ISU Audio/Visual Catalog
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COMPREHENSIVE PREVENTION PLANNING 057163
PLANNING, PREPARING FOR ACTS/FEELINGS OF ONCOMING VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR
RENTAL FEE $ .00 90 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: HOPE FOUNDATION
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 059968

RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: IDAHO SPEECH & HEARING ASSN.
COMPUTER BASICS 990352
This series of eight one-hour-long seminars will focus on technology applications in the classroom. The programs will feature discussions by K-12 and university educators and demonstrations of technology in use in the classroom. The series is designed for teachers, media specialists, administrators, and parents interested in providing the latest technology to their schools.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS ADULT LEARNING SAT. SERV.
COMPUTER PROGRAMME, THE, 01: IT'S HAPPENING NOW 050059
Much that we take for granted in our daily lives, like the airline and tour industries, simply couldn't exist without computers. This first program explores just what is the ability of computers. A computer program is just a matter of one operation after another. A tour of a car plant shows us how an assembly line is also a kind of program as is the set of instructions that control a Violano virtuosos --a mechanical musical instrument.
RENTAL FEE $ 25.00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
COMPUTER PROGRAMME, THE, 03: TALKING TO A MACHINE 050060
A discussion of computer languages. Surprisingly, a computer language like BASIC is more like English than at first thought. Storing information is one of the major uses of computers, a use you probably had demonstrated the last time you received a bill for a charge account. How does a computer store and sort information?
RENTAL FEE $ 25.00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
COMPUTER PROGRAMME, THE, 05: THE NEW MEDIA 050061
Are computers going to become the new media? Mac explores communica- tion between computers and the uses to which they are put for our daily needs. Future computer screens are probably not going to be full of numbers and letters but sound and moving pictures, and here we discover com- puter animation and art.
RENTAL FEE $ 25.00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
COMPUTER PROGRAMME, THE, 07: LET'S PRETEND 050062
You can learn quite a lot from an accurate model of the real thing, and one of the truly exciting capabilities of computers is simulation. Do computers think? They can learn. A Yale professor tells of the most recent developments in creating artificial intelligence and what the future may hold.
RENTAL FEE $ 25.00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
COMPUTER PROGRAMME, THE, 09: IN CONTROL 050063
Discusses how the binary switching nature of digital computers lends itself to their use as controlling devices. In looking at computer technology and its effects on 20th century society, this final program focuses on agriculture and information processing.
RENTAL FEE $ 25.00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
COMPUTER SCIENCE PT 21/22 055335
Program 21: OVERVIEW The history of the computer points out the relationship and interdependence between mathematics and computers and the subtle change from master to user that computers' incredible mem- ory and speed has created. Program 22: RULES OF THE GAME Algorithms direct computers to solve problems from chess games to income taxes. Computer users must understand the basics behind algorithms to analyze, choose, and apply the best algorithm for a given problem.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANNENBERG/CPB COLLECTION
COMPUTER SCIENCE PT 23/24 055336
Program 23: COUNTING BY TWOS Computers store, process, and reproduce information via codes. Because of its vital applications to computer science, encoding has developed into a major area of mathematical study. Program 24: CREATING A CODE Encoding information for a computer requires choosing the best and most efficient code based on certain considerations, such as type of information and size and cost of computer memory.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANNENBERG/CPB COLLECTION
COMPUTER SCIENCE PT 25/26 055337
Program 25: MOVING PICTURE SHOW Visit Symbolics, Inc. to let the experts explain computer graphics. The creation of a three-dimensional model on the screen is demonstrated as are object animation, rendering of a realistic simulation and automated motion. Program 26: SUMMING UP A summary of the key points in the series, the concluding program emphasizes the real-world applications of mathematics in today's society and the mathematical models that can be built from them.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANNENBERG/CPB COLLECTION
COMPUTER SOFTWARE: PRODUCTS AND UTILIZATION 990354
This series of eight one-hour-long seminars will focus on technology applications in the classroom. The programs will feature discussions by K-12 and university educators and demonstrations of technology in use in the classroom. The series is designed for teachers, media specialists, administrators, and parents interested in providing the latest technology to their schools.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS ADULT LEARNING SAT. SERV.
CONFERENCING SKILLS 056933
This program will show you how you can increase your effectiveness as a supervisor and coach by using the conferencing skills of trust, building, questioning, responding and empowering. It also shows how these communication skills can help teachers gain greater confidence in their teaching and decision making.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 38 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ASSOC. FOR SUPVISN CURRIC DEV.
CONFERENCING SKILLS PRACTICE TAPE I 056934
This video gives you an example of a principal/supervisor having a preconference, observation, and postconference with a teacher. It shows you how to perform a successful conference.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ASSOC. FOR SUPVISN CURRIC DEV.
CONFERENCING SKILLS PRACTICE TAPE II 056935
This video shows you an example of a principal/supervisor having a prconference, observation, and post conference with a teacher. It shows how to perform a successful conference.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 50 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ASSOC. FOR SUPVISN CURRIC DEV.
CONFIDENCE INTERVALS/SIGNIFICANCE TESTS pt19/20 055510
Part 19: CONFIDENCE INTERVALS Understand the confidence interval and how it is used in blood pressure studies, political and population surveys, and primate research. Part 20: SIGNIFICANCE TESTS A hiring discrimination case and a study of Shakespeare illustr- ate the basic reasoning behind tests of significance.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANNENBERG/CPB COLLECTION
CONFLICT ON THE LINE: A CASE STUDY 031122
Emotional explosion between supervisor Shirley and employee Danny blows up right in front of the whole line! Both are valued employees, Danny is the key person on a vital project, and Shirley is a top-rated supervisor slated for future promotions. How does an organization handle this kind of situation?
RENTAL FEE $ .00 15 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CRM/MCGRAW-HILL FILMS
CONFRONTATION AND A FACULTY 056998
Provides three scenes of a principal confronting an employee showing both the negative and the positive ways of handling that situation. It also allows you to observe a faculty meeting.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 40 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONFRONTATION: INTRODUCTION "A" 039123
A human relations training unit and simulation game for teachers and administrators in a multi-ethnic elementary and high school.
RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANTI-DEF. LEAG. B'NAI B'RITH
CONFRONTATION: LESSON 1 "B" 039124

RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANTI-DEF. LEAG. B'NAI B'RITH
CONFRONTATION: LESSON 2 "C" 039125

RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANTI-DEF. LEAG. B'NAI B'RITH
CONFRONTATION: LESSON 3 "D" 039126

RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANTI-DEF. LEAG. B'NAI B'RITH
CONFRONTATION: LESSON 4 "E" 039127

RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANTI-DEF. LEAG. B'NAI B'RITH
CONFRONTING SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON CAMPUS 990393

RENTAL FEE $ .00 118 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONGRESS A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A REPRESENTATIVE 056759
The 535 elected U.S. Senators and Representatives carry with them the desires and opinions of over 200 million Americans. Congress is often accused of being out of touch with the people - but what does the system demand of them? Is there enough time in the day to satisfy all of the varied interests and mandates of the job? This program ex- plores the world through the eyes of those who we elect. From the political meetings to the social functions to the time spent cam- paigning, this program examines what politicians really do - and have to endure - in Washington.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES, INC.
CONIFEROUS FOREST BIOME 030494
Describes mutually dependent relationships of organisms in a typical coniferous forest in the American Northwest and tells how these organ- isms aid each other's growth and survival. Explains reproduction and growth processes of conifers. Stresses the need for conservation.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 16 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ENCYC. BRIT. ED. CORP.
CONNECTING FAMILIES AND SCHOOLS: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS 991104
This Town Meeting tape explores such issues as: * What steps can families take to contribute to the social, emotional, and academic growth of children? * How can family-school-community partnerships help ensure that schools are safe? * What actions can teachers and schools take to expand opportunities for families to participate in the children's education. * How can parents and teachers communicate more effectively? * What role do businesses have in facilitating family involvement in children's learning? * What kinds of community programs support the goal of greater family involvement in education? * How can government, at both the state and federal levels, encourage families and schools to work together?
RENTAL FEE $ .00 59 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONNECTING THE ISSUES PART 19 OF 24 056632
This program concerns dealing with multiple issues through social action and includes as studio guest, Maha Jarad, director, Women in Organizing Project, Women United for a Better Chicago.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 59 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY
CONNECTIONS 055658
The title is based on actual situations involving manufacturers, sales representatives, distributors, retail buyers, and marketing people. The story illustrates the risks to sellers and buyers crossing over the line into illegal horizontal and vertical pricing understandings.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: COMMONWEALTH FILMS, INC.
CONNECTIVE TISSUE 055925
Connective tissue is found virtually everywhere in the human body. Consequently, the student of microscopic anatomy must learn to recog- nize and identify its various forms in histological sections. This video program simplifies that task for the student by presenting the fundamental features of the microanatomy of connective tissue in an extremely lucid fashion.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 26 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: MICRON BIOSYSTEMS
CONQUERING CANCER PART 4 OF 8 056451
See abstracts for "The Immortal Thread" and "Accidents of Creation" for a definition of the scope of this title. Their numbers are: 990793 and 990794. Program #4 probes the new understanding of the molecular machinery that causes cells to turn cancerous. The search for treatments for some types of cancer, such as inheritable breast cancer, has become a high-stakes hunt for a type of gene that is prone to become malignant. Once identified, such "oncogenes" are expected to point the way to cures.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 56 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS ADULT LEARNING SAT. SERV.
CONQUERING CANCER PART 4 OF 8 990796

