NAEB Newsletter (April 1, 1961)

Publications • Television in Teacher Education is a 72-page book¬ let edited by Edwin P. Adkins and obtainable from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1201 Sixteenth St., N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Single copies $1.50. • Radio and Television, a Selected Bibliography may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., for 25 cents. Author of the 45-pager is Patricia Beall Hamill. • “Automation in Education,” a reprint from Teach¬ ers College Record, may be ordered from the Bureau of Publications, Columbia University Teachers Col¬ lege, 525 W. 120th Street, New York 27, for 50 cents per copy. • Several articles from the “international issue” of the NAEB Journal (July-August 1960) have been translated and inserted in the Japan Broadcasting Corporation’s semi-annual bulletin “Kaigai Joho,” which was issued last month. • The American Council on Education, 1785 Massa¬ chusetts Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., has published a comprehensive study of Educational Ac¬ tivities of Business. The 180-page book sells for $4. • Coming out in the fall will be a book on the Nixon-Kennedy debates, with contributions by lead¬ ing figures in the TV industry and communications field. Called The Great Debates, the book is to be published by Indiana University Press. • The Institute of International Education, 1 East 67th Street, New York 21, has released two publica¬ tions on summer study. For 25 cents, the summer scholar may obtain a copy of the LIE News Bulletin, which is devoted to a report of summer study oppor¬ tunities. The other publication, “Summer Study Abroad,” lists summer programs and scholarship possibilities. The booklet is free. Summer Workshops • International Communications Workshop, June 5- 16. On the campus of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Sponsored by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. To study the major communications media and their value to the church. Write John Groller, Registrar/ International Communications Workshop, 1521 Wil- shire Blvd., Los Angeles 17, California. • Workshop in the Creation and Utilization of In¬ structional Television Programs, July and August, six weeks. Boston University. Facilities: two fully equipped TV studios, film chain and closed-circuit operation. For TV production personnel and class¬ room teachers. Write Dr. Murray R. Yaeger, Work¬ shop Director, Boston University, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. • Workshop in Airborne Television Instruction, June 19-30. Northwestern University. Designed to provide training in use of televised instruction in the classroom. Special programs designed for workshop use will be broadcast from the MPATI aircraft. Write Area Coordinator, Airborne Television, School of Speech, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. • Television in Education, July 10-28. University of California at Los Angeles. Will include classroom utilization, lesson planning, administration of ETV in the school, overhead TV, self-directed TV, remote- controlled cameras. Write Education Extension, Uni¬ versity of California, Los Angeles 24. Back Issues of Journal Available There have been requests recently for back issues of the NAEB Journal. Issues since the NAEB began publishing the Journal in October, 1956, are available except for the following: November, 1958; December, 1957; January, 1958; October, 1959; November, 1959; January-February, 1960; March-April, 1960. The price is $1 per copy. In addition, most back issues of the AERT Journal (as the publication was known before it was taken over by the NAEB) are available at $1 each. Issues no longer in print are available on microfilm starting with Vol. IX. FAE Officials Honored On March 14 in Milwaukee, the NAEB co-sponsored with the NETRC a banquet to honor FAE officials for their work on behalf of educational broadcasting. Plaques were presented by the NAEB to C. Scott Fletcher, G. H. Griffiths, and Ann Spinney. May To Be National Radio Month Theme of this year’s NAB-sponsored National Radio Month is “Radio—The Best Sound Around.” Edu¬ cational stations may find this an ideal opportunity to call attention to educational radio while national emphasis is being placed on all radio. The NAB is distributing campaign aids to radio stations—and lists of suggestions to civic groups to urge their coopera¬ tion. Books Beat TV A specialist in instructional materials declared at the University of Michigan recently that books are the most efficient teaching aids and TV the least efficient. Louis Forsdale, of the Horace Mann-Lincoln Insti¬ tute of School Experimentation at Columbia Uni¬ versity’s Teachers College, said this is because the effectiveness depends on the degree of control which APRIL 1961