Show MOVING PICTURES TO AID IN INSTRUCTION A new plan of oC instruction is now being put in force b by the extension division of or the University under the supervision of Mr Arthur L. L Beeley The new plan comes under the direction direction di dl of the bureau of or visual in in- The Tho aim of or the new bureau is to provide and circulate instructional lantern slides and anti moving mo picture films throughout the following educational edu rational institutions of tho the statA stat public elementary schools public secondary schools colleges private and denominational schools parent parent- teacher associations home and school leagues Y M. M and ancl Y Y W W. CAs CAs CAs CA's C C. As A's clubs libraries mutual improvement improve ment went societies and community cen centers tern The slides entitled America at War comprising nine separate sets purchased last December have been in constant use since their arrival according to Instructor Beeley To date ate they have conveyed a message to people The Salt Lake Lako CIl City public schools alone have exhibited them to a total school population of or The larger part of the bureaus bureau's interest and attention in the matter of visual instruction however howe is in inthe inthe inthe the exploitation of the moving Die ole ture for educational purposes Thu Tho psychological value of this method method oC or teaching is fully established and need only be hinted at b by a reference reference reference refer refer- ence to the well known fact that therace the therace therace race is almost wholly visually and motor minded is Mr l Beeley's Deeler's estimate estimate esti esti- mate of the plan The bureau is undertaking a rawer extensive experiment in the matter of or supplementing classroom room instruction instruction instruction tion with moving pictures A number num ber of different agencies including the bureau of Commercial cs the bureau of educational e extension exten exten- tenSIon ten ten- sion slon the bureau of mines and ancI mi nu numerous others have been car canvassed assed se seand and some films have alread already besu secured se cured from them The rhe plan of the bureau is as follows follows fol Coi fol- fol lows Some feet of film will willbe willbe be he grouped into a series of or reel five-reel programs Each week for five or six weeks weel two of these programs will start on a itinerary film which will take in about fifty of the largest educational edu and organizations organization's in the central part of the stat About third one-third of oC the programs will willbe willbe be circulated free of all charge except except except ex ex- transportation tion costs the time r remainder re re- remainder will bear beara a vcr very small rental fee of per program Preliminary arrangements have been completed and about feet of film has alrea already y reached the department tI tl is thought that by hy bythe bythe hythe the latter part of this month the new project will be well under wa way The bureau has already alread conducted two demonstrations for the benefit of Jf f school officers one in the Wasatch school and the other in a local mutual mu mu- lual improvement association These Thes preliminary demonstrations were highly successful it is said and re revealed revealed some sonic astonishing ties |