RENTAL FEE $ .00 56 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS ADULT LEARNING SAT. SERV.
CONRACK 055345
Conroy is the best eighth grade teacher a remote South Carolina island ever had. He doesn't just teach by the book, he uses whatever is at hand. To educate illiterate, impoverished children, he employs highly unorthodox methods. For example, to illustrate the law of gravity, he sits in a tree and drops an apple on a student's head. His unconven- tionality endears him to his pupils and brings him into conflict with the reactionary school superintendent. Conrack, the children's way of pronouncing Conroy's name, is a movie filled with love.
RENTAL FEE $ 3.00 111 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PLAYHOUSE VIDEO
CONSCIENCE IN CONFLICT 055104
All key scenes from A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, based on the life of Sir Thomas More. The theme is: to what extent should a man hold fast to his principles? More refuses to compromise his religious beliefs, ul- timately losing his life.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 34 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: LEARNING CORPORATION OF AM.
CONSEQUENCES OF RELIGIOUS CONFLICT, THE PART 8 OF 18 056490

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: SOUTH CAROLINA ETV
CONSERVATION 060610
Describes three stages in the development of logical intelligence; preoperational, concrete and the beginning of formal operations. Demonstrates the idea of conservation and reveals children's thinking processes at different stages of development. Suggests that teaching programs can help children make the transition from one stage to the next.
RENTAL FEE $ 15.00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: DAVIDSON FILMS, INC.
CONSERVATION OF ENERGY PART 13 055162
According to one of the major laws of physics, energy is neither cre- ated nor destroyed.
RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM PART 15 055164
Newton's laws embody the concept of conservation of momentum--the pro- duct of mass and velocity.
RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS INCORPORATED
CONSERVING THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE 057568

RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY-WHAT WORLD DO WE SEE? PT. 1 OF 4 990922

RENTAL FEE $ .00 58 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONSTUCTIVE CONFRONTATION R.T. TECHNIQUES 056985
A focus on confrontation skills that will make conferences with students and parents effective.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONSUMER CREDIT AND LOANS 200034

RENTAL FEE $ .00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR:
CONSUMER SKILLS: BUYING FOR IMMEDIATE USE 030935
As the camera follows three young consumers shopping for typical pur- chases in grocery, clothing, variety and drug stores, viewers have the opportunity to observe alternative purchasing decisions and consider whether or not each purchase is made wisely.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 14 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CORONET/MTI FILM & VIDEO
CONSUMER SKILLS: BUYING FOR LONG-TERM USE 030934
Offers valuable guidelines for making sensible choices and avoiding costly errors when buying articles of long-term use. Several consumers are asked to turn back the clock and tell how accurate their predic- tions about last year's purchases have been.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 12 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CORONET/MTI FILM & VIDEO
CONSUMER SKILLS: BUYING SERVICES 030933
After Danny is involved in an automobile accident, he requires the services of a towing company, doctor, lawyer, insurance agent and auto repair shop. He gets expert advice on what determines prices, how to evaluate the services he needs. A narrator provides additional infor- mation about other services; carpentry, home repairs and utilities.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 14 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CORONET/MTI FILM & VIDEO
CONSUMING IMAGES 055414
This episode looks at a society inundated with visual images. From billboards to bus stops, from rock videos to newsstands, mass-produced images have become the very air Americans breathe. These images are driven by the advertising ethic that now pervades not only business but politics and journalism. What is the cultural atmosphere saying to us and why should we care?
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
CONTACT PROGRAM 1 OF 12 056331

