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The re-coating over the weekend did nothing to my dept. chair's board. I have a feeling they will end up buying us new boards if they can't find a solution...
Get an ELMO and never write on white boards again!
I often asked parents, if they could, could they donate markers. Our school too always went for "budget markers" that were near worthless.
Also budget erasers. I got a Mr Clean kind of thing, that costs a little but could be washed and used for about a year. So superior if you have to use Markers.
My first teaching job, I went to Lowes, bought white boards and put them up. Ended up with a couple of screws showing, but it sure beat the nasty blackboards or the white board paint. Yeah, I spent my own money, but came out way ahead in aggravation.
But again, the ELMO is the answer, or even better, a projector and a tablet. White boards are so, oh 19th century!
Good Luck.
I am so glad I am retired and not putting up with that mess anymore!
Get an ELMO and never write on white boards again!
I often asked parents, if they could, could they donate markers. Our school too always went for "budget markers" that were near worthless.
Also budget erasers. I got a Mr Clean kind of thing, that costs a little but could be washed and used for about a year. So superior if you have to use Markers.
My first teaching job, I went to Lowes, bought white boards and put them up. Ended up with a couple of screws showing, but it sure beat the nasty blackboards or the white board paint. Yeah, I spent my own money, but came out way ahead in aggravation.
But again, the ELMO is the answer, or even better, a projector and a tablet. White boards are so, oh 19th century!
Good Luck.
I am so glad I am retired and not putting up with that mess anymore!
One school where I taught had Elmos in math classrooms (I teach math). I bought myself a used Avervision document camera for $50 on eBay - best $50 I ever spent!! I use it every day. I give guided notes sheets that we fill out as a class, I project my homework answer key so they can check themselves, etc. etc. But I do use the regular white board every day, too, for warm up problems, also for "extra" things that I don't want the kids to put in their notes but to aid in explaining something, etc.
They used the same kind of stuff over our chalk boards. I think it comes in a big roll like wallpaper. I've had better luck with Quartet brand whiteboard markers. The EXPO brand ones are difficult to erase.
So, the latest update: My dept. chair told the VP, speaking for everyone in this part of the building, that the messed up white boards won't cut it. VP said he would talk to the principal to see "how much they could spend" to fix this problem.
They should have just bought new ones to begin with!
So, the latest update: My dept. chair told the VP, speaking for everyone in this part of the building, that the messed up white boards won't cut it. VP said he would talk to the principal to see "how much they could spend" to fix this problem.
They should have just bought new ones to begin with!
What's that old saying... "buy once, cry once"
If they had just bought new boards, they wouldn't need to buy new boards AND the roll-on stuff.
I worked in a private school in a converted office building. My classroom had previously been a glass-walled conference room. We put pull down shades all along the exterior, and then had effective floor-to-ceiling 'whiteboard' 360 degrees around. Just wrote on the glass with dry erase.
I also had the issue of the school cheaping out on off-brand supplies. Schoolsmart dry erase makers don't cut it. I would get my own EXPO ones, and wrap them in patterned duct tape and stick gaudy artificial flowers on the end so they didn't walk off.
I also bought my own Sharpies. Don't mess with my Sharpies.
I also had a Smartboard, and found it buggy, more useful as a projector than anything else, and overrated.
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