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[Derrek]

The kids are always stealing the chalk in-between classes. I don't know why they have such a chalk fetish. They're constantly asking me to give them some chalk.

[mysteriousdeltarays]

I hate the dust etc. but I like chalk because you can quickly change colors, for example subject, object pronouns without going through the whole cap on the marker routine.

Also the plastic dust from the markers doesn't just mysteriously vanish. I think that we are all just inhaling large quantities of plastic.

[Ody]

first choice:
black (green) board and white marker.
chalk comes in second.
' just love the way it looks.

[The Great Wall of Whiner]

Here in my hometown, this guy ran for school board. Nobody knew who he has, but he got elected for one reason: his election signs.

They were black, but with white writing on them, drawn as a chalkboard.

Very ingenious indeed!

[coolsage]

I was teaching my uni class last week when a film crew came into the classroom, ostensibly to record for posterity the dynamics of imparting English into little Freshman heads. Unfortunately, the Korean teacher who had used the room before me had written all over the whiteboard with Magic Marker, which of course could not be erased. So while I was writing around the indelible Korean on the board, the TV perception (and my department head came up and congratulated me the next day), was that I was quite fluent in Korean, not only speaking, but writing, and using it in the classroom as well. My fifteen seconds of fame.

[lighthouse1971]

I've worked with chalk, too. The disadvantage for me was the drying out of my fingertips and subsequent flaking and peeling that was not flattering. I just kept a tub of hand cream in the office.

However, you can get multi-coloured chalk and draw great pictures for beginner english classes when helping them to understand a word or concept. I REALLY miss that one BIG advantage. Being able to make a blue river or a green and brown tree is very useful at times.

Yes, both whiteboards and blackboards have their pros and cons.

[igotthisguitar]

Y'all think chalk is bad ??? In the first months i was working, i went through 3-4 pairs of pants destroyed by those oooohhh so colourful ( yes Canadians & Yong Guk saram spell these kinda words with a "U" kids ) red, green & blue marker pens

Guess i enjoy a rather animated teaching style

[VanIslander]

Chalk is great for ex-gymnasts, but it's no way to stay neat.

I wipe off the whiteboard with a tissue between classes, getting it good and clean, a satisfying practice coming from someone not known for tidiness. Maybe it's the sense of order restored after classroom chaos. I dunno. But...

A clean whiteboard sure looks good!

[joe_doufu]

White boards have the advantage that you can shine an overhead projector or video projector onto them, and then draw little moustaches and goatees on the pictures of people you don't like.

[Hater Depot]

I wish I had a chalkboard or a whiteboard. Our school sunk a lot of money into building high-tech classrooms. Mine was designed as a seminar room, though, so I only have an electronic whiteboard. Combine it's, um, quirks with the huge size of the room and it's impossible to write much on it that would be legible to all the kids.

Every day I wish for a whiteboard, chalkboard, anything different.

[Hwajangsil Ajumma]

Aaah, chalk. Such a dichotomy. So evocative of my days at Eton. The wonderfully dry aroma redolent of joyous childhood spankings; the mellifluous song of fingernail on blackboard.

But absolutely rubbish for sniffing, and Lord knows I've tried.

However, it is apparently great for keeping moisture and mildew out of your suitcases and laundry hampers, especially useful in these humid times. They said so on Que3r Eye, although it was that droll fella who does the cuisine, so maybe it's a load of rubbish.

[Hanson]

I really prefer chalk!

Don't know why exactly, but it feels more like teaching.

[jajdude]

Man this thread is old! I have not had to use chalk since then, 2 years ago.

But actually chalk is minor thing compared to lousy bosses, lousy materials, etc...

[bosintang]

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