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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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icipants practicing their learning,will warm the hearts of telephonemen and women. Here are some of the various class-room uses to which teachers haveadapted the Telezonia material: Language and Focabulary Writing letters, stories, poems and songsabout using the telephone.Spelling and use of such words as partyline, dial tone, mouthpiece, receiver, sig-nal, number plate, switchboard, operator,directory, emergency. Alphabetizing: Looking up names in the telephone di-rectory ; making ones own personal di-rectory of friends and tradespeople thechild or his parents might call. Picture-book project: Making picture-books from magazine il-lustrations of people using the telephoneand of telephone equipment. Sand-table project: Such as stringing a telephone line be-tween houses and a central office. Citizenship: How to be good party line neighbors andknowing how to use the telephone in anemergency. A telephone man and a teacherwere chatting in a California class- 1953 Telezonia and the j Rs 59
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School children and a telephone company representative join forces to explain anddemonstrate the Telezonia project to student teachers at a teacher training ijistitntion room while waiting for the childrento assemble. The former remarked:Looks as though you can use Tele-zonia for about everything but arith-metic. A while later, during theclass discussion, the teacher asked onechild: Sally, if it costs $1.65 to callfrom here, say, to Boise, Idaho, howmany nickels, dimes and quarterswould you put into a coin telephoneto pay with the fewest coins? Asthe child replied, the teacher glancedtoward the telephone man with a cer-tain gleam in her eye. One classroom in Wisconsin useslong distance routes, furnished at theteachers request by the WisconsinTelephone Company, for teachinggeography. A child places a pre-tend call from Milwaukee to NewYork or San Francisco while anotherchild traces the route on a blackboardmap. There is even a make-believeswitchboard operated by one of thegirls, and th

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