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Tuesday, February 2, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Videodiscs in the classroom KU profes direct program for Kansas high school teachers
By Jill Jess
Kansan staff writer
"Message from mission control to space shuttle pilot: Adjust your speed now."
Ron Ausgave the instructions for the shuttle to land slowly. Against the blue sky, the shuttle glided slowly onto the runway.
Then he gave the instructions for the shuttle to land quickly. Again, the shuttle appeared in the sky. This time it came down fast.
Sitting at a computer, Aust, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, can control the space shuttle. At least, a videodisc of the space shuttle.
A videodisc can hold up to 54,000 frames of slides. It can be used as separate pictures or as a movie. The discs are being used at the University of Kansas as part of a program called interactive videodisc instruction.
This month the Board of Regents allotted $24,322 from the Federal Education for Economic Security Act funds to help pay for a videodisc
instruction program for Kansas high school teachers.
school Bill LaShier, professor of curriculum and instruction, and Bill Coll, professor of systematics and ecology, are directing the program. A session this spring will familiarize the high school teachers with the videodisc instruction.
The program uses microcomputers and videodisc players as teaching tools in which a student can call up a certain frame or series of frames by selecting a particular answer on the computer program.
The system is an emerging educational tool that can be used either with the computer or with the disc alone, which can be used in the same way as slides or movies. Videoedite players allow for individual slides to be called up by frame number or for the disc to be rapidly scanned from beginning to end.
Fifteen science teachers from Kansas high schools will be trained this summer to use the system and also will help make slides for the video-
is at kU science museums. The disc will then be copied and made available for use at schools throughout the state.
Mike Hess, chairman of the science department at Lawrence High School, said he had applied to be one of the teachers included in the program. He said he could see a use for videodisc instruction at Lawrence High.
"I would like to use it during class more for just showing slides because the picture quality is so good," he said.
However, he also said he could see using the interactive programs in remedial work or if a student had missed class. He said if a student missed a film, there was really no way to recreate that atmosphere of instruction without taking an extra hour of the teacher's time. But, with the interactive videodisc instruction, the student could work on the program during his own time. Hess said.
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