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

News about people, organizations, events Have you heard ? Progress in TV Teaching When school opened in September, TV was used to implement instruction for thousands of pupils in at least a score of cities, clearly indicating the expanding role of television in formal education, according to George L. Hall, director of development for the Educational Television and Radio Center. About 15 of the non-commercial educational TV stations affiliated with the Center are broadcasting lessons directly into schools, the official noted, and at least 10 school systems are teaching by especially installed closed circuit TV facilities in their own buildings. In all cases. Hall said, the television camera is being used to aid teachers faced with larger classes and a shortage of facilities. At the same time, quality instruction is being brought to pupils by putting top teachers before the cameras, he added. Educational station WQED in Pittsburgh, for example, is for the third consecutive year carrying on classroom teaching activities in selected Pittsburgh schools. Teacliers and pupils in New Orleans are getting TV help for the first time. One of the newest stations in the ETV network is broadcasting instructional programs into 103 of the city's schools. Other noncommercial stations which are aiding in classroom instruction in their respective communities include those located in Chapel Hill, N. C; Chicago; Cincinnati; Detroit; East Lansing; Houston, Tex.; Lincoln, Nebr.; Memphis; Miami; ihe three stations in .Alabama, located in Munford, Birmingham and Andalusia; New Orleans; Oklahoma City; Seattle; St. Louis. Whole school systems are connected for TV teaching on an experimental basis in North Carolina and Virginia as a result of grants for television instruction given last year by the Fund for .\<ivan(enicnt of Education. The Fund, iioping to determine the full possibilities of TV as a tool of education, is supporting both closed and open circuit TV teaching projects in several cities, among them .Atlanta, Cincinnati, Detroit, Miami, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, and Witchita. Nebraska and Oklahoma are involved in state-wide experiments in teaching by television. One of the most well-known TV projects, that being conducted in the Hagerstown, Md., public schools, enters its second phase this year. Ampro-SVE Sales Via Graflex A joint announcement by Graflex, Inc. and the Society for Visual Education, Inc., advises that effective January 1st Graflex "will assume the marketing of all ,\mpro-SVE audio-visual equipment." Authorized dealers who have been handling the still and motion picture projectors, tape recorders and other items in the Ampro-SVE lines will continue to do so, with the added advantage of reduced transportation costs from the nearest Graflex Branch. H. A. Schumacher, Graflex vice-president, will be in charge of sales. SVE will concentrate solely on the production and sale of filmstrips, through its field staff and its dealer representatives. The SVE headquarters remains at 1345 Diversey Parkway, Chicago 14, III. The Graflex headquarters address is Rochester 8, N.Y. "Films in Canada 1958" This will be the theme of the Conference on Films to be held in Toronto, January 22nd and 23rd. 1958. in the Unitarian Church, St. Clair .Avenue, Toronto. This will be the first Conference of its kind in Canada, and will be sponsored by the Canadian Film Institute in co-operation with ten other Film and Education organizations. Erik Barneuw, Director of the Cen ter of Mass Communication of Columbia University, will give the key-note address on "Film To-dav." Glen Burch, of the Ford Foundation for .Adult Education will speak on "Films and Adult Education." .A feature of the session will be a discussion of "What's wrong with our films?" by distinguished Canadian representatives of film-makers, film-spohsors and film-users, under the chairmanship of Graeme Eraser, Vicepresident of Crawley Films Limited, Ottawa. Degrees at Indiana U. There are over one hundred graduate students in residence who are taking a major emphasis toward the master's degree or a minor toward the doctor's degree. Of these, 42 are graduate assistants. Twenty-seven of the 42 are working on a master's de gree and 15 on a doctor's degree. The last degrees were received from 34 different colleges and universities, from 14 different states and four foreign countries. The state of Indiana led with 8, followed by 6 from Illinois. 5 from New York, 4 from Ohio, and '^ from both Tennessee and Alabama. Indiana University Audio-Visual Center Graduate Assistants with Directors'' 1st Semester 1957-58 1st Row: Larson', Patron, Gonce, Gibert, Conzon, Kaufman, Miller, Boone, Townsend, Rugg'; 2nd Row: Howell, Jackson, Rietberg, Ritchie, O'Connor, Alcorn, Sayed, Davis, Stamper; 3rd Row: Smith, Weisgerber, Scholl, Armstrong, Kopost, Bordwell, Curl, R. Brown, McMurtrie, Simmons; 4th Row: P. Mitchell, Skinner, Uelsman, Pfoff, 6. Mitchell, Holloway, Mollis, L. Brown, Weber, Duberstein, Cobun. Absent: leno, Landsaw, Maesaka. 10 EdScreen & AV Guide — Januarv, 1958