COMMUNICATIONS
SUPPLEMENTARY COURSES AND RESOURCES
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1. WRITING AND JOURNALISM
Textbooks and Reference Books
The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors
Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK; or Oxford University Press, Customer Service Dept., 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513, USA. [Comment: This is a small but very handy dictionary for people who write articles or proofread, and who need to check odd items like abbreviations and special spellings not easy to find in other dictionaries.]
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H.W. Fowler
Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX26DP, UK; or Oxford University Press, Customer Service Dept., 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513, USA. [Comment: This dictionary favors British usage and is mainly a reference tool for the very serious writer. A better reference for Americans is A Dictionary of American-English Usage based on Fowler's Modern English Usage by Margaret Nicholson. Oxford University Press, New York, 671 pp., 1957, LCCN 57005560. Price about 5. These types of books are dust catchers as they are used very seldom, so you should try to borrow as needed rather than buy. Another very good but very expensive special reference book for checking small technical details of English language usage and style is the Chicago Manual of Style.]
A Christian Writer's Manual of Style edited by Bob Hudson and Shelley Townsend
A Zondervan Publication, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49530, USA, 1988, ISBN 0-310-35021-2. [Comment: This small paperback contains a lot of general helpful information about punctuation, capitalization, using words in context, abbreviations, etc., as well as being a fairly good standard when writing for the Christian market.]
Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works with Words by Bruce Ross-Larson
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10110, USA, 1982, 108 pp., ISBN 0-393-30268-7. [Comment: This short paperback focuses on common mistakes made by writers, and contains lots of helpful tips on how to improve your writing, with emphasis on clarity and simplicity. Good for writers and editors.]
The Elements of Style (Third Edition) by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White.
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022, USA, 1979, 92 pp., ISBN 0-02-418190-0. [Comment: A concise style manual covering elementary rules of grammar and composition, commonly misused words and expressions, and helpful guidelines for successful writing. Recommended for writers and editors.]
Tapes and Videos
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Learning Word for Windows 6.0, Advanced (video, 90 minutes)
[Comment: As with most software teaching materials, this video is already dated because a newer version of Word has already come out. Still, it helps students learn some of the main features of Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0, most of which will apply to Word for Windows 7.0 as well. It is recommended that you view it while at your computer so you can try the different customization techniques as you watch. There is a learning disk accompanying the video that contains the various files referred to in the video.]
Computer Programs
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
There are a number of different computer programs that can be used to create documents. Some are very inexpensive simple word processing programs while others are very expensive word processing programs that have built-in spelling correction, thesaurus, multiple document handling capacity, numerous fonts, art and graphic handling capacities. These sophisticated programs are very expensive to purchase. However, many institutions have them available to learn on. Since the CVC generally favors programs written for the Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 platform, we recommend that students use programs written to operate under Windows, such as Microsoft Word. (Versions of WordPerfect 6.x and 7.0 are also available for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.)
American Heritage Talking Dictionary (CD)
By SoftKey International; phone: (800) 227-5609 or (617) 494-1200. Priced at about $50 (US). [Comment: This is a top-rated computerized dictionary that includes pronunciations of words. It allows not only searches for words in definitions, but also lets you specify word searches to help solve word puzzles and do schoolwork. You will need to have suitable computer hardware (a CD-ROM drive) to run it. It will run without a sound card, but in that case the word pronunciations are not available.]
Random House Unabridged Dictionary (Second edition)
This is an electronic version of a popular English dictionary and contains 315,000 words, 2000 pieces of line art but has no atlas. This dictionary favors current usage over standard usage, so words like "wannabe" and "carjacking" are included. It will make anagrams from letters or words you give it. It does not pronounce words for you as does the American Heritage Talking Dictionary. The cost is about $79.00 (US).
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2. PHOTOGRAPHY
Textbooks and Reference Books
(No listing available at this time.)
Tapes and Videos
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Learning Photography by Kodak (video, 60 minutes)
[Comment: Several classes are produced by Kodak to train aspiring photographers. This video includes two such classes: "Learning Photography" and "The Language of Light." These classes are simple, well illustrated and to the point.]
Computer Programs
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Adobe Photoshop by Adobe Systems Inc.
