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Wednesday, June 05, 2002
http://fyi.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/06/02/vanishing.chalkboards.ap/index.html Chalkboards slowly erased from schools - Marker boards, computers taking place of class staple ...While the old-fashioned chalkboard remains a fixture in most U.S. classrooms, school designers have all but eliminated it. Taking a page from the business world, they're outfitting most new and remodeled schools with whiteboards, in some cases installing high-tech devices that turn them into virtual computer screens. Teachers can surf the Internet in front of class, save and print out lessons or even create animated diagrams that students can review on a home computer.... For about $3,500, schools can buy a device that allows teachers to draw on a board, hit a button and print copies on a laser printer -- or save text and drawings to a hard drive or Web server. An even cheaper device simply sticks to a whiteboard with suction cups, each of its four markers fitted with a computer stylus. The mimio Xi, manufactured by Massachusetts-based Virtual Ink Corp., saves words or drawings stroke-by-stroke into a computer file, allowing teachers to create a digital movie of a lesson. Students can download and review it using a VCR-like program....
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