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SCIENCE SLIDE FIOIS MADE BY TEACHERS FOB TEACHERS BIOLOGY PHYSICS MICHOBIOLOGY GENERAL SCIENCE CHEMISTRY How lo Study — Pencil Techniques VISUAL SCIENCES, sftE Sufftrn, Niw Yarfc School-Made Motion Pictures As a special service to its readers. Educational Screen offers, upon request, a mimeographed list of school-made motion pictures, compiled by David Schneider, Evander Childs High School, New York City. To obtain a copy of the list, write to the Service Department, Educational Screen, 64 E. Lake St,, Chicago I, Illinois, and enclose lOc in stamps or coins to cover the cost of handling. porting the number of recording machines needed, schools indicate a four to one preference for magnetic recorders over disc recorders. It is obvious that schoolmen generally consider tape recorders more valuable than wire recorders because, although about the same number of tape and wire machines was reported as being in use, the needs expressed for tape recorders outnumber the demand for wire recorders by almost two to one. In this respect, disc recorders run a poor third, the demand for them being less than one fourth of that for magnetic machines. The information on dual-function machines and multi-function machines is no less revealing. The radio-phonograph, a school standby for many years, is losing popularity. The demand is for about one third of the number reported as being in use while the demand for tape recorders is twice the existing supply. Schoolmen are recognizing that dual-function machines are cumbersome compromises that can be used for only one purpose at a time. Siirilarly. combination phonographrecorders, which have not been acquired by a great many schools, are wanted by fewer than a sixth of those participating in the survey. The only multi-function machine popular with schools is the central sound system — an expensive device that serves a real educational function under competent supervision. Radio workshop equipment of various types evidently will be needed in a number of schools. This mirrors the expansion of courses in radio practice that arc becoming part of the English curriculum in many parts of the country. .According to the USOE-RM.A survey, two microphones are needed for every five already in use : turntables, control consoles, intercommunication equipment, loudspeakers, and other radio workshop equipment are also in demand. • It is interesting to note a wide interest in the field of television and a demand for information despite the fact that approximately only one school in a hundred reported actual ownership of television equipment. Presumably these few TV sets are owned by metropolitan schools, or by schools located close to those major communities now offering regular broadcasts. But — almost one school in four indicated a need for television equipment. A third question which the USOE-RM.'\ Joint Committee asked was designed to guide the future work of the committee. Schoolmen were to indicate which pieces of equipment they needed specific information about. The compilation indicates that tape recorders have aroused the greatest curiosity, closely followed by wire recorders. Then, in order, are transcription players, television receivers, and central sound systems. A simple table drawn from the available data indicates ownership, need, and interest in the following order : We now have We need We want reliable information concerning Tape Recorders Wire Recorders 372 1 Radios Radios 2 Phonographs Phonographs 3 Microphones Transcription Players Transcription Players 4 Radio-phonographs Tape Recorders Television Receivers 5 Transcription Players Microphones Central Sound Systems Approximately seven percent of the schoolmen indicated more than cursory interest in the establishment of educational FM radio stations by answering, '"We are considering installing an FM transmitter". One final word of summary brings information available only by close scrutiny of replies. It is definitely indicated, although no statistics are available to support this, that those schools owning and using equipment need more equipment, while those which have few or no machines indicate need for very little. Some of this is the result of conservatism in launching a new program, but much of it is because those schools using audio devices recognize their value and plan to expand already existing programs. It is reasonable to paraphrase a favorite old saying into "Thems as has, wants" ! ! •& <; -d "l^ For the 13th consecutive year the School Broadcast Conference will meet October 18-20 at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. The meeting is given over to demonstration and discussion of classroom use of radio, television, transcriptions, recordings, and other technological-electronic aids. Educational Screen