[Comment: This is a very sophisticated computer based "photo lab" for working with digitized photos. Students serious about photography and photo use in publications should learn this or other programs of a similar level (such as PhotoPaint by Corel, Inc.). Photoshop version 2.5 or higher is recommended.]
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3. AUDIO RECORDING
Textbooks and Reference Books
(No listing available at this time.)
Tapes and Videos
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Computer Programs
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
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4. VIDEO PRODUCTION
Textbooks and Reference Books
Hedgecoe on Video: A Complete Creative and Technical Guide to Making Videos by John Hedgecoe
Hamlyn-Octopus Illustrated Publishing, Michelin House, 81 Fulham Road, London SW3 6RB, UK.
Television Production (Second Edition) by Alan Wurtzel
McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Create Your Own Stage Props by Jacquie Govier
Prentice-Hall, Inc., USA.
Film Directing--Shot by Shot by Steven D. Kratz
Michael Wiese Productions, 3960 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Suite #331, Studio City, CA 91604, USA; phone: (818) 905-6376; in conjunction with Focal Press, a division of Butterworth Publishers, 80 Montvale Avenue, Stoneham, MA 0180, USA; phone: (617) 438-8464 (USA).
Tapes and Videos
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Using a Camcorder with Bill Bixley (video, 38 minutes)
[Comment: Tips on how to give a professional look to home videos with a camcorder and a bit of preparation.]
Computer Programs
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
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5. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Textbooks and Reference Books
(No listing available at this time.)
Tapes and Videos
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Computer Programs
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
WinTutor 95 (CD-ROM)
Softkey Multimedia Inc., One Athenaum Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; phone: (800) 227-5609. [Comment: Contains four self-paced training programs to teach Microsoft Windows 95 to beginners and advanced Windows users.]
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6. PUBLISHING AND PRINTING
Textbooks and Reference Books
(No listing available at this time.)
Tapes and Videos
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Computer Programs
(No listing available at this time. Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
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7. SIGN LANGUAGE
Textbooks and Reference Books
American Sign Language Dictionary by Martin L.A. Sternberg (Revised Edition)
HarperPerennial (Write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022, USA. ISBN 0-06-273275-7.) [Comment: This is an abridged edition of American Sign Language, and contains more than 4,400 signs and 6,600 illustrations.]
The Joy of Signing: The Illustrated Guide for Mastering Sign Language and the Manual Alphabet by Lottie L. Riekehof
Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri 65802, USA, 1987; ISBN 0-88243-520-5. [Comment: A video tape of the same title is listed below.]
AMESLAN -- An Introduction to American Sign Language by Louie J. Fant, Jr.
Joyce Media Inc., 8753 Shirley Avenue, PO Box 458, Northridge, CA 91328, USA; phone: (213) 885-7181. [Comment: Also available upon request is a free catalog describing 14 films in color and sign. Each film is approximately five minutes long and they go with the book and are very useful for beginners. (These are also available on video. See below.)]
A Basic Course in Manual Communication-- Communication Skills Program (1971 Revised Edition) by Terence J. O'Rourke
Published by NAD, National Association for the Deaf, 814 Thayer Avenue, Silver Springs, MD 20910, USA. [Comment: This book has a very good 734-word vocabulary and is reasonably priced.]
Signing Exact English (SEE2) by Gustason Gerilee, Donna Pfetzing and Ester Zawolkow
Modern Signs Press Inc., 1980, PO Box 1181, Los Alamitos, CA 90720, USA; phone: (213) 596-8548. [Comment: This book contains approximately 400 illustrated signs.]
Sign Language for Everyone--A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf by Cathy Rice
Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee (1977).
Sign Language Made Simple -- A Complete Manual for Learning Sign Language in Sentence Form, by Edgar D. Lawrence
Gospel Publishing House, Springfield, Missouri 65802, USA. [Comment: This book contains over 3800 clear illustrations. Lots of Christian and religious vocabulary is included as well as over 600 complete sentences.]
Talk with Your Hands by David Watson
Published by NAD, National Association for the Deaf, 814 Thayer Avenue, Silver Springs, MD 20910, USA, (1963).
