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

French Recordings New recording ideas come into the market each year and the library of available instructional materials continues to expand. One of the brightest ideas of many years is that represented by Dr. Rutii Komfeld in her new Teaching Audiab and Visuals. Her series of a half-dozen French recordings and associated filmstrips is a delight and will find a definite need in a great many school language situations. It is important that the titles Dr. Komfeld offers are secondary to the techniques she employs. To list the titles is easy, but to attempt to describe the thoroughness of her approach is considerably more difficult. There is constancy as well as consistency involved. In each packet Dr. Komfeld supplies a single 12 inch 33.3 rpm microgroove record plus a colored filmstrip. The audio material is related to the visual, but only through the joint use of both can full comprehension be secured. Neither is truly independent of the other, and yet each can be used separately after the material is introduced to the class. Each recording (these are also available on dual track tapes at 7.5 ips, too) describes in French the scenes portrayed on the screen. The first use of the material is joint. There is a brief presentation of specific information. It is recorded and designed to illustrate and be illustrated by the filmstrip. Male and female voices are ised, and the French is impeccable. The same data is presented more apidly, for practice in aural comprehension. The record now offers a series of questions— and then opporninity for response to the questions, finally, there is a dictation exercise based on the material originally presented. Is the visual data essential? Perhaps not, but certainly the learning can be both more complete and more rapid with it. Can the teacher do the job the record does? Perhaps, but her presentation is not likely to approach the quality of the recording. Can this be used by individuals studying alone? Of course, and it can be used for make-up of lessons missed and for review, too. Groups can use the material. It can be presented through language laboratory installations and to classroom groups who have never seen or heard of laboratory installation. It is versatile in application. Once the student has heard the original recording he can be called on to deliver orally a commentary on the pictures as they are flashed on the screen. There are six titles in the series. Three are intended for beginning students (or more advanced elementary school students) and three are intended for second year secondary school students. For information write to Teaching Audials and Visuals at 250 West 57th Street, New York, N. Y. Don't put that pen down! Write, too, to Carillon Records at 202 Davenport Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut, for information about the Yale Series of Recorded Poets previously mentioned, and to Audio Lingual Digest at 29 Marble Avenue, PleasantviUe, New York, for information about a remarkable new idea in records for instruction. The name is descriptive. The Audio Lingual Digest (available in both French and Spanish) is a recorded publication! There are two recordings involved in each issue. First there is /Jeuiia CARDALOG® Record Reviews on Cards Box 1771— Albany 1, New York D Please enter. -1 year subscription(s) to Audio CARDALOG, including the FREE Audio CARDALOG Di rectory of Record Producers. 400 cards-10 issues-$25.00 n Please send us full information about Audio CARDALOG. Name Organization or School Address Oty and State Fre* offer »plr» September IS, 1961. Price for Directory SS.OO tliereafter to subscribers. YOUR 35mm PROJECTOR WILL Z-O-O-M MIGRGSGOPE SLIDES! ■ New fl.5 Elgeet Zoom Microtar Attachment converts your projector tor continuously variable magnification of slides ■ Focus at any magnification-zoom image stays sharp ■ Zoom magnification dramatizes the projected image for lectures, demonstrations ■ True, variable iris controls field size for concentration of interest on select areas ■ Positive lock spring device secures slide ■ Adapters fit unit to most popular 35mm slide projectors; unit removes instantly for normal projector use ■ Complete Elgeet Zoom Microtar Attach: ment— w^ith appropriate adapter for your projector-$64.50 When ordering, please specify make and model of projector you will be adapting. For further details or for orders, write to: DEPT. es-4. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMEf^T DIVISION Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — April, 1961 Elgeet Optical Co. 838 Smith Street, Rochester, N. Y. 183