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 1 OF 12 056341

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 1 OF 12 990372

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 2 OF 12 056332

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 2 OF 12 990373

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 3 OF 12 056333

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 3 OF 12 990374

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 4 OF 12 056334

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 4 OF 12 990375

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 5 OF 12 056335

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 5 OF 12 990376

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 6 OF 12 056336

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 6 OF 12 990377

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 7 OF 12 056337

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 7 OF 12 990378

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 8 OF 12 056338

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 8 OF 12 990379

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 9 OF 12 056339

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 9 OF 12 990380

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 10 OF 12 056340

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 10 OF 12 990381

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 11 OF 12 990382

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 12 OF 12 056342

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTACT PROGRAM 12 OF 12 990383

RENTAL FEE $ .00 28 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONTAINING CRISIS: MANAGING SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY EMERGENCIES 057164
DISCUSSION/RESOLUTIONS WHAT SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY CAN DO TO MANAGE PER POTRATERS OF VIOLENCE.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 90 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: HOPE FOUNDATION
CONTEMPORARY GENDER RELATIONSHIPS ON CAMPUS 056521
The program features Alvin Poussaint, clinical professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Med. School; Andrea Parrot, a nationally recognized ex- pert in the field of sexual communication; Ron Campbell, a human sexu- ality educator specializing in issues of male sexuality; Lydia Ledesma a noted expert in intercultural communications and gender relations on community college campuses; Amy Reynolds, former chair of the ACPA Standing Committee for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Awareness; Catalyst Theater Company, a theater for social change at Towson State Univ. in Baltimore, MD. The videotape is divided into three segments focusing primarily on respect and interracial relationships, faculty/student relationships and gender equity, and gay/lesbian issues. Catalyst Theater Company opens each segment with a dramatic performance.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 120 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: COX, MATTHEWS & ASSOCIATES INC
CONTEXT 055142
To see an object within its framework means to see it in context. It is a goal of all problem solving to train the powers of observation, to cultivate that attitude of mind that is constantly on the lookout for the unexpected and that makes a habit of examining every clue that chance presents. This is free-loan material. The only charge is return postage.
RENTAL FEE $ 5.00 18 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: MODERN TALKING PICTURE SER.
CONTINENT ON THE MOVE: MIGRATION & URBANIZATION PT 3 OF 10 056140
This episode examines one of the most important forces transforming the Americas today: the migration of vast numbers of people within the region. The program is set in Mexico, where whole villages have moved to the congested cities.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 56 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ANNENBERG/CPB COLLECTION
CONTINUUM 060596
Animation is used to present examples of the slowdown of time, con- traction of moving lengths and other ideas essential to an understan- ding of relativity. Banesh Hoffman explains the intricacies and para- doxical aspects of the theories, especially the postulates concerning the principle of relativity and the independence of the speed of light from the motion of its source.
RENTAL FEE $ 15.00 45 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: MEDIA GUILD
CONTRACTS 056545

RENTAL FEE $ .00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CNN/ALLYN AND BACON
CONTRIBUTIONS 055878
Could the rest of the nation get along without Idaho? Would the nation want to give us up? Idaho has given a place and a matrix on which creativity could flourish. What Idahoans have done may surprise people. Conclusion. Part 13 of 13
RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: IDAHO EDUCATIONAL P. B. S.
CONTRIBUTIONS PART 15 OF 15 056263
What we give to the world often tells much about who we are. Idaho and Idahoans have given a lot to society. "Contributions" shows a few of the state's famous and not-so-famous offerings. It encourages students to think about what they can give the world. A teacher's guide is available.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 13 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: IDAHO EDUCATIONAL P. B. S.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF SCHOOL IN DEVELOPING LITERATURE CITIZENSHIP 057022
A serious talk about what illiteracy is and how it can be avoided in the schools. WAht directions educators need to take to get a lower illiteracy level and be able to send more literate people into the community.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 35 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PHI DELTA KAPPA
CONTROL UNIT 330703

