Re: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read]

Quoting jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit:
>
> > Incidentally, I was unfortunate enough to have to do maths on one today;
> > they're quite popular here in Germany. Back in Sweden, we had them in
> > elementary school, but in high school and at Uni, they always
> > use "whiteboards", whitish things you write on with special pens. They
> have
> > the major advantage of not involving chalk.
>
> Whiteboards (and indeed they are so named in English) are common in
> corporations, but I have never seen one in any educational establishment
> in the U.S. (which is by no means to say there are none).  The coolest
> variety have a large canvas which can be scrolled left or right, by
> full screens or by smaller steps, and can even save copies of what's
> currently in view using a giant scanner; you can hook up a conventional
> printer for hard copy or (I suppose) put them on a network.  I only
> got to use this Wundergeraet once or twice, alas.
The ones I'm used to are somewhat less fancy. But they're what I expect to
find in a classroom; blackboards strike me as old-fashioned nowadays.

                                                          Andreas

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