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I'm sure we've all been there - you write something on a whiteboard then discover you have not used the correct type of pen, and your writing can't be removed.

Here's a tip that I got from a colleague : simply draw over the writing using a whiteboard marker. The chemicals in the ink will dissolve the 'permanent' ink and you can rub off the result using a cloth or whitebaord eraser in the usual way.

Oh! Nice tip! (Even though I hope I never have to try it ).

Strider,

I had forgotten about this post. Did you see my post about whiteboards in the mgt forum? Basically, I've been given lessons at a company whose whiteboard is in a terrible state. I think someone either used a solvent or scouring powder on it. Do you know if there are any products that can be used to restore a whiteboard's surface?

By the way, Strider, I tried the "write over it" method and it didn't work. But it might have been because it wasn't a permanent marker. It was a marker for overhead projector plastic, and I used water to get it off the whiteboard.

Hello!

Andrew Patterson, I'm sorry, I don't know of any products. The only thing I can think of is perhaps transparent 'sticky back plastic', the sort of thing you use to cover text books. I think that if it had a glossy surface rather than a matt surface, it may work.

Lorikeet, I didn't know about those kind of pens. We live and learn!

BTW, I once used the Rolls-Royce of whitebaords. Have you ever seen anything like this? It looked like a regular whiteboard, except the surface was a sheet of plastic. After I wrote on the board, I could press a button, the sheet would disappear around the back somewhere and a paper copy of what I had written dropped into a tray underneath, on A4 paper. It was an amazing device. It could print up to 4 full whiteboards of writing on a single sheet of A4, and of course, it was possible to print multiple copies of paper, enough for every trainee.

strider wrote: BTW, I once used the Rolls-Royce of whitebaords. Have you ever seen anything like this? It looked like a regular whiteboard, except the surface was a sheet of plastic. After I wrote on the board, I could press a button, the sheet would disappear around the back somewhere and a paper copy of what I had written dropped into a tray underneath, on A4 paper. It was an amazing device. It could print up to 4 full whiteboards of writing on a single sheet of A4, and of course, it was possible to print multiple copies of paper, enough for every trainee.

I bet you were teaching in a business setting! There's no way we'd get a whiteboard like that in a public school here at least .