DOCUMENT RESUME ED 070 263 2M 010 521 TITLE Recorded Visual Instruction; 1973 Edition. INSTITUTION Nebraska Univ., Lincoln. Great Plains National Instructional Television Library. PUB DATE 72 NOTE 171p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Art Education; *Catalogs; Driver Education; Drug Education; *Film Libraries; Geography Instruction; History Instruction; *Inservice Courses; Instructional Films; Instructional Materials; *Instructional Television; Language Arts; Language Instruction; Mathematics Instruction; Music Education; Science Instruction; Social Studies; Video Cassette Systems; *Video Tape Recordings ABSSRACT The Great Plains National Instruction Television Library identifies, makes available, and distributes--on a lease basis--videotaped instructional television courses to educational institutions and agencies. It also has materials on 16mm film and kinescope available for lease. The total offering is nearly 150 recorded courses and related teacher utilization and in-service materials. The user either provides his own videotape or video cassette or can lease the equipment from the Library. This cEttalog provides information on both the instructional materials available and on the leasing procedure. The instructional materials are drawn from the major subject areas and deal with subjects like drug education and self-awareness. They are indexed in the following ways: elementary grades by subject matter, elementary grades by grade level, junior high-secondary-adult, utilization and in-service, and college. pig 7 111811111 IMMO/"ITV/ NATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION generalindex ( asterisk denotes: available in COLOR ) PAGE All Aboard for Music 41 American History I 98 American History II 97 American Literature (from PAGE beginning to Civil War) 140 American Literature (from For the Love of Art 8 Fourth Network, The 89 Civil War to present) 141 PAGE 101 Americans All 17 From Franklin to Frost From Me to You in Writing 100 Americans from Africa: Physical Science 149 Fundamentals of Mathematics 143 A History 137 Places in the News 19 General Humanities American System, The 91 Process and Proof 58 Around the Corner 88 (1st Course) 138 Program Development in Geography 15 Art Adventures 4 the Kindergarten 119 Geography for the Gifted 16 Art Corner 2 Project Survival 14 112 Art Discoveries 3 Get the Picture Public Health Science 148 Art for Every Day Hablo ESPat101 12 Quest for the Best 35 Hablo Was Espanol 12 Art Has Many Forms 6 Rails West 18 Heat ArtinTeaching 11f 104 Reading Through Television 127 Humanities (2nd. Course) 139 Astronomy for the Gifted Rhyme Time 21 images 313 Avenida de ingies 10 Ride the Reading Rocket 22 inherit the Earth 71 Basic Machine Shop Science Corner I 68 50 Practices 81 Just Curious Science Corner 11 69 " BB's Cover the Globe 13 Just inquisitive 51 Science in Your Classroom 123 Because We Care 84 Just Wondering 49 Science is Discovery 82 BillMartin 34 Kaivak 7 Science isEverywhere 81 Black Frontier, The 88 Land and Sea 83 Science is Searching 60 Business Writing 131 Language Corner 27 Scienceland 57 Career Guidance 92 Language Lane 29 Science Room, The 53 Carrascolendas 11 Learning Our Language 26 Search for Science 54 CETO TV Training Films 124 Let's Build n City 70 Search for Science (Revised)....55 Child Psychology 146 Let's Explore Science 84 Shakespeare 142 Child Reads, A 118 Let's Go Sciencing 48 Slide Rule 144 Children and the Law 87 Listen and Say 25 Sounds Like Magic 23 Children's Literature 32 Living in a Nuclear Age 78 Sounds of Our Times 44 Communications and Magic of Words, The 33 Sounds to Say 24 Edu ..tion 134 Man and His Art 80 Spelling 30 Conk. n porary IssuesSeries Masters of Our Musical Spelling Two 31 '70s (5 of 7 in color) 108 Heritage 48 Sportsmanlike Driving Counseling the Adolescent 122 Mathemagic 37 (14 lessons in color) 82 Creating Art... 9 Mathematics for the Gifted 113 Studio Teacher, The 110 Cultural Understandings 73 Math Factory 39 Summer Journal 102 Data Processing 136 Mental Health Concepts Teacher Tele Tips 113 Dental Health 117 for Nursing 148 Television in Your Classroom Devices in their Hands/Math Motivating Children to Learn 121 (film strip) 114 intheir Minds 118 Mulligan Stew 77 Television Techniques Drugs Use and Abuse 83 Music of America 45 for Teachers 111 Dynamics of Classroom National Government 160 Tell Me What You See 62 Behavior 120 Newspaper in the Classroom 20 That's A Good Question 72 Educational Psychology 133 Nobody But Yourself 84 Time for English 103 English Composition 99 Odyssey in Black 98 Time for Music 40 Exploring With Science 85 1, 2, 3 You and Me 38 Time to Sing 43 Optics 105 Toute la Bande 87 Our Changing Community 89 Turned On Crisis 84 Our Musical Heritage 42 TV in the Classroom 110 Our World of Economics 813 Typewriting 132 Photo Fun Club 78 Watts = VVIegets/VVIres 88 Word Magic 28 Work is for Real 94 Yearenders 90 Your Future Is Now 95 RECORDED U OEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEENREPRO