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

The reader's right Send letters to EdSCREEN & AVGUIDE, 2000 Lincoln Pork Weit, Chicago 14 School Design for AV ". . . We are in the process of making plans for a new school of 1000. I am trying to sell the idea of making each classroom suitable for A-V materials. Our present authorities think one or two audio-visual rooms are L'nough. Have you some book or magazine references that would help me? Would you be kind enough to write a letter to me giving your recommendations? Our school will be a one-story rambler type and our architects are planning skylight lighting in the classrooms plus usual windows." Sister M. Bernardine St. Margaret's Academy 1301 Linden Avenue Minneapolis 3, Minn. ". . . in replying, I am responding not only as Editor . . . but from my more than twenty-five years experience as responsible head of the audiovisual program in the Rochester, New York, public schools. Let me tell you first that in a new high school we are building in Rochester, every one of the eighty-six classrooms is being equipped with darkening facilities so that pictures of all kinds may be projected. I am enclosing a copy of the audiovisual committee report that justified this kind of facility for this up-to-date school. The most telling argument in favor of equipping each room was economy. We figured it this way. If we were to have separate audiovisual rooms, we ivould need at least four. With construction, costs being what they are, it would cost more than $160,000 to build four classrooms. We figured that we could equip all rooms for audiovisual purposes for much less than fifty thousand dollars and thus save a considerable amount of money and at the same time provide much better facilities for instruction. Our Board of Education and school administration saw the sense in taking that course. I have touched upon this subject of equipping classrooms for audiovisual purposes in several editorials in Educational Screen magazine. If you have back copies available, you may wish to refer to the editorials in the June 1958 issue, and in the April 1956, February 1955, and November 1954 issues. If you xoant your new school to be a school in which projected pictures can be used effectively in classroom instruction, you must use every persuasive power you have to prevent the architects from daylighting your classrooms to the extent that audiovisual learning cannot take place. That ivould be an educational tragedy, and already too many schools have been built that are extremely limited in their effectiveness because of the failure of architects to understand the way learning takes place." — Paul C. Reed. Viopticon Slides, Anyone? The DAVI audiovisual archives collection needs examples of the lightweight, paperbound glass slides used in the Victor "Viopticon," an important link in the evolution of the present 2x2. Any offers? Wm. F. Kruse, Archivist, Ingleside, 111. "For the past year or so I have been trying to get along without a subscription to 'The Leading AV Magazine.' I find it not so easy as I had anticipated. Whenever I revise my classified list of articles pertaining to the use of AV aids (twice a year), I must go to the library. I have nothing against libraries — but I prefer to sit at my own desk and read my own magazines and mark them up or cut them up, or, at least, have them available on ray own bookshelf. "Then, when the September issue came out with FREE PUBLICITY announcing my little manual AudioVisual Equipment Operation . . . the least I can do to show my appreciation is to reinstate my subscription. "But I need the magazine anyway. I need the annual Blue Book issue. Can you start my subscription with the September issue?" — Frank F. Gorow 616 Princeton Circle West Fullerton, California "R. A. Frye's excellent description of our CREATIVITY film in the October issue of Educational Screen stirred up such an interest throughout the country that capacity bookings were made through February." — James E. Alford, Acting Chief of Distribution Motion Pitliire Service, U. S. Department of .Agriculture Washington, D. C. This was in response to rec|uest for a screening before the Chicago Film Council. Arrangements have been made to show a new print at the Council's January 16th meeting. there's no other recording tape like Irish FERRO-SHEEN' exclusive irish process for producing the smoothest possible tape surface [irish FERRO-SHEEN' tape\ ^ can't sand down your magnetic ^ heads or shed gummy oxide powder into your machine Why risk the gradual deterioration of your precious tape recorder when ultra-safe irisli FERRO-SHEEN costs no more than ordinary tape? i 1 ORRadio Industries, Inc. gj.j Audio-Visual Department Shamrock Circle, Opelika, Alabama Kindly send me free of charge and without any obligation the item(s) I have checked: D Complete, detailed chart of playing times for various types of tape in different reel sizes at all standard tape speeds. n "Tape It Off the Air"-the brochure that explains the correct way of tape recording radio and TV broadcasts. Nam« Potitlon , SchooL Street Address. City .Jtna. -SUtL. EdScreen & AV Guide — January, 1959