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Miscellaneous Notes 197 C H. Garwood, Associate Superintend- of Schools, Pittsburgh, Pa. Visual Instruction Equipment and v to Administer It Efficiently. By Dud- Grant Hays, Director of Visual In- ction, Public Schools, Chicago, 111. All papers to be fifteen minutes in 'th.) Some slides and films may be shown at end of the regular program.) he present officers of the Visual Edu- lon Section are as follows: 'resident, L. N. Hines, President In- na State Normal Schools, Terre Haute Muncie, Ind. ice-President, J. H. Beveridge, Super- ndent of Schools, Omaha, Neb. ecretary, Charles F. Pye, Secretary ua State Teachers' Association, Des ines, Iowa. AHE "Outline of Visual Method as Applied to the Teaching of South - America" is a recent publication by Visual Instruction Division of the liversity of the State of New York. achers seriously interested in visual thods should write to Albany for a Fhis bulletin is far more than a mere alogue of the South American slides New York State's great collection. It a manual of procedure for slide-in- uction invaluable to the teacher lether experienced in visual aids or not. le first ten pages constitute an intro- ction to visual method which is exceed- ?ly suggestive, based as it is on years research by the Visual Instruction Di- ion under the direction of A. W. >rams, Chief of the Division. The thirty d pages remaining give selections of ies, grouped under numerous topics, th discussion under each, constituting ti outline of study with some teaching ints of particular pictures and illustra- ns of procedure." rhe number of New York State iooIs equipping themselves with stere- ticons so as to take advantage of this luable service is steadily growing. rHE University of Tennessee, at its summer session, will offer a course on "Motion Pictures in Education" nducted by Miss Laura Thornburgh. Besides having taken all the courses of- fered at Columbia University in this field, Miss Thornburgh has had much experi- ence in scenario writing and film editing, both with the Department of Agriculture at Washington and in the commercial field. An extensive course of lectures is planned, covering many phases of the subject, together with round table dis- cussions of when, where, and how motion pictures should be used. Numerous edu- cational films will be examined, studied and criticized. "This is an age of special- ization and, as the motion picture is the latest arrival in the Visual Instruction family, it is to receive practically the entire attention of those taking the course." ii A COURSE in Visual Instruction" f\ is offered at the University of •*■ *■ Kansas for the present summer session, meeting daily, under the charge of Professor Joseph J. Weber of the de- partment of Education. The prospectus states that "the central aim in visual in- struction should be the common-sense adaptation of visual aids to the purposes of the school." The course is outlined as follows: I The Psychology of Visual Aids (a) primary sources of knowl- edge, (b) visual sensation, perception, and imagery, (c) comprehension, retention, etc., (d) standards for evaluating vis- ual aids, (e) the word-picture balance, (f) emotional effects, (g) moral value, etc. II Types and their Sources (a) diagrams, (b) sketches, (c) photographs, (d) stereographs, (e) lantern slides, (f) moving pictures, (g) models, (h) museum exhibits; and where to get these. III Administrative Problems (a) booking, (b) renting, (c) purchasing, (d) circulating visual aids.