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

News from tne Department of AudioVisual Instruction, National Education Association oA h<MMe Remember Los Angeles! Harvey McCammon and Roy Barron, Co-Chairmen of the Program Committee for the DA VI National Convention, have announced that one of the General Sessions will feature a report by Victor Hornbostel on the NEA Research Division's current survey of the status of audio-visual education in city and county school systems. In addition to General Sessions, there will be Action Planning Sections sjjonsored by the National Committees, Concurrent Sessions, demonstrations, commercial exhibits. Cracker Barrel Sessions, and visitations in the Los Angeles area. If you haven't already made plans to attend the convention, by all means do so immediately. The dates again: April 18-22. Yearbook Report The first DAVI Yearbook, "The School Administrator and His Audio-Visual Program," has had an unexpectedly favorable reception around the nation. Although it did not come off the press until the first of this past summer, 1,607 copies have already been sold and the new book is receiving wide popularity as a textbook for classes in audio-visual administration and as a general audiovisual reference book. Available for State Conferences A sizable collection of materials useful for programming or display at state audio-visual conferences and also for membership promotion at conferences or by mailings can now be secured from the national office on request. These materials include such loan and give-away items as: (1) A set of exhibit copies of DAVI publications (2) A set of 2 X 2 color slides with a suggested script telling the story of the DAVI program and services (3) A print of the membership promotion film, "DAVI School Service Plan" (4) "TV Kit No. 1," which includes a three-minute introductory film clip to be used with an accompanying script for a television program de by J. J. Mcpherson Executive Secretary, DAVI 1201 16th St., NW, Washington 6, D. C. veloped around some selected educational film (5) The color filmstrip, The NEA in Action, with accompanying tape recording narrated by William Carr, NEA Executive Secretary (6) The new joint DAVI-State AV Association membership enrollment form (7) Flyers describing the various DAVI publications, including the Yearbook (8) A leaflet describing types of memberships and services in the DAVI and listing the various available publications (9) Letters and leaflets telling about the "Audio-Visual School Service Plan" and "Audio-Visual Communication Review." Order forms listing all of these materials can be secured from the national office on request. College and University Folios In the October issue of this column we announced the availability of nine folios compiled by the College and University Committee but omitted instructions for borrowing them. The folios may be borrowed from DAVI headquarters only one topic at a time and may be kept for no longer than two weeks. Folios are shipped in fibre shipping cases, express collect, and (Continued on page 410) Audio-Visual Techniqvies in Iran Among the prominent foreign visitors to the DAVI national office recently was M. A. Mottaez, Head of the Films Section, Audio-Visual Division of U. S. Operations Division. Iran. Mr. Mottaez expects to be in the United States one year, during which time he will spend much time in study at Syracuse University and Indiana University. In the picture above he is demonstrating a 2 x 2 slide projector at one of the audio-visual workshops in Iran. 408 Educational Screen