NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1958)

Using her Norwegian recording as a beginning, she reports, “So spirited and articulate is the (Nor¬ wegian) repartee that it is possible to enjoy the sound alone without following the sense. We shall be for¬ tunate if we, on this side, can put on as charming a performance.” Dr. Wilsey offers to loan her tape recording or its translation to any interested literature departments, recording services, or broadcasting services, in hopes that her project may expand in scope and become a useful method of study. —N A E B— NEWS OF MEMBERS GENERAL ► The FCC approved the acquisition of off-a-ir KTVQ (Ch. 25) by Independent School District No. 89 of Oklahoma City from Republic TV and Radio Co. This gives the city a total of two ETV stations, as they already have KETA (Ch. 13) op¬ erated by Oklahoma Educational TV authority. y KTCA (TV), St. Paul, Minnesota, rewards out¬ standing performances by an individual with a cer¬ amic figure, “Katie.” The award project was origin¬ ated by an ETV subcommittee of the citizens com¬ mittee to stimulate interest in and support of the station, in operation only since fall of 1957. The first award was given to Karlis Kaufmanis of Gustavus Adolphus College for his series “Descriptive Geo¬ metry.” y The FCC granted the first ETV translator sta¬ tion to the Board of Education for Municipal Schools, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The station will rebroadcast programs of educational station KNME-TV, Albuquerque. ^ The Chicago Board of Education, at its meeting September 10, voted to purchase 226 additional AM- FM radio receivers for classroom use—a gratifying “boost” for FM in-school listening. Another addition to the educational equipment of the Chicago Public Schools will be 330 television receivers. Advance listings of the WBEZ (Chicago) aug¬ mented program schedule, along with order blanks for 32 WBEZ Broadcast Handbooks for Teacher Use are being distributed to active NAEB members. The Division of Radio and Television will be pleased to furnish any of these broadcast guides upon request. Address: Division of Radio and Television, 228 North LaSalle Street, Chicago 1, Illinois. George Jennings, Director of Radio-Television of the Chicago Board of Education, has been on sick leave since early June. He is improving rapidly and hopes to return to the job some time in October. PROGRAMS ^ The Minnesota School of the Air, station KUOM, Minneapolis, began its 21st year of broadcasting at the end of September. KUOM’s philosophy is “to supplement and enrich classroom teaching by provid¬ ing some of the materials which would be difficult or too time-taking to collect for the individual teacher.” They also want their young listeners to “experience the joy of independent thinking, to un¬ derstand the value of human differences, and to dream courageously about the future.” In the field of foreign languages, the Minnesota School of the Air will rebroadcast a 30-program series of German for elementary grades and a brand new 15-program edition of ESPANOL SI SI. Both lan¬ guage series are designed to arouse interest in foreign languages and the customs and countries of the people who speak them. ^ An educational TV project that went on the air in New York includes adult as well as classroom fare. The programs, however, are aimed primarily at class¬ rooms in the metropolitan area of New York City. Directed to adults are “French Through Television,” and an hour-long program which will cover the Rus¬ sian language, modern drama and Latin-American and international affairs. Faculty members from New York area colleges and universities are giving the lectures. ► YOU, the first program series in a new radio-TV concept, is a joint experimental effort in educational broadcasting conducted by KSLH and KETC (TV), St. Louis, Missouri. YOU is a study of the human body designed for use in 6th grade elementary science classes. Two separate programs are presented every week, one radio, the other TV. Radio directs the classroom experiments; TV presents a visual follow¬ up of the material offered in the experiments and fur¬ ther supplements the subject matter of the series. ^ The first color telecast on ETV anywhere began September 14 on KTCA-TV, St. Paul, Minnesota. Three and one-half hours of special color features were programmed. This telecast was produced as a special celebration of the completion of KTCA-TV’s first year of operation. John C. Schwarzwalder, General Manager of Minnesota’s first educational station, stated “Color TV is an ideal medium for teaching, especially in the area of science, and we are looking forward to the day that ETV can bring live color into the homes and classrooms of the Twin City Area.” ^ WGN-TV, Chicago, a commercial station, has started a project to improve the reading instruction in the Chicago schools. The instructors for the TV course are experienced Chicago classroom teachers. The content of the course will be taken from materials See You In Omaha NEWSLETTER