Suggests how high school English teachers can monitor, evaluate, direct, and expand the viewing experiences of their students. (DD)

Outlines the structural characteristics of transactions which substitute video linkage for face-to-face communication, including time, space, visual conventions, and participant behavior. Suggests why this form of electronic interconnection will probably continue to grow in use and complexity. (JMF)

"TV Talk", which has regularly appeared in Teacher over the past three years, reports on the need for improving children's television, on parent and community action and, most important, on ideas from teachers--activities based on commercial television programs, activities that have been used successfully with students. Here is an index to the…

A collection of brief essays on ways teachers can use commercial television to stimulate reading, science, math, social studies and language arts curriculum. (SB)

This teachers guide provides teaching suggestions before viewing, a synopsis, and topics for further exploration. The horrors of the Holocust are surveyed and compared to other episodes of violence, past and present. (STS)

States that the role of the Federal Communications Commission should be to provide direction and encouragement for the television networks to adopt self-regulatory reforms, rather than to provide strict regulation itself. The "family viewing" plan is a result of the networks' attempts at self-regulation. (Editor/RK)

Examines "The Waltons" television series in terms of the questions about family relations and industrial society it raises in the minds of the viewing auidence. (MH)

A suggested solution to the copyright problem would allow producers and/or networks a limited tax write-off in exchange for the schools' rights to videocopy programs. (Author/IRT)

Article discusses two opposing models that have been developed to explain what happens when a child is exposed to violence. (GB)

Article is a multidisciplinary demonstration lesson that creates learning situations using a popular television show as a stimulus. (GB)

Discuses the pervasiveness of television viewing and some resulting implications for society. Presents annotated lists of multimedia resource materials about television. (TO)

Based on speech given before the Ohio Association of Broadcasters Convention (Dayton, May, 1969).

Challenges television research which presents an overly critical view of the effects of television viewing on its audience. (JJD)