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

HAVE YOU HEARD? I News About People, Organizations, Events At Florida workshop Jim Froberg, graduate student at Florida State University, demonstrates transparencies with the overhead projector for a group of teachers. Florida Group Holds AV Workshop The Audiovisual Section of the Florida Education Association presented a program for teachers at the annual meeting March 20, in Tampa, Florida. More than a thousand teachers listened to Dr. Irene Cypher and participated in the meeting. The first part consisted of a talk by Dr. Cypher on the "Importance of Materials in Teaching," and a visualized demonstration on "Display Materials ' presented by Otis McBride and Bill Quinly of Florida State University. During the last hour teachers visited twenty-odd concurrent demonstrations covering a wide range of instructional materials. These included such topics as making transparencies, the polaroid camera, homemade filmstrips, puppets, arithmetic kits, Junior Museum materials, types of book bindings, the micro projector, school participation in fair exhibits, new science lx)oks, book illustrations, elementary science carts, elementary industrial arls carts, dry mounting, wet mounting, rubber cement mounting, vertical file and dioramas. Response to the program has been enthusiastic, and the evaluation indicates that the AV Section will be asked to present programs for teachers at each annual meeting. 280 Annual AV Workshop At Indiana U. "Improving Learning Through the Use of .\udiovisual Materials" is the theme of Indiana University's annual audiovisual conference-workshop, to be held on the campus June 22-26. Lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations and informal group participation are designed to be beneficial for all those interested in the educational use of audiovisual materials. Monday through Friday, the programs will be centered around: the curricular basis for the use of AV materials; techniques for making ,\V materials; suggestions for using AV materials; practical aspects of administering an AV program; evaluation of AV programs. One hour of credit may be earned for attendance at the complete conference. For further information, write Dr. Carolyn Guss, Audio-Visual Center, Indiana University, Bloomington. Questionnaires Test Reactions to ETV Henry S. Dyer, Educational Testing Service Vice President for Research and .\dvisory Services, and his assistant, Anne H. Ferris, have developed an evaluation questionnaire callec "Sizing Up Your School Subjects.' The approacli is indirect in order tc get the students' unbiased reactions .Ml students in a given grade complete tlie questionnaires, those in experi mental TV and control groups as wel as those who have no connection with the study. Only the answers from th< experimental and control groups are used in the analysis. Topics under discussion include the student's likes and dislikes in sub ject areas; ease of learning; time in volved in studying and preparation, comparative u.sefulness of the subjects; how much the student feels he is actu ally learning. USF Opens New Language Lab The University of San Francisco has constructed a sixty-booth, $40.00( electronic language laboratory, undei the direction of Father P. Carlo Rossi S. J., member of the language faculty Students will now spend two hours in class and four in the laboratory, where each student will be able to proceed at the level of his own ability. People in the News Col. Homer F. Kellems, nationally known lecturer, educator, and directoi of photography for Eye Gate House Inc., was ambushed and killed by W gerian rebels early in March. He was on a photographic assignment with his assistant, William B. Hobbs (whc survived), and had just entered th( rebel-infested area of West Algeri; from Morocco. It is thought that th( rebels were ignorant of his nationality Col. Kellems was the first ,\mericai killed in the four-year-old rebellion. John T. Hawkinson, manager o audiovisual services for the Ulinoi Central Railroad Company, Chicagc was elected president of the Industria .Audio-Visual .Association at that oi ganization's annual meeting in Chicag on April 28, 29 and 30. The retirin president is Frank B. Greenleaf. filr supervisor for United States Stee Corporation's Chicago district. EdScreen & AV Guide — June, 195'