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

Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide EDITORIAL STAFF Paul C. Reed Sue Moore Editor Managing Editor William S. Hockman Editor for the Church Field L. C. Larson and Carolyn Guss Editors for Film Evaluations Max U. Bildersee Editor for the Audio Field Irene F. Cypher Editor for Filmstrips, Flat Materials Phillip Lewis Technical Editor William F. Kruse Trade and Public Relations Consultant Joan Howard Editorial Assistant BUSINESS STAFF H. S. Gillette Publisher Marie C. Green, Mrs. Ruth M. Lewin Associate Publishers Olive R. Tracy Circulation Manager Patrick A. Philippi Circulation Promotion Wilma Widdicombe Advertising Manager Owen McKeon Assistant Advertising Manager ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Mrs. Ruth M. Lewin, 105 New England Ave., Summit, N. J. (Crestview 3-3042) Audio-Visual Media, Inc., 724 Ingleside Shore Road, Ingleside, III. EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD JAMES W. BROWN, School of Educolion, Son Ja» State College. California EDGAR DALE, Head, Curriculum Dlvltion, Bureau of Educational Research, Ohio State Univertity. Columbus AMO DE BERNARDIS, AssistonI Superintendent, Portland, Oregon, Public Schools MARGARET W. DIVIZIA, Supervisor In Charge, Audio-Visual Education Section, Los Angeles City Schools, Los Angeles, California W. H. DURR, Deputy Superintendent, Hawaii Dept. of Public Instruction, Honolulu, Hawaii CHARLES F. HOBAN, Institute for Cooperative Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia EMILY S. JONES, Executive Secretary, Educational Film Library Association, New York City f. EDGAR LANE, supervisor. Instructional Moterlols Department, Board of Public Instruction, Dade County, Florida f. DEAN McCLUSKY, Professor Emeritus, University of Colifornia, P. O. Box 446, Nice, Calif. SEERLEY REID, U. S. Office of Education, Washington CHARLES F. SCHUILER, Director, Audio-Visual Center, Michigon State College, East Lansing, Michigan ERNEST TIEMANN, Director, Visual Instruction Bureou. Associate Professor, Division of Extension, The University of Texas, Austin DON WHITE, Executive Vice President, Notional Audio-Visual Association, Fairfax, Virginia j 692 XEWS ► EBF FUND FOR PROGRESS 'I'lie Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Fund for Studies of Teaching and Learning has been created at The University of Chicago with a gift of $62,500 from Wilham Benton, Chairman of the Board of Encyclopaedia Britannica and a Trustee of the University. "Education is America's biggest 'industry'," Mr. Benton said. Technology-including developments of great potential value for education-grows at an ever-accelerating pace. But many school systems seem unaware of this; they caiTy on much as they did half a century ago. "I am delighted that the University's scholars are eager to study and appraise these new developments, and thus to help close the gap." In a joint statement announcing the Fund, Warren Everote, President of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc., Wilmette, Ilhnois, and George Wells Beadle, President of the University of Chicago, said: "We hope the Fund will stimulate broad and imaginative inquiry into the uses of modern scientific advances in helping both student and teacher in the nation's classrooms meet the complex challenges of the times." Awards from the Fund will be made by a committee appointed by Francis S. Chase, Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Chairman of the Department of Education. "Consideration will be given to providing support for the training of as well as research by young persons of exceptional ability who show promise of making important contributions to the advancement of learning," Dean Chase said. "Special attention will be given to research on learning involving the use of modem technological resources." ► ETV IN CHICAGO Elementary schools throughout the Chicago area have the opportunity to utilize eleven courses of instruction presented over WTTW-Channel 11 as a supplement to regular classroom work, which began September 24, 1962. The instructional materials, selected from the best available courses record ed on film and videotape all over the United States, were chosen by an expert curriculum committee of the TriCounty Educational Television Council which is sponsoring the telecasts. In this way, the Council will continue for a second year its sponsorship of inschool use of television instructional materials via WTTW. The courses presented are: Arithmetic (Grade 4-5), Spanish (Grades 4-6 and 5-7), Social Studies (Kindergarten to Grade 3), French (Grades 3-4 and 4-5), Science (Grades 4-6 and 6-8), Art (Grades 4-6) and Contemporary Crafts (Grades 6-8). The Tri-County Educational Television Council is an organization of educators, school Ijoard members and television educators associated with the Tri-County Division of the Illinois Association of Sch(X)l Boards specifically to supply information about and plan for the use of educational television in the schools of the Chicago area. LOOKING AHEAD Dr. William H. Allen, (left) Editor of AV Communication Review and president-elect of the Department of Audiovisual Insti-uction, confers with James Meacher, Audiovisual Director of the Penfield, New York, schools, and Paul C. Reed, Director of Instructional Materials for the City School District of Rochester, concerning plans for the 1964 DA VI Conference to be held in Rochester. ► EFLA'S FIFTH FESTIVAL Top-rated 16mm films from among approximately 8,000 non-theatrical Continued cm Page 694 Educational Screen and Audiovisual Guide— December, 1962