Just Think Mills (tm) Richard G. Mills
Chicago 815/937-0006 Bourbonnais
Writing Experience: Education

richardgmills@ThinkMills.com 54 N. West Avenue   Bourbonnais, IL  60914-1018 (Updated: 112202)

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AudioVisual with print
Free-lance (1976-present)
  • Instructional Dynamics Incorporated (Chicago)
        標rote outlines for 14 workbook lessons with cassette scripts
        標rote workbook activities
        標rote cassette teaching scripts (for young adults at 2nd-grade reading level)
  • Imperial International Learning (Kankakee)
        標rote 24 activity sheets and 12 cassette scripts for reading program
        標rote 12 humorous short stories, 24 coordinated activity sheets, and 12 humorous cassette
          scripts to teach them

    Full-time

  • Society For Visual Education, Inc. [SVE] (Chicago, 1974-76)
        Writer/Producer
        筆ultiplication: Rewrote and produced (including recording and mixing) 8 sound filmstrips
        キWrote and produced 16 cassette scripts and 8 response cards
        キInvented a low-level and advanced game for multiplication
        キWorked out details on a multiplication algorithm game
        キHelped plan and oversee development of module
        疋ivision: Wrote and produced (including recording and mixing 6 sound filmstrips
        キWrote and produced 12 cassette scripts and 6 response cards
        キHelped plan and oversee development of module
        筆etric: Wrote and produced 4 sound filmstrips
        キInvented a game for learning metric symbols
        キHelped plan and oversee development of module

        Average number of scripts written and produced: four/month


        Project Director
        筆atter-and-Energy:
    Researched and developed science module
        キCompiled a 17-page new-product proposal
        キStudied 10 science textbooks for a correlation report
        キPrepared an estimated external cost budget for the module
        キPrepared an estimated manufacturing budget for the module
        キDeveloped and wrote 4 sound filmstrips with audio follow-ups
        キSelected artists, photographer, music, sound effects, and on-screen and voice-over actors
        キOversaw and approved art, photography, and typesetting
        キDeveloped, designed, and oversaw artist's rendering of "conservation of matter & energy" poster
        キDirected recording and mix
        キTested module components with grade-school children

    Free-lance (prior to 1976)
        標orked on filmstrip scripts for and sold a filmstrip story at 3rd-grade level to
          Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Print only
    Free-lance (1976-present)

  • Quarasan, Inc. (Chicago)
        標rote 7th-grade & 8th-grade Earth Science chapters plus several cross-discipline activities for
          Glencoe Press textbook series
  • The H. M. Rowe Company (Baltimore)
        標rote 10 4-page specialized vocabulary pamphlets
        標rote lead article for Rowe's business educators' newsletter
  • [For future publication]
        標rote college vocabulary text/workbook
        標riting programed-learning punctuation text/workbook
        標riting color-coded "grammar made easy" text/workbook
        標rote 2 children's story books (one with 2 songs)
  • Society for Visual Education (Chicago)
        標rote various activity sheets and teachers' manuals for Olympics, mystery, sci-fi, etc., filmstrips
        標rote 2 nuclear-war filmstrips
        標rote other activity sheets sets with teachers' guides
  • Career World Children's Magazines
        標rote articles for several issues
        標rote column for one year

    Full-time

  • Benefic Press (Westchester, Illinois, 1971-72)
        Managing Editor, Science Department
        膝host-wrote a guidance textbook for junior high
        紐ewrote two art textbooks for fourth and sixth grades