Educational screen & audio-visual guide (c1956-1971])

oA fwuMe News from the Department of Audio -Visual Instruction, National Education Assn, A-V Survey on the Way A comprehensive survey of the status and progress of audio-visual education in school systems of the United States is being undertaken cooperatively by the Department of Audio-Visual Instruction and the Division of Research of the National Education Association. Results of the study are expected to be published in the late spring of 1955. Plans now call for questionnaires to be mailed to representative schools and school systems throughout the nation during March of 1954. A preliminary questionnaire to determine what data should be collected has been sent to the following groups: representative D.WI members, including directors of city, county, and rural audio-visual education programs, persons interested in research and professional education in the audio-visual field, and the Chief State School AudioVisual Officers. No comprehensive research study has been made on a national scale in this field by the NEA since 1946, when the NEA Research Division published a bulletin entitled, "Audio Visual Education in City School Systems," according to Frank W. Hubbard, Director of the NEA Research Division. 1954 Convention News Remember, DAVI meets March 2-5, 1954, at the Hotel Morrison in Chicago. Plan now to meet old friends there, make new friends there, and pick up a wealth of ideasl Watch for an announcement about program features in your mail and look for a complete outline of the program in the February EdScreen. Here are a few of the valuable concurrent sessions which are offered as a part of the program in addition to the general sessions already announced and a host of demonstrations and practical problems meetings: The Instructional Materials Concept in Public School Programs, Communications Concept in College and University Programs, Readability: Its Application to Audio-Visual Publications and Catalogs, Forefront Thinking in Pre and In-Service Teacher Education, The by J. J. Mcpherson Executive Secretary, DAVI 1201 16th St., NW, Washington 6, D. C. .^udio-Visual Director's Responsibility for Educational Television, The International Role of Audio-Visual Specialists, Vitalizing State Associations, Preparation of Audio-Visual Instructional Materials Specialists, Research in Audio-Visual — What Are Today's Greatest Needs? Also remember that DAVI is participating in the American Association of School Administrators Convention at .Atlantic City, February 13 18, 1954, and in the Convention of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, March 7-12, 1954, at Los Angeles. Right Around Home One of the real pleasures of the D.WI office is the opportunity to meet the grand people who drop by to say hello when they are in town. Here are some folks who have been by in the last couple of months: Mitoji Nishimoto, Professor of Education for the International Christian University at Tokyo, stopped by on his trip to various audio-visual centers in the U. S. Mr. Nishimoto has recently completed over twenty years of work in educational radio. Fridolin Schmid, Director of the Institute for Film and Slides in Munich, Germany. Director Schmid's Institute is the primary source for educational films and slides in all of western Germany. Howard B. Allen, Director of Audio Visual Services for West Virginia Uni versity. Hf)ward has been a loyal DA\ supporter since the memory of ma runneth not to the contrary and always a welcome and helpful visito David Strom, who is hard at work i his position with the Jam Handy O ganization. Tom Batson of the D. C. Publ: Schools. Tom is preparing some of th art work for our buildings brochure Hal Fisher, sales manager for Com CO Corporation, also dropped by see our new DAVI offices. Here \\ have a view of him using the phone ii our semi-private facilities. DAVI Film First The new DAVI film, Audio-Visua School Service Plan, tan now be bor rowed at no charge from the nationa office and prints will soon be availablf in a number of the states. This seven minute black and white sound fill was designed for use with groups teachers and school administrators. . principal purpose is to show how individual school can benefit from subscription to the D.'WI School Ser ice Plan, which includes a year's su scription to Educational Screen an all other service publications. If you are interested in havii DAVI materials come into every schc in the system or systems with whi( you are working, arrange to have th brief film shown at a meeting of yoi teachers, school administrators, i audio-visual coordinators. It's the be explanation we have yet been able I prepare telling how D.WI can hel strengthen a school program — and it'; 8 Educational Screen