15252. Wax, Amy (27:54)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Wax, Amy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 88, Dean James Shanahan interviews Amy Wax, who recently visited IU Bloomington as a guest of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

15255. Wayne Stidham

Date:
2016-08-31
Main contributors:
Indiana University
Summary:

15256. We Choose: Scarcity & Social Decision Making (22:23)

Date:
1982
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 2 from the Agency for Instructional Television series Give & Take, an educational program on economics designed for grades 8-10.

15257. We Decide (Social Decision Making) (20:26)

Date:
1978
Main contributors:
National Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 3 of Trade-offs, a series in economic education for nine to thirteen year-olds that consists of fifteen 20-minute television/film programs and related materials. Using dramatizations and special visuals, the series considers fundamental economic problems relevant to everyday life. In its first year, Trade-offs was used by approximately 500,000 students and their teachers in about 25.000 fifth and sixth grade classrooms. This more than quadrupled the amount of teaching of economics as a subject. Trade-offs was produced under the direction of AIT by the Educational Film Center (North Spring-field. Virginia), The Ontario Educational Communications Authority, and public television station KERA, Dallas. Programs were available on film, videocassette, and broadcast videotape. Trade-offs was developed cooperatively by the Joint Council on Economic Education, the Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, the Agency for Instructional Television, and a consortium fifty-three state and provincial education and broadcasting agencies.

15258. We Make Anything (34:10)

Date:
1981
Main contributors:
Agency For Instructional Television
Summary:
Episode 7 from the Agency for Instructional Television series American Legacy. Host John Rugg shows the mass production of bicycles and automobiles in order to foster an understanding of the importance of the assembly line in American manucaturing. Highlights the ingredients and techniques of making iron and steel. Discusses the innovations of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.

15260. We Shot the Scout Dog! (02:06)

Date:
2020
Main contributors:
Ron Osgood
Summary:
Phil Zook tells a story about the unfortunate shooting of "Jack," an Army scout dog.