RENTAL FEE $ .00 0 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: I.S.U. MEDIA CENTER
CONVERSATION ABOUT EDUCATION IN AMERICA/GOALS 2000 OVERVIEW 991103
This tape of the June Satellite Town Meeting will explore such issues as: * parents as their children's first teachers; * strategies for parents to encourage more learning in the home; * new roles for parents in school governance; * how parents (and grandparents and other family members) can get involved in serious, substantive ways with their local school; and * improving communications between school and home.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 59 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
CONVERSATION WITH ALICE WALKER, A 055961
In this profile, Alice Walker shares with us her remarkable spiritual journey from a sharecropping childhood in rural Georgia to the peace and creativity of her present retreat in Northern California. She reads from her poetry and discusses contemporary America with an anger and urgency rooted in an abiding optimism. Walker explains the "woman- ist" perspective which informs her 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple", and her most recent novels "The Temple of My Fam- iliar" and "Possessing the Secret of Joy." "Being black, being a woman, being a writer is like having three eyes, three hearts, instead of one," she confides. "I feel blessed."
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATION WITH AUGUST WILSON, A 055962
Interviewed on the set of his latest play "Two Trains Running", this conversation introduces one of America's most celebrated playwrights, August Wilson. His on-going project to write a play on African-Ameri- can life set in each decade of this century is one of the most ambi- tious endeavors in the history of the American theater. Wilson traces the origins of his plays back to a troubled childhood in a Pittsburgh ghetto. He explains the influence of black traditions like storytell- ing and the blues on such Pulitzer Prize winning plays as "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson." He describes his role as passing down the practic- al and spiritual wisdom of the African American community. "It's al- most as if I'm connecting with something larger than myself and I trust that...it's part of what I call the blood's memory.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES JOHNSON, A 055958
Charles Johnson is a quintessentially multicultural author. In this conversation, he explains how in books like "Oxherding Tale" and "Faith and the Good Thing" he blends together black folktales, Zen parables, 18th century picaresque novels and 20th century philosophy into storytelling of remarkable virtuosity. In this cassette, he des- cribes his over-arching literary objective: to explore classic, meta- physical questions from East and West agains the backdrop of African American life and history. His 1900 National Book Award winner "Middle Passage, a sea saga about an educated freed slave who signs on board a slave ship, becomes a search for individual identity among conflicting European and African Cultures.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATION WITH FREDRICK FRANCK, A 055804
Frederick Franck discusses life, art, religion, and the universal qualities of being human. In the 60-minute program, Franck shows many examples of his drawings and sculptures, discusses his newest books, Life Drawing Life, and Elegy for Spaceship Titanic and reminisces about his friendships with Schweitzer and Pope John XXIII.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 60 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PBS ADULT LEARNING SAT. SERV.
CONVERSATION WITH GLORIA NAYLOR, A 055959
Gloria Naylor is one of the most acute observers of contemporary Afri- can American life. Readings from her 1982 National Book Award Winner "The Women of Brewster Place, Linden Hills" and "Mama Day" reveal the bredth of her vision; from the rural South, to the urban ghetto to the black middle class. In this cassette, Naylor discusses the value and difficulty of maintaining an African American identity in a world dom- inated by whites. For example, in her most recent novel "Mama Day", a 90 year old conjuror on a magical island off the coast of Georgia, in- structs her citified nephew to look to his African American past for strength. Often described as a cultural nationalist, Naylor reminds each of her readers, "to celebrate voraciously that which is yours."
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATION WITH JOHN WIDEMAN, A 055963
John Wideman's trilogy "Sent for You Yesterday", "Damballah", and "Hiding Place" has turned Homewood, the Pittsburgh ghetto where he was reared, into a mythic place in the American literary imagination like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. In books like "Philadelphia Fire" the account of an infamous police action which burned an entire black nei- ghborhood, or "Brothers and Keepers", Wideman has given voice to people not usually heard in American literature. In this cassette, he candidly discusses the dilemma of the committed African American in- tellectual torn between the urban underclass and a predominatly white, middle class literary audience. He writes because, "African Americans have to carry alternative versions of reality in our heads and the model for doing that exists in art."
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATION WITH TONI MORRISON, A 055960
This cassette introduces one of the most widely acclaimed contemporary American writers. Toni Morrison has been called, "a literary Moses stripping away the idols of whiteness and blackness that have prevent- ed blacks from knowing themselves." A leading figure in the movement for a new multicultural American literary canon, she explains that "American literature is inchoherent without the contribution of Afric- an Americans." Readings from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Beloved and her most recent "Jazz" show how Morrison returns to the pain of slavery and segregation to restore wholeness to the black psyche. "The past," Morrison observes, "is more infinite than the future...It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it, that paralyzes growth."
RENTAL FEE $ .00 27 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
CONVERSATIONS WITH GORBACHEV 056784
This program offers the only in-depth interview with Mikhail Gorbachev since he was removed as leader of the former Soviet Union. Leading russian scholar and Princeton University professor Stephen Cohen's conversations with Gorbachev range widely from Gorbachev's rise to power in the Soviet system and developments under his leadership to the breakup of the Soviet Union and events in Russia since 1991. Many subjects are explored, including Gorbachev's own biography, the nature of his reforms, his role in ending the Cold War, and his assessments of Boris Yeltsin's leadership, and the U.S./Russian relations since 1991.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 90 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: FILMS FOR THE HUMANITIES, INC.
COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR PART 03 039132
Cooperation is the most pervasive and continuous of all social prob- lems. Teachers must understand the cooperative process, model it and raise it to the level of pupil awareness. By doing so they give pup- ils the power to extend beyond themselves and to accomplish large tasks.
RENTAL FEE $ 10.00 9 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: SCIENCE RESEARCH ASSOC., INC.
COOPERATIVE LEARNING 057116
Participants will engage in hands--on activities exemplifying cooperative learning in the math classroom. The focus of this session is on techniques and exercises which can be readily adapted for immediate implementation in the classroom.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
COPING WITH CONFLICT 056981
Twelve programs about classroom management with Discipline Author Marvin Verbal. 100 dramatic classroom scenes in which the first five are on key subjects. They show ways in which to prevent discipline problems.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 59 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: UNKNOWN TELECONFERENCE SOURCES
COPING WITH LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS 057042
Sarah Sweeny, psyciatric nurse practitioner at UWMC and UW School of Nursing clinical faculty member, and Nicholas Ward, M.D., UW professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, discuss how major life changes can affect health, strategies for coping with stress, and how to know when it's time to seek help for depression.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
COPING WITH LIFE'S UPS AND DOWNS 057076
Discusses how to deal with the ups and downs people experience throughout their lives.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 30 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
COPING WITH STRESS 055590
Maintaining good health and learning to consciously relax are two key ways to manage stress. First, however, stressors must be identified. This program shows how to identify major stressors, recognize symptoms of stress, incorporate behavioral changes as a coping strategy, and avoid potential sources of stress. The importance of a positive atti- tude is emphasized.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 12 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: AIMS MEDIA, INC.
COPYRIGHT & COPY WRONGS: AN INTRO. TO THE 1976 COPYRIGHT LAW 200100

