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Page 72 The Educational Screen Two Important Audio-Visual Education Meetings Northern Ohio Visual Aids Conference THE first Visual Aids Conference ever held in northern Ohio will include addresses by Frank J. Lausche, Mayor of Cleveland. School Sui)erintendent Charles H. Lake, and experts from the Ohio area and elsewhere in the country. The conference will meet April 3 and 4 in Hotel Hollenden, Cleveland, for a series of practical demonstrations of the latest methods of teaching with modern visual aids. The notably fine program, nearly completed, is printed below. Director M. R. Klein, of the Educational Museum of the Cleveland Public Schools, is general chairman of the Conference. He has arranged also an exhibit of new equipment and sup])lies. The committee on arrangements hopes to make the conference an annual aflfair, in cooperation with Zones HI and IV of the Department of Visual In.struction of the National Education Association. .Attendance is cordially invited from all States within war-time travel radius. THE FIRST NORTHERN OHIO VISUAL AIDS CONFERENCE In Co-operation with The Department of Visual Instruction (Zones III & IV) National Education Association Monday and Tuesday, April 3rd and 4tli, 1944 Hotel Hollenden Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio PROGRAM FIRST SES.SION, Monday .Afternoon 2:00 P.M. Max R. Klein, Genera! Chairman Visual .Aids in a Children's Museum (Illustrated) Margaret M. Brayton, Curator, Children's Museum. Detroit, Michigan Pupil-made Slides as an Aid to Integrating .Activities in Elementary Education (Illustrated) Mrs. Edna Moore Skelly, Principal. Standard School, Cleveland Silent Films as an .Aid in Teaching Elementary School Pupils Agnes McFadden, Principal, Union and Tod Schools, Cleveland The Art Museum Comes to the School (Illustrated) Dr. Thomas Munro, Curator of F^ducation, Cleveland Museum of Art Visual Aids of a Progressive Zoo, (Illustrated) Fletcher A. Reynolds, Director, Cleveland Zoo SECOND SESSION, Monday 8:00 P. M. Greetings — Hon. I'rank M. Lausche, Mayor, City of Cleveland ; Charles H. Lake, Superintendent, Cleveland Puhlic Schools ; Mrs. Camilla Best, President, Department of Visual Instruction, N.E.A. ; Joseph F. Landis, President, American Federation of Teachers. Address — (By a Representative of tlic Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, New York) Your Film and Slide E.xchange in Ohio B. A. Aughinbaugh, Supervisor, Film and Slide Exchange, Department of Education, Columbus, Ohio New Techniques of Visual Training in the Armed Forces Commander Patrick Murphy, Chief, Training Aids Section, United States Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. Teacher Training in Visual Education— When Do We Start? Dr. Edgar Dale, College of Education, The Ohio State University, Columbus THIRD SESSION, Tuesday 9:30 A. M. Visual Aids in Art .Activities (Illustrated) Alfred Howell. Directing Supervisor of Art, Cleveland Public Schools Through the Window Pane — A Robin's Spring Story (Colored Film with Music on Disc) Mrs. Warner Seely, Cleveland Heights Classroom Methods of Using Sound Films — A Demonstration Motion Picture Project Report Miss Helen Hardt Seaton, Executive Secretary, Motion Picture Project, American Council on Education. Motion Pictures in a Modern High School L. K. Meola, Coordinator of Visual Aids, John Hay High School, Cleveland Luncheon, Tuesday Noon, Coordinators of Visual -Aids in Schools and Guests FOURTH SESSION, Tuesday 2:00 P. M. \'isual Aids in Teaching Music Appreciation (Illustrated) Lillian L. Baldwin, Supervisor Music Appreciation. Cleveland Public Schools Practical Suggestions of Visual .Aids in an Elementary School ( Illustrated ) .Adela M. Losch, Principal Miles and Cranwood Schools, Cleveland Visual Aids for Industrial .Arts Education (Illustrated) Carl H. Hamburger, Supervisor Industrial Arts, Cleveland Public Schools .A School Produced Colored Film with Sound on Disc — A Guidance Project .Anthony L. Cope, John Hay High School, Cleveland FIFTH SESSION, Tuesday 8:00 P.M. A Filmstrip and Follow-up for a War Training Class Joseph A. Roenigk, Cleveland Trade School Microprojection for Biology Sterling O. Wilson, Collinwood High School, Cleveland The Use of Pictorial Material in a Progressive Church School Robert J. Holden, Director, First Unitarian Church School. Cleveland A Letter from the President of Zone II Dear Members and Friends of Zone II : Visual education is being utilized in all branches of our armed forces and i:i pre-induction courses. Many of the films and other aids of the government and much of the recent visual education material of other organizations are needed in our schools at this time. Therefore Zone II Department of Visual Instruction has planned' this meeting in Visual Education Today and Tomorrozv, to be held concurrently with the Association of School Administrators in the Hotel New Yorker, February 23, at three thirty o'clock. At that time some of the latest phases and materials in visual education for the schools will be discussed and shown. Plan to attend this meeting and invite your friends also. Come and renew friendships, meet other folks interested in visual education in the schools, and enjoy an interchange of ideas. (Signed) E. Winifred Crawford Officers of Zone II— D. V. I. President — Dr. E. Winifred Crawford, Board of Education, Montclair, N. J. 1st Vice President — Mr. H. A. Humphreys 2nd Vice President — Dr. Dean F. McClusky Secretary-Treasurer — Mr. James S. Kinder Officers of Metropolitan New York Branch President — Dr. Lucile Allard Executive Secretary — Mrs. Lena Hessberg Recording Secretary — Mrs. E. L. Berg Treasurer — Mr. Don Carlos Ellis Chairman, Executive Committee— Rita Hochheimer.