Students practice the various instructional design analysis steps. Introductions theory about the design steps in the instructional systems design process. Students work in teams to design,produce, implement, and evaluate an instructional system for afield site. Each team prepares an instructional design report. Research in learning from television news is reviewed.
Students choose one area that needs to be researched, and they explore that area.
This includes variables in the environment,critical viewing skills, the effects of violence and of specific programming. Each student must plan a research project related to children and television. Contemporary procedures for script writing are addressed. Students learn to use microcomputers for the production of scripts and storyboards. Students study process consulting, consultant skills, roles, and models.