RENTAL FEE $ .00 0 min.
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COPYRIGHT IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM 057151
With a distinguished panel of experts, this teleconference describes the new copyright laws, discusses the implications for libraries, archives, and educational institutions as they attempt to comply with the new laws, and discusses strategies for the community as it engages in the ongoing studies required by the law and confronts pending data base legislation.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 180 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
COPYRIGHT LAW 055268
Host-moderator Bill Kurtis, Copyright Lawyer Ivan Bender and Congress- man Robert Kastenmaier examine the copyright issue and how it affects you, the professional educator.
RENTAL FEE $ 7.00 21 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: ASS'N FOR INFO. MEDIA & EQUIP.
COPYRIGHT LAW: WHAT EVERY SCHOOL & PUBLIC LIB. SHOULD KNOW 055542
Technology now makes it possible, through the creation of the VCR, for each of us to act as a video laboratory. New transmission systems, satellite delivery and cable television all have their place in im- proving access. But one thing should remain clear: if we forget about the copyright interest of the creator, this technology may result in diminishing the number of individuals or corporations who will devote their time, money and energy to create the one ingredient upon which technology is built -- the need to have something to perform. This tape reviews the guidelines set forth by Congress when it created the current copyright laws.
RENTAL FEE $ .00 21 min.
DISTRIBUTOR: CORONET/MTI FILM & VIDEO