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Day by Day: Do they use whiteboards in schools?
Sat, 25 Feb 2006

Somewhere in the mountain of newspapers that spy at me from across the room are flyers for locker storage optimizers -- from the same sorts of companies who will sell you 'space age' systems for your home closets. I'm talking magnetic clip-on shelving units with optional baskets and dividers and digital calendars. For some reason though, that sort of stuff doesn't hit my organization and office supply fetish, but it does make me wonder what school lockers are like today. Modern high-school engineering as it were.

With corporate-America getting forever stronger, have they switched schools over to whiteboards or do they still use our beloved green and blackboards? I have to admit -- when getting into trouble (quite a lot in my day :) and being assigned to sponge cleaning duty, I used to admire the slick clean black-oblivion of a freshly wiped blackboard - the same way carjocks admire the almost feminine curve of a porche's side panel. I used to love heading out with my mom to acquire new school supplies - a pencil case, some new binders with James Bondian contraptions for holding pens - even a new ruler. Baby.

I bet some percentage of you are looking at the screen and thinking nerd! but school equipment fetish (S.E.F.) is a widespread phenomena, so maybe you see yourself in the reflectoin of your cathode ray tube (er, liquid crystal display, you yuppy!) I guess the only way to really bew a nerd now is to set your command shell backgrounds to blue and text to white, just to relive the Amiga days.

Edit:

[12:50:10] [Matt-] skeezix: Here in the UK we have whiteboards and some
                   classrooms even have "interactive whiteboards" which have
                   a projector on them and they can send input to a PC or
                   laptop much like a touchscreen.
[13:04:24] [skeezix] matt -- really? wow, crazy :)
[13:04:46] [skeezix] I remember in music class, the teach had a handle with 5
                     chalk-holders on it, so it could draw the music bar
                     nicely :P
[13:04:55] [Memph] hahahaha
[13:04:57] [Memph] I remember that
[13:05:03] [Memph] and yeah
[13:05:12] [Memph] we have those touchscreen whiteboards at our school as well
[13:05:23] [Memph] Polyvision, I believe it's called

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