Comments on: Whiteboard Breakdown

By: Deas

Deas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:21:28 +0000

Ha ha – does keeping it real mean you're using old school blackboards? Or
does it mean everybody's just responsible for magically knowing what's going
on? I've got one or two schools like that, myself. Hope things in Susono are
great – thanks for the comment!

By: ALT Susono

ALT Susono — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:29:55 +0000

Deas, I just found this post…a month late! Would have loved to have read it when I first started ALTing! Looking around the staff room there's not a white board in sight. We're keeping it real in Susono!

By: Deas

Deas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:21:28 +0000

By: ALT Susono

ALT Susono — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:29:55 +0000

By: Deas

Deas — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:46:10 +0000

I've got 3 schools that have whiteboards in more than half of their
classrooms…and one school that has a blackboard in the teacher's room. Ha
ha. It's pretty hit and miss. I still love making people cringe and wince
when the chalk squeals. But yeah – fingernails are out. Ha ha. Use those
pen-like chalk holders!

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:42:17 +0000

Did you know that all junior high schools and elementary schools in Japan (or at least, every one I've ever been to or ever heard about) still use blackboards? I was a bit worried about having to write on them myself at first due to some childhood traumas involving fingernails, but I've learnt to overcome my fears.

By: Deas

Deas — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:45:11 +0000

Mark – I dunno. It doesn’t get much simpler (as far as retrieving information goes) than the analog act of looking up and reading a board… I kinda dig it. But I also suffer from technojoy, so I’m sure I could be talked into a computerized version. But…why?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:59:27 +0000

A computer-based system would make this so much simpler.