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

Ne^vs people organizations events Educational TV Featured At Italian Exposition Educational television is taking a starring role in the official United States Exhibition now under way in Turin, Italy. Several million Europeans — educators, students, tourists, industrialists , worker s— are seeing American TV and other electronic devices in action as they visit "Italia '61," the Italian Centenary Exposition which celebrates the 100th birthday of the modern Italian nation. The exposition opened May 6 and will run through Oct. 31. The U. S. Exhibition, planned for months in advance by a team of specialists from the U. S. Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Fairs, concentrates on America's newest communications techniques. One of the top attractions is a model classroom, set up to illustrate educational television and other new teaching devices. Across an aisle from the classroom is a complete educational television studio, designed and equipped by Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc. D. P. Ely Of Syracuse U. To Head Up AV Study Dr. Donald P. Ely, director of the AudioVisual Center at Syracuse University, has been selected chairman of a national commission on definition and terminology of the audiovisual field. The commission will operate as an aspect of the Technological Development Project of the National Education Association. Funds have been granted through the National Defense Education Act for completion of the study. Culmination of the commission's activity will be the publication of a monograph which will define the field and establish its terminology. Intioduction of educational television, teaching machines and programmed learning, language laboratories, and other areas of instructional technolcgy have created the need for a definition of the field and the establishment of terminology which will be accepted and used on a national and international level. Serving with Dr. Ely will be Dr. Edgar Dale, professor of education, The Ohio State University; Dr. George Gerbner, associate professor. Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois; Dr. Henry Bern, associate professor of education, and Dr. James Q. Knowlton, assist.mt professor of education. University of Indiana; and Dr. Samuel Cohen, adminishative assistant, Hewlett Public Schools (N. Y.). Various consultants will serve on the commission from time to time. New AV Guide For Foreign Language Teachers Bertha Landers, for many years in the library system of Dallas and later head of the audiovisual department of the Kansas City (Mo.) Public Library, is bringing out a Foreign Language Audio-Visual Guide, a fully annotated aid for foreign language teachers in the selection of films, filmstrips, recordings, tapes and various other audiovisual materials. The Guide has been prepared in consultation with national foreign lan The College of New Roehelle (N.Y.) has a language laboratory which is a two-part system including a recording studio as well as the language lab itself. The unit was built by Educational Equipment division of Edwards Co., Inc. guage associations, the United State; Department of Health, Education anc Welfare, the U. S. Office of Educa tion, and a select committee of Ian guage teachers. It synopses audio visual aids in twelve languagesArabic, Chinese, French, German Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Span ish, with each language indexed tc indicate content, purpose and grad« level of teaching aid. The descriptive material is divided into grammar anc vocabulary, conversational and eul tural enrichment. The new volume provides a descriptive source guide to more than 2,0()( language films, filmstrips, recording; and tapes, and will be revised annually, it is said. Cathedral Films' Founder Marks Silver Anniversary Clergyman Dr. James K. Friedrich founder and president of Cathedra Films, Inc., observed in June the 2-5tl anniversary of his ordination to the ministry. Religious audiovisual materials produced by Cathedral are now seen by over .5 million young people every week in Sunday schools. In addi Ur. Iriedrich tion to approximately 2.50 films pro duced for church use of this type, thi company has also brought out twc films produced for the theatre. Colorado AV Association Holds "Retreat" In May The Colorado Audio-N'isual Associa | tion frankly called its May 19-21 meet i ing at the Colorado State Colleg j cabins in Estes Park a "retreat." Am the 1962 state AV meeting will be heL at Greeley in conjunction \\'ith the mid year conference on education becaus "it was felt by the members assemble' that this was a well established meet ing and provided an opportunity fc many to attend who otherwise migf not be able to." The AV luncehon £ next year's conference will be arrange^ with no special program so that th membership can be encouraged "t join in the other programs this year; Efforts will be made to build stroni Colorado attendance at D.WE's Kai sas Citv convention next spring. The CAVA officers for 1961-19© (Cantiniied on tiext page) 386 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide — August, 196