Shipping department of the Visual Education
Department.

One class observing another with the help
of the Visual Education Department.

Education . . .
Another service which, while not actually part of the
School of Education, works in very close harmony with it,
is the Bureau of Visual Instruction. It is part of the Exten-
sion Division of the University, but due to the influences of
Dr. W. A. Wittich, Bureau director and associate professor
of education, on the one hand, and Dean Fowlkes on the
other, it is connected intimately with the school. Dean
Fowlkes' wish to more closely coordinate work between
different departments of the University has been realized in
the relation of the Bureau to other departments on campus
and to organizations outside the University. The bureau,
best in the country and after which many others have been
modeled, functions in several important ways. Its on-campus
service includes making available to University classes the
best of obtainable films to aid in instruction. Besides this,
courses in the effective use of visual materials in instruction
and a course in the production of visual materials (the only
course having as great a scope in the country) are offered.
These courses are attended by people from all over the
nation. Besides the work on campus, Assistant Director C.
F. Schuller conducts the course in the effective use of visual
materials in various cities throughout the state, thus pro-
viding the opportunity for busy elementary and secondary
school teachers to study and make use of an effective edu-
cational technique.
Besides these services, the Bureau's entire library of 7,500
copies of 1,800 different films is made available to schools
and colleges throughout the state, together with a curricu-
lum-consulting service which helps the schools decide which
films would be most advantageously shown to various classes.
The Bureau also makes films of its own, every process of
production from script-writing to film-cutting being done
within the Bureau. The making of these films may be
financed by the University, by the state, or by private inter-
ests, mainly industrial groups. Recent films done by the
Bureau include a film on rural education and a state centen-
nial film.
By these services, the Bureau contributes much to the
total achievement of the School of Education. With all the
agencies connected with the school, there is a spirit of
harmony and cooperation in interdepartmental relations
which assures their most effective functioning. With the fine
staff and curriculum which are now part of the school, con-
tinued progress can be made, with the result that education
is made more effective, and more meaningful to man.

Film "stacks of the Department of
Visual Education.

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