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chaos: Yeah, a random topic indeed.
Rubedo: You notice how Elementary schools have to use chalkboards? Even though the sound can be VERY annoying sometimes, and if you get the thought of someone scratching the chalkboard (I hope I got that thought into yer head), it can be very annoying.
chaos: Anyways, why can't they switch over to those white boards that use markers, like the ones in University? :D
In my school there is a lot of variation between the classrooms.
Some have whiteboards, some blackboards.
This all helps to make the day more fun and exciting for students! :)
In my high school they had all the white dry erase boards. And I graduated there almost 9 years ago (:() I think your school is behind the times!
White boards are more expensive and back then my school couldn't afford them. But now we're filling our school with white boards, I don't think I see a classroom anywhere with a chalkboard.
In some of the classrooms in my old school, they were too cheap to get an actual blackboard, so they just painted part of the wall black, put some wood around it to make it look real, and there we have it.
chaos: Beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
They still use chalkboards in some of my University classes...
They got rid of all the chalkboards at my primary school in about 1997. Although when I got to high school most of the classes still had chalkboards. Chalkboards are more fun though, because you can use the eraser to beat/wipe chalk dust on people.
When i was in elementary they ahd to remove all the chalkboards. There was a popular craze going around with the kids. They thought that you were cool if you snorted chalk.
chaos: I remember the first time I snorted chalk... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Lekana
Yeah then they changed to white boards and all those kids went crazy for huffing dry erase markers.
The fun in scratching chalkboards, it makes my nails feel horrible but it's cool.
Man, the noise! THE NOISE! :weep:
My old high school had a mixture of both the white and blackboards. However, I was surprised that they got the white eraser boards. I mean, they were trying to get a school bus for nearly 14 years. To my knowledge, they still don't have one. I just believe that they're to cheap to buy one. They'd rather build another office for records. They've already got two.
There are only a few classes in my school that use White Boards. All the other teachers just complain about the chalk dust. :)
100% of my college classes are taught on a chalkboard. I don't mind it.
Three years when I went back to my primary school for the work experience program, I noticed that all the boards were still chalkboards.
My high school began switching over to whiteboards about 4 years ago. By the time I graduated, I think every room had a whiteboard in it.
Middle School through High School all used white boards. University uses white boards + powerpoint presentation.
My cousin's elementary school uses white boards. I think RSL is right about your school being behind the times.
For some bizarre reason, Science and Math rooms have white board, and History and English rooms have chalk boards. xD
ok, what's with the two ppl thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trumpet Thief
anyways, guess what? there are these new things out called smart boards. there awesome. chalkboards suck.
Smartboards are cool, my old High School has one.
Rubedo: As you can see, we are schizophrenic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heero Yuy NWZC
chaos: *waves*
Albedo: *laughs maniacally*
Trowa: *sits and stares and sits and stares*
They have more chalkboards at Arkansas Tech University than they do at my school. There's several in just one of the ATU buildings whereas at PSD I can think of one. Which was my fourth grade classroom. We got to clap the erasers if we were good!
ok. i am too dumb to know what schizophrenic is. what is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trumpet Thief
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Originally Posted by Heero Yuy NWZC
Schizophrenia- Mental condition where someone has multiple personalities.
Anyway, My school has mostly chalkboards. Though a few classes have the white ones.
The primary schools around here, mostly still have chalkboards. However the highschools & colleges have whiteboards and the smart boards (the powerpoint ones!). I think the primary schools are just cheap. :(
I've never, ever seen a chalkboard in my life. All schools around here use whiteboards, and thank god for that!
Wow my school is REALLY poor and cheap and we still had whiteboards in every room in all the schools. Hell we ran out of paper durring the year. Several times xD. How sad is that. And Teachers would fight over markers.
None of my classes had blackboards. Some of the classes did in elementery school, but I was never in any of those classes. Since I've been homeschooled since 7th grade, I don't know what the highschools use :confused:
i wish my high school had permanent chalk...
white boards + markers are much better. i had asthma when i was young and chalk dust is a hazard.
Only my primary school had the chalk and it was problematic for people with asthma and other allergies. My middle school and high school (and college) had those white boards with the markers and it's better in my opinion. The thought of scartching a blackboard drives me nuts and touching chalk also gives me weird tendancies (washing my hands over and over again/coughing/sneezing).
Actually, thats Split Personnality Syndrom...Schizophrenia=mental condition where they hear voices, eratic behaviour and sometimes visual halusionations (ok, I can't spell it...).... (sorry, did Psychology at AS level).Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
ANYWAY...ahem...Primary school was all cheap painted blackboards on wood propped up. Secondary School mixture of both white and black boards, College all white boards and Uni all white boards...*phew*.
I like blackboards anyway. I love the smell of chalk.
Kagga:love:
I think in the exam halls of my secondary school, they used chalkboards. They mainly used whiteboards though, and the only time I can remember the frequent use of chalkboards is my old primary school...
I dont like the name blackboard, its green!!! dark green!!! really REALLY dark green!!! cant you people see that!? how can they mistake black for green!? Its madness i tell you!:Oo: or atleast all the chalkboards I've come across are.
And i like whiteboards, if you write on them using spit on your finger its hard to rub out, mix it with some whiteboard marker residue and you have a message that will last for eternity (or untill the board it properly cleaned)
Some are black, though. Atleast they were at my primary school! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke
We had some black ones. Well, more gray I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackmage_nuke
My school's too poor to have all whiteboards XD;; We just hang up a whiteboard on the wall over part of the blackboard and then use the blackboard that isn't covered for something else XD;;
In homeroom, all we use the blackboard for is what's going on during the day, and who owes money/how much money for leaving stuff behind in the classroom o.o;
Ah, right, the newer people wouldn't know about Trumpet Thief and his multiple personalities...Quote:
Originally Posted by Heero Yuy NWZC
All the elementary schools around here have white boards.
Last quarter my university opened up a new building with all this fancy equipment and projectors and stuff. And chalk boards. xD
They're easier to read. The glare on white boards makes me have to wear my glasses.
in my elementary school they had a chalkbored and a dry erase board!
Luxury xP
MY elementary schools all had chalkboards, as did my old middle school. When they built the new one, they put in white boards, which I think suck. My High School used chalkbaords, as have all the classrooms I've been in here at college, but I've mostly been in buildings as old as my father, so I'm not suprised.
elementary is the same as Primary, yes? :3
We had chalk for while in my primary school, I think xD I really cannot remember. I think we had them in the old school.. and when they built the new one It got all new everything.. I think.
We have white boards here in Secondary. God, teachers are so lazy these days, they do everything with powerpoint and just project it onto a white board.
That's exactly how it goes in my school. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Rye
HeHe ...we still have chalkboards...:riiight:Quote:
Originally Posted by RSL
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Originally Posted by kaggski
Meh, whatever. I'm taking Psychology next year so I'll know more about what I'm talking about then. :D
All the classrooms at my school have white boards, and I hate it. I like the way chalk boards look a lot better, for almost no reason at all. I don't like the markers that stink up the room when whiteboards are around either. :(