Links to recommended Web resources on Instructional Film, Television, and Radio

A&E Classroom
Classroom tips, teaching materials, and other resources for using television in the classroom.
http://www.aande.com/class/

Agency for Instructional Technology
(Founded in 1962 as the Agency for Instructional Television.)
"The Agency for Instructional Technology has been a leader in educational technology since 1962. A nonprofit organization, AIT is one of the largest providers of instructional TV programs in North America. AIT is also a leading developer of other educational media, including online instruction, CDs, videodiscs, instructional software.”
http://www.ait.net/

Alice Springs School of the Air
The first school of its kind to be established in Australia, the school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2001. It is still going strong. As of 2002, it serves 140 students (including 30 aboriginal students); its reach covers over 386,000 square miles. Radio lessons continue to supplement correspondence work.
http://www.assoa.nt.edu.au/

Assignment: The World
A web site devoted to the longest-running instructional television series, “Assignment: The World,” produced by WXXI-TV, Rochester, NY.
http://atwonline.org/

Association for Educational Communications and Technology
http://www.aect.org/

Aukland College of Education Information and Communication Technology in the Classroom Home Page
“This Site is intended to provide teachers and children with ideas and a range of resource material for using Video in Teaching and Learning. It has been designed to support classroom practice and encourage teachers and children to use video in the classroom.”
http://staff.ace.ac.nz/Centres/Technology/BruceWeb/AudiovideoHome.html
 

Beyond the Classroom and into the Living Room "’Beyond the Classroom and into the Living Room’ brings us back to the golden age of radio when the faculty of the Oshkosh State Teachers College would share their thoughts on a variety of topics with the listening public. Listen in on these radio talks re-read by present day UW Oshkosh faculty and staff.” http://www.uwosh.edu/archives/radio/radiotitle.htm

Biographies
John Logie Baird, the inventor of “mechanical television.”
http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/FINE/juhde/hills961.htm
Philo “Phil” Farnsworth, one of television’s inventors, profiled by Neil Postman.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/farnsworth.html
Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the cathode-ray tube, profiled at the Invent Now National Inventors’ Hall of fame.
http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/158.html

CNN Student News
"CNN Student News is a free, ready-to-use, fully integrated broadcast program and Web site created just for students and teachers."
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/

Cable in the Classroom
Resources provided by the cable industry to promote classroom use of cable television.
http://www.ciconline.com/default.htm

ChannelOne.com
Part of the Channel One Network, which centers on Channel One News. "Channel One News is a daily, televised, 10-minute newscast that is beamed via satellite during the school year to each of the 12,000 schools in the Channel One Network community."
http://www.channelone.com/

Charting the Digital Broadcasting Future
The Benton Foundation's Advisory Committee Report on Public Internet Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters
http://www.benton.org/publibrary/piac/report.html
 

Children's Educational Television A site provided by the FCC "to inform parents and other members of the public about the obligation of every television broadcast station in this country to provide educational and informational programming for children". http://svartifoss2.fcc.gov/prod/kidvid/prod/kidvid.htm

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
http://www.cpb.org/

Evolution of Distance Learning
Paper presented by Edward F. Spodnick, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library
http://sqzm14.ust.hk/distance/evolution-distance-learning.htm

History TV.net
Early television history through images of inventors, equipment, and early broadcasts.
http://historytv.net/

The Media History Project
From the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Includes information about the history of a wide variety of print, electrical, mass and digital media. Provides topical lists of resources on film, radio, television.
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/index2.html

The Media Literacy Review
The biannual online publication of the Media Literacy Online Project of the College of Education
of the University of Oregon at Eugene. Features "hundreds of links to world-wide media literacy sites,  extensive article database and other support resources for media educators."
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/home/index.html

The Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television
"The Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is one of only two broadcast museums in
America." Its website includes a searchable version of the Encyclopedia of Television; among the encyclopedia's over 1,000 entries are essays on a variety of topics related to ETV.
http://www.Museum.TV/archives/etv/index.html
 

The National Public Broadcasting Archives The archives "began as a cooperative effort among several broadcasting organizations and educational institutions. CPB, PBS and NPR along with the Academy for  Educational Development joined forces with the University of Maryland to preserve the history of public broadcasting in America.” Part of the Archives and Manuscripts Department of the University of Maryland Libraries. http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/

Patricia L. Swenson Interview
Dr. Patricia L. Swenson worked as manager of instructional radio station KBPS from
1947 to 1974. Through most of his career in public radio, she has been very active on
the national scene, where she has served as a vigorous advocate of instructional radio
on dozens of boards, committees, and special commissions.
http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/oral/swenson.html

The Public Broadcasting Service
http://www.pbs.org/
Includes a page listing and linking television and web resources for teachers.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

Radio & Television Resources for K12 Educators
Links to a wide variety of resources from the Internet School Library Media Center.
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/index.html
 

Sesame Workshop Formerly known as the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW), this group is responsible for the creation of “Sesame Street,” “The Electric Company,” and other notable educational television programs for children. http://www.sesameworkshop.org/

Technology in the Classroom: Haven't We Heard This Before?
Article about the evolution of instructional technology by Christopher D. Hunter, then a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication.
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/chunter/edtech.html

Technology Timeline
Rather than describing past events, this timeline (published by BTexact Technologies) predicts future technological developments, linking each development to the year of its earliest potential occurence.
http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/timeline/index.htm

Television History – the First 75 Years
Focuses on commercial television and the manufacture and sale of the television set.  Also contains timelines and lots of interesting trivia.
http://www.tvhistory.tv/

Tips for Using Television in the Classroom
From WQED-TV, Pittsburgh.
http://www.wqed.org/erc/teachers/tips.shtml

TV Link Film and Television Archive
A detailed list of web resources relating to film and broadcasting.
http://www.timelapse.com/tvlink.html

Using TV/Video in the Classroom
Tips from SCETV School Services.
http://www.scetv.org/education/k-12/resources/classroom_tv.cfm

Winky-Dink and You
A W ebsite devoted to the first interactive television show.
http://www.tvparty.com/requested2.html
 
 

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