NAEB Newsletter (February 1, 1965)

have been announced: Richard Forsythe, Purdue University, research. Daniel Logan, Wayne State University, community service. Robert Smith, Western Michigan University, and Bernard Russi, Marietta University, instruction. Convention Talks Available Photocopies of the following presentations from the 1964 NAEB convention may be obtained from the publications of¬ fice for 10c a page to cover duplication and postage; payment must accompany order. These will not be published in the NAEB Journal. (Tapes of these and most other sessions of the convention are available from NERN for $5 a half hour; write to NERN, Urbana office, for order blanks and infor¬ mation.) 1. Educational Broadcasting and the FCC. Mclvor Park¬ er’s presentation—9 pages. Summaries of Hyman Goldin and Samuel Saady remarks and of question-and-answer period, by Lawrence Frymire, session recorder—2 pages. 2. Educational Broadcasting and the NDEA. Summary of session by Recorder Coy Ludwig—6 pages. 3. Educational Broadcasting and the ETV Facilities Act. Presentations of Raymond Stanley, William Smith, Ian Wheel¬ er—14 pages. Summary of question-and-answer period by Re¬ corder Ruane Hill—2 pages. 4. Engineering session. Review and analysis of NAEB report, “Technical Standards for Television Transmission,” by Ron Stewart—*8 pages. UHF allocation plans, by Oscar Reed —51 pages. Educational FM allocations, by Roger Peterson- 12 pages. 5. Research session. “New Dimensions in ETV: Juvenile Delinquency,” by Richard I. Evans—10 pages. 6. Educational Broadcasting Around the World. Sum¬ mary of Burton Paulu’s remarks on “A Survey of Interna¬ tional Broadcasting,” by Mrs. Gertrude Hoffsten, session re¬ corder—1 page. Presentation on the EBU by William G. Har¬ ley—5 pages. Hawaii Studies ETV ETV in Hawaii was the subject of the sixth annual confer¬ ence of the Hawaii Audio Visual Association January 22-23 at the University of Hawaii. Vernon Bronson, executive di¬ rector of the NAEB Individual Member Division, keynoted the meeting, speaking on ETV in the U. S. Other speakers and subjects were Harold Wigren, NEA ETV consultant, on ETV and the teacher; A.E.P. Wall, edi¬ tor Honolulu Sunday Star Bulletin and chairman of the gov¬ ernor’s ETV advisory committee, presenting Hawaii’s plans for ETV; Wesley Sakai, of the state education department, on utilization; Ronald Bornstein, TV production specialis University of Hawaii, on ETV production; and Howard Fos¬ ter, graphics supervisor, state education department, on closed- circuit TV in the classroom. If You Read Dutch . . . and would like to review for the NAEB a book by D. A. deKorte, Televisie bij onderwijs en opleiding, please write to the publications office, NAEB, Urbana. NAEBers Buy Over 350 First-Timer Manuals Following an announcement in the November Newsletter, readers have bought over 350 copies of William E. Parke’s simple manual for first-timers on TV. Copies of the 15-page mimeographed “Your Appearance on TV” are obtainable from the NAEB publications office for 50c each for duplication and postage (25c for orders of six or more mailed to one ad¬ dress at one time). NAEB-NER Stations Win Awards NER stations won three out of five top places in the first Armstrong Awards for excellence in FM broadcasting. The stations and their winning categories are W t RVR, New York, public and community service; WFBE, Flint, Mich., news; and WUHY, Philadelphia, education. These stations and WUOM, University of Michigan, also won certificates of merit—WUOM for music, WRVR for music and education, WFBE for education, and WUHY for music. Syracuse Seeks Ideal Teacher The “ideal teacher” research project at Syracuse University entered its third year in January. Lawrence Myers, Jr., chair¬ man of the TV-radio center, directs the program under spon¬ sorship of HEW. In the program, lectures are filmed and shown on CCTV. Before the lecture, students indicate their concepts of the “ideal teacher” and also their own feelings or emotions. After the lecture, the students again evaluate their feelings and rate the teacher they have just seen. The two sets of evaluations are correlated. Industrial Subjects on TV? Bernard Dutton is attempting to establish the feasibility of using TV for instruction in industrial education subjects in the public schools. He would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of work which has been done in presenting such matter on TV. He is particularly interested in specific in¬ formation about program format, effectiveness of presenta¬ tions, techniques used to best present the material, and ad¬ vantages and disadvantages of such presentations. Write to him at 22611 Barbacoa Drive, Saugus, California. Needs Info on Films Richard C. Burke is compiling a 'list of films which could be used in teaching various aspects of radio and television. He would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of such films—or of such a compilation which already exists. Write to him at: Department of Radio and Television, Indiana Uni¬ versity, Bloomington, Indiana 47405. ABU Inaugurated The Asian Broadcasting Union made its formal start as an international organization of broadcasters with its first meet¬ ing, in Sydney, Australia, in November. Yoshinori Maeda, president of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation, was named ABU’s first president. Some 200 persons attended the meet¬ ing, at which resolutions were adopted to expand staff train¬ ing institutions, promote program exchanges, establish a prize for radio rural programs and TV documentaries, and promote technical cooperation among member organizations. The as¬ sembly will meet again in Tokyo in October, 1965. USIA Happy with English Series USIA personnel have reported good results with two English language series which NAEB staffers helped them to obtain. Time and Tune in English Speech was broadcast over 125 stations of NHK’s educational network last summer, with apparent success. It is currently being broadcast to Russia, NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication issued by the Na¬ tional Association of Educational Broadcasters, I 19 Gregory Hall, Urbana, III. 61803. $5.00 a year. Editor: Betty McKenzie. Editorial assistant: Skip Robinson. Phone 333-0580. Area Code 217. TWX 217-344-0970. 2 NEWSLETTER