATED TO TELEVISION CONTENT AND EFFECTS ON ADULTS TURNED UP 39 PERTINENT STUDIES WHICH WERE ANALYZED USING FIVE CRITERIA OF ADULT MATURITY, GLEANED FROM THE LITERATURE. OPINIONS OF 44 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ADULT EDUCATORS REGARDING PROBLEM AREAS NEEDING RESEARCH WERE SOLICITED. IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT TELEVISION…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Citizenship Responsibility, Commercial Television
Kaltenbach, M.; Preiss, B. – 1994
A computer system, IconiCase, is currently being developed to assist users in the task of classifying and memorizing medical cases. The system uses assemblies of icons, called Concept Graphics (CG), as pointers to medical cases, leading to a form of electronic document delivery in which information is accessed at various levels, with a gradual…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Active Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics
Johnston, Jerome; And Others – 1994
Channel One is a daily 12-minute news broadcast for schoolwide rebroadcast to grades 6 through 12. Three years of independent research have tracked its impact on schools and students. This document contains an executive summary and final report that discusses the research findings, focusing on the research during the 1992-93 school year. At that…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Broadcast Journalism, Comparative Analysis, Current Events
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