SLJ's Multimedia Buyers' Directory: Education

Video

Tell Me Why: Computers. video. 31 min. with tchr's. guide. TMW Media. #K647. $19.95.

Gr 6-12 –Answers questions asked about computers, such as: What can you do with a computer? What is a "Motherboard? What is a computer file?

Tell Me Why: Internet. video. 27 min. with tchr's. guide. TMW Media. #K648. $19.95.

Gr 6-12–Covers questions about the Internet such as: What is an Internet server? What is HTML? What does a hyperlink do?

Video

Charge It! Credit Card Secrets. video. 23 min. (closed captioned). with tchr's. guide. Learning Seed. ISBN 0-917159-02-0. $89.

Gr 7 Up–How to find and use the credit cards best suited to your needs.

Growing Your Money (The Pioneer Living Series). video. 13 min. (closed captioned). with student handout. Pioneer Living Corp. #206A. $19.95.

Gr 9 Up –Tips on becoming self-sufficient and taking steps to strengthen your finances. Includes strategies for preparing for college and retirement.

Major Purchases (The Pioneer Living Series). video. 13 min. (closed captioned). with student handout. Pioneer Living Corp. #206B. $19.95.

Gr 9 Up–Tips for building credit history, buying a car, insurance, and a home.

Merchandising: The Store as Persuasion. video. 24 min. (closed captioned). with tchr's. guide. Learning Seed. ISBN 0-917159-18-7. $89.

Gr 7 Up–Learn how retailers use science, detailed shopper observation, and applied psychology to sell goods.

Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun. video. 40 min. with tchr's. guide online. Media Education Foundation. ISBN 1-893521-73-7. $125; also avail. DVD, ISBN 1-893521-74-5: $125.

Gr 11 Up–Tracks the development of the PR industry from early efforts to win popular American support for WWI to the role of crisis management in diffusing controversies. Exposes and analyzes tools public relations professionals use to shift our perceptions.

Why You Buy: 21st Century Advertising. video. 23 min. (closed captioned). with tchr's. guide. Learning Seed. ISBN 0-917159-17-9. $89.

Gr 7 Up–Looks at person-to-person selling, direct mail, ads and emotions, and TV commercials to reveal how they sneak under our persuasion radar.

Video

No Bloodshed: The High Road to Understanding Driving Danger. video. approx. 25 min. Blue Canyon Prods. #BCV107. $19.95 (+ $4).

Gr 7-12–Illustrates the potential dangers of driving by using unusual physics demonstrations, humor, crash tests, and interviews with medical and auto engineering professionals.

Video

Autism and the New Law: Resources for Treatment, Hope for a Cure. video. 40 min. (closed captioned). Edvantage Media. ISBN 0-9646168-8-2. $49.95.

Designed to help parents, educators, and health care professionals better understand Autism and similar diagnoses such as Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) and Asperger's Syndrome. Learn about the components of The Advancement of Pediatric Autism Research Act.

Character Education: A Trainer's Perspective. video. 24 min. with tchr's. guide. Prod. by Promedion Prods. Dist. by Lucerne Media. $99.

Features educators and trainers who share their experience from the field on effective methods of integrating Character Education into the curriculum to reduce violence.

Developing Minds Multimedia Library. 22 videos. approx. 18 hrs. (closed captioned). WGBH Boston. ISBN 1-57807-643-9. $499.95 ser.

Offers the tools and strategies to help parents and teachers better understand and manage each child's learning profile. The materials are based on the educational framework of Dr. Mel Levine, developmental-behaviorial pediatrician, professor and author, and his colleagues at the All Kinds of Minds Institute. The series addresses differences in attention, memory, language, neuromotor function, social cognition, temporal-sequential ordering, spatial ordering and higher order cognition.

Video

Five and Six-Year-Olds. video. 21 min. (closed captioned). with tchr's. guide. Learning Seed. ISBN 0-917159-30-6. $89.

Gr 9 Up–Join Tyler, Danielle, Kaliee, Matthew, and friends to explore the multiple intelligences of children ages five and six.

How Boys and Girls Differ: The First Six Years. video. 21 min. (closed captioned). with tchr's. guide. Learning Seed. ISBN 0-917159-30-6. $89.

Gr 9 Up–What are the real differences between how boy and girls develop?

Parental Involvement Curriculum: Teaching Your Young Child. 2 videos. 25 min. ea. with tchr's. guide. Educational Activities. #3089. $169 set, $89 ea. also avail. In Spanish. Includes: Play to Learn; Steps to Reading. Gr 11 Up–Provides an opportunity for parents to learn skills that will help their children be more successful in school.

Prints

Child Development 2: See How They Grow. 8 prints. 17"x22". Meridian Education. #29136. $69.95.

Gr 10 Up –Posters include Physical Development, Emotional Development, Intellectual Development, Social Development, Character Development, Language and Communication, Disability Awareness, and Family Strengthening.

Video

ASVAB Review. 4 videos. 9 hrs. with study guide. Video Aided Instruction. ISBN 1-57385-033-0. $159.95 ser.

Gr 11 Up–Potential armed services enlistees will become familiar with every question type, solve practice problems, and learn test-taking strategies.

GED Series. 6 sets ea. with 1-2 videos. with study guide. Video Aided Instruction. $439.70 ser., $79.95 ea. set. Includes: GED Language Arts, Reading; GED Language Arts, Writing; GED Language Arts, Mathematics; GED Language Arts, Science; GED Language Arts, Social Studies; GED Language Arts, Calculator Essentials.

Gr 10 Up –A complete review for the exam.

Pre-GED Series. 5 sets ea. with 2 videos. Video Aided Instruction. $399.75 ser., $79.95 ea. set. Includes: Pre-GED Language Arts, Reading (ISBN 1-57385-041-1); Pre-GED Language Arts, Writing (ISBN 1-57385-042-X); Pre-GED Language Arts, Mathematics (ISBN 1-57385-043-8); Pre-GED Language Arts, Science (ISBN 1-57385-044-6); Pre-GED Language Arts, Social Studies (ISBN 1-57385-045-4).

Gr 9 Up–A basics skills program to start preparing for the new GED.

Up Your Grades (Set). 2 videos. 3 hrs. with workbook. Gary R. Gruber. $89 (+ $8 s/h).

Gr 7-12–Verbal and math strategies for all standardized tests (SAT, GRE, SSAT, etc.) and for life.