Wednesday. April 30,1958 University Daily Kansan
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TV Teaching May Be Used Here Soon
Closed-circuit television, already widely used in schools throughout the country, and in medicine and industry, may arrive at KU in the not-too-distant future.
Galen R. Adkins, chairman of the radio-television research committee at KU, said that the radio-TV staff "has the equipment and personnel to accommodate any department that would like to try a pilot experiment with closed-circuit teaching."
"We hope to have additional equipment to equip one or two classrooms with closed-circuit TV next year." he added.
Television is already in use at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Rather than reducing the need for teachers, television would enable teachers, freed from lecturing, to work with smaller student groups. Prof. Adkins said. One teacher using TV could give lectures to several student groups, allowing other teachers to do laboratory or seminar work.
Prof. Adkins explained that TV is already extensively used in a number of colleges and public schools. Television teaching is "past the experimental stage at some places," he said.
Many Uses For TV
Indiana University is about to start using TV to supervise student teachers, Prof. Adkins said, and the University of Texas already uses TV to demonstrate chemistry experiments to laboratory students.
Closed-cireuit TV could also monitor laboratory teaching situations, or could be used to monitor children in nursery schools so student teachers or students of child psychology could observe, he said.
One particular advantage in chemistry work, Prof. Adkins said, is that with TV all the students, instead of only five or six, can get a close-up view of experiments.
Hoch Could Be Center
Members of the radio-TV faculty at KU have had several discussions with various departments of the University to determine possible uses of television here, Prof. Adkins said.
Teaching experiments at present
could be set up in Hoch Auditorium, he added.
Other schools using or experimenting with classroom television include Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Iowa, and the public school systems in Hagerstown, Md., and Evanston township, Ill.
61 To Attend Science Academy
Sixty-one students, faculty anc staff members from KU, the State Geological Survey and the Museum of Natural History will attend the 19th annual meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science Thursday. Friday and Saturday at Ottawa University.
Members of the Academy will study work done by members in the fields of botany, microbiology, chemistry, geography, geology, physics and zoology.
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Official Bulletin
German Ph.D reading examination,
Saturday 9-11 a.m., 314 Fraser. Books
must be turned in to 306 Fraser by
Thursday noon.
TODAY
Sociology Club meeting, 4 p.m. 11 Saturdays
Ericksen, associate professor of sociology,
and John H. Giele, instructor of sociology.
"Are Fraternities and Sororities
Newman Club executive meeting has been canceled.
Jay Janes, 5 p.m., Pine Room, Kansas Union
El Alteneo se reune el Microlesca a las
y media en el Union, para una
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Undergraduate Psychology Club, 7 p.m., Oread Room, Kansas Union, Speaker. M. Erik Wright, professor of clinical psychology, facts and Fieldiq. Everyone welcome.
Joint meeting of El Ateneo, Cercle Francais, Deutsche Verein and Russian Club. 7:30 p.m., Pine Room, Kansas Union.
Intramural Speaking Contest, 7:30 p.m.
102 Strong.
Man and Superman, 8 p.m. University
Tower Music and Dramatic Arts
Building.
THURSDAY
University Women's Club luncheon, 1
program. Business meeting and
lunch, 2:30 p.m.
Poetry Hour, 4 p.m., Music and Browsing Room, Kansas Union. Franklin C. Nellick, associate professor of English, will read 18th century verse.
Section 1 of Speech Potpouri Try-Outs, 4 p.m., Strong Auditorium.
Section 2 of Speech Potpouri Try-Outs., 7:30 p.m., Strong Auditorium
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Sigma Alpha Eta dessert, 7:30 p.m.
Women's Football Club.
Man and Superman, 8 p.m. University Theatre, Music and Dramatic Arts Buildings
Episcopal Evening Prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth Chapel.
FRIDAY
Man and Superman, University Theatre Music and Dramatic Arts Building. 8 p.m.
Episcopal Holy Communion, 7 a.m. St. House,
Canterbury, St. House.
Breakfast follows.
Pharmacy School Picnic To Be Sunday
Museum of Art record concert, 11 a.m.
and 3 p.m. Mendelssohn, Symphony No.
3 in A Minor. Dvorak, Concerto for
Violin in A Minor.
A picnic for students and faculty in the School of Pharmacy will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday sponsored by the KU student division of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
The annual event will be held at Potter Lake picnic grounds and will be preceded by a traditional junior-senior softball game at 2 p.m. The losing class will present the winners with a trophy.
The banded anteater is a small Australian marsupial.
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