DUCED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATIONORIG MATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPIN IONS STATED DO NOT NEC::AARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OFEDU VISUAL CATION POSITION OR POLICY INSTRUCTION The material in GPN's 1973 Catalog comes in a variety of modes. The "code spots" on each page will tell you in what mode or modes each series or presentation is available. Here's the key: video tape videocassette (U-Matic) 0 film (16mm) 10 denotes availibility in color Es GREAT PLAINS NATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION LIBRARY BOX 80669 LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501 (402) 467-2502 the GPN story A study undertaken in 1960 and 1961 by Jack McBride and W. C. Meierhenry of the University of Nebraska laid groundwork for establishment of the Great Plains National Instructional Tele- vision Library. The survey, made incooperation with the United States Office of Education, revealed that many schools around the country had produced Over the years, Great Plains National has de- television courses for use on their own systems veloped a sizeable block of materials available ...and that a good number of the courses were on 16mm film and kinescope. Obtainable in most being "saved" by means of video tape recording. cases on either a lease or sales basis, GPN films Further,it was found that many of these tele- have a unique plus going for themin virtually courses featured teachers of excellence and dis- all instances, these films may be used as direct played some highly effective teaching methods. audio-visual presentations in the individual class- An idea formed: why not offer these recorded room ... orthey may be broadcast as television materials to other schocls that use television as an presentations. instructionaltool? Why notletother schools And, in 1972, Great Plains National assumed a benefit from such teaching and the attendant pioneering role in the new U-Matic videocassette opportunity to save a great deal of money always field.It quickly arranged to transfer a large per- involved in initiating original production? centage of its video tape and film materials to The McBride-Meierhenry report also ascer- this format and installed a Sony D-100 duplication tained that optimum use of such material could unit to provide this service to education. GPN sees best be realized by the establishment of distribu- the video cassette format as opening a new era in tion centers ... or libraries. Thus, the Great Plains the use of television for instruction in the class- pilot experiment to test this idea of video tape room. exchange was established in 1962 at the University Since its inception in 1962, GPN's total offer- of Nebraska. ing has grown to nearly 150 recorded courses and NDEA Title VII monies from the U.S. Office related teacher utilization and in-service materials. of Education financed the Great Plains Library Course-uses of GPN-distributed materials have in- through its first four years. Enthusiastic response creased hundreds-fold over the years ... and stu- to the experiment allowed the Library, in 1966, to dents and viewers in virtually all the states and discontinue its fiscal relationship with the USOE in Canada are benefiting from Great Plains Na- and become a wholly self-supporting operation. tional's recorded instruction. The GPN offerings cover a broad spectrum of scholastic levels and The basic mission of the Library was, and con- general interests. ..and range widely in subject tinues to be: to identify, and to make available and area availabilities. d;stribute on a lease basisvideo taped instruc- tional television courses to educational institutions Distribution of Great Plains' recorded materials and agencies desiring such material. isthrough duplicate video tape and U-Matic videocassette recordings made from duplication However, other elements besides video tape masters held at the Library in Lincoln. Individual have been introduced into the GPN operation and new recordings are made for each user to elements that expand the potential uses of Great meet the tape width, scan configuration and tape Plains National materials in the classroom. speed requirements of his playback equipment. The user may either provide his own video tape or video cassette... or such material may be leased from the Library. Assessed in the ease or sales fee are duplication and service charges plus a royalty payment which is returned to the original producer of the material. Late in 1971, Great Plains National joined a half-dozen other agencies of the University of Ne- braska Television Department in a move to new quarters at the Nebraska Educational Telecom- munications Center in Lincoln, The Center is lo- cated on the East Campus of the University of Nebraska at 1800 North 33rd Street. ii This 21-member group and its executive consultant repre- sentative of nationwide leadership in the field of educational policy board communications act in an advisory capacity to Great Plains National's professional staff.