Tapes and Videos
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
Thinking Deaf by Dr. Cathy Rice (video, 120 minutes each)
[Comment: This video teaches how to understand the deaf and how to relate to them. It helps hearing people learn to think as a deaf person would think. Dr. Rice is a Christian, and has a ranch in Texas where she teaches about 600 students a year.]
Sign Language for Everyone, Part 1 and 2 by Dr. Cathy Rice (video)
[Comment: Excellent classes on how to communicate with the deaf. The only known class that deals with Christian witnessing sign language.]
Say It with Sign series (video, 35 minutes each)
[Comment: Sign language classes presenting signing in a very natural way with easy-to-follow instructions and explanations. Especially good for those interested in working with the deaf. Good for younger viewers as well.]
Beginning American Sign Language (video, 57 minutes)
[Comment: This is very good as a beginners' course with simple words, sentences and stories to follow in sign language.]
The Joy of Signing by Lottie L. Riekehof (video)
Joy Enterprises, Inc., PO Box 10376, Arlington, VA 22210-1376, USA.
AMESLAN -- An Introduction to American Sign Language by Louie J. Fant, Jr. (video)
[Comment: Available upon request is a free catalog describing 14 films in color and sign. Each film is approximately five minutes long and they go with the AMESLAN book and are very useful for beginners. (These are also available on video.)]
Computer Programs
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
American Sign Language (CD-ROM)
HarperCollins Interactive (HarperCollins Publishers), about $70. (Package costs more if a copy of American Sign Language Dictionary is included.) [Comment: Contains 2200 video clips of signs, learning games, animations and fingerspelling. It is an expensive program and needs at least a 20-MHz, 486 computer with Windows and 8MB or more of memory, 256-color monitor, double-speed or more CD-ROM drive, Windows-compatible, mouse and sound card.]
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8. FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Textbooks and Reference Books
Colloquial Japanese
H.D.B. Clarke and Motoko Hamamura, Routledge Publishers; 344 pp. and one sound cassette ISBN 0415045444
Also available in the Colloquial series:
Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, French, Greek, Gujarti, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Panjabi, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Solene, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh.
Study Courses
CHRISTIAN LIGHT EDUCATION
COM CLE-01 Speedy Spanish
Course Contents: (Uses Speedy Spanish Books 1 and 2 available from CLE.) [Comment: This is an elementary course in Spanish with tapes. Each book provides a one-year course in Spanish, 30 lessons and 6 review lessons that are pretty much self-teaching and somewhat self-correcting with the tapes. Students wanting to move through the course rapidly could probably cover the material more quickly. The study pattern followed is: learn new vocabulary on Monday, practice reading and speaking on Tuesday, fill in or match pictures with Spanish words on Wednesday, memorize Bible verses on Thursday, and review on Friday. Flash cards are printed in the books.]
Credits: 4
COM CLE-02 Spanish I
Course Contents: (CLE Spanish Lightunits 1-10) [Comment: Not as well illustrated as Speedy Spanish and a bit more workbook-textbook in approach, but provides a basic introductory course to learning Spanish. Some tapes are provided, but generally students would need help from a native speaker to learn correct pronunciation and to practice Spanish.]
Credits: 4
Tapes and Videos
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of tapes and videos available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
The Joy of Talking German (video, 60 minutes)
Learn the basics of German, how to get around, etc.
Computer Programs
(Ask your CVC Instruction Coordinator for a listing of computer programs available through your local Family and Education Department Resource Center.)
TriplePlayPlus Spanish (Windows CD-ROM)
Living Language multimedia program by Random House/Syracuse Language Systems Program, about $100. [Comment: This is an interactive program that has games and conversation practice that make learning a language fun and interesting. This series has what is called "speech recognition" technology that "listens" to students say the word, phrase or sentence in the foreign language and tells them if they said it right or not. This CD-ROM can accommodate different age groups and different levels of skill. A small Living Language dictionary/phrasebook comes with the program as well as a microphone to plug into a computer sound card (you'll need a sound card to run it).]
Other titles in this series include:
TriplePlayPlus Japanese (Windows CD-ROM)
TriplePlayPlus French (Windows CD-ROM)
TriplePlayPlus English (Windows CD-ROM)
TriplePlayPlus German (Windows CD-ROM)
TriplePlayPlus Hebrew (Windows CD-ROM)
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