What method did your teachers use to present information when you were in school?
Was it a chalk board, white board, smart board, other?
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Chalk on blackboard, and standard text-books, mainly, throughout my school career, but from my First Year (aged 11) in Grammar School, also:
A six-foot long demonstration model of a simple slide-rule hung from the blackboard frame, when we were taught how to use a slide-rule.*
Physical demonstrations by the teachers, and experiments by us, in the laboratories. Similarly for specific skills in PE.
Physical demonstrations in practical arts and crafts (the latter; Domestic Science for the girls, Woodwork or Metalwork for the boys).
Epidiascopes: in later years a science teacher told me these were useful for showing small objects as well as documents or transparencies.
Very occasionally, films - though most of those we saw were documentaries shown in an after-school, voluntary "Science Club".
Language-laboratory, although I don't recall our French lessons ever using it more than a couple of times. The school also taught German and Latin but I don't know if the lab. had tapes for those.
Sometimes, BBC Radio or TV schools-services programmes: the last I saw supported a peculiar pilot maths syllabus called the "School Mathematics Project", alongside the conventional syllabus leading to GCE O-Level.
Very occasional visits to local industries or research establishments.
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*The company who made that slide-rule, Blundell-Harling, also made standard slide-rules for general use, plus some basic pocket-size ones bought by schools for issuing to pupils, I have lost my specimen of that but still own the "proper" one, about a foot long, I bought in later years. And I can still use it.
Blundell-Harling still trades from its Weymouth factory, surviving because when the conventional slide-rule was displaced by the electronic calculator the company switched to making special slide-rules for specific trades, and drawing-boards.
A six-foot long demonstration model of a simple slide-rule hung from the blackboard frame, when we were taught how to use a slide-rule.*
Physical demonstrations by the teachers, and experiments by us, in the laboratories. Similarly for specific skills in PE.
Physical demonstrations in practical arts and crafts (the latter; Domestic Science for the girls, Woodwork or Metalwork for the boys).
Epidiascopes: in later years a science teacher told me these were useful for showing small objects as well as documents or transparencies.
Very occasionally, films - though most of those we saw were documentaries shown in an after-school, voluntary "Science Club".
Language-laboratory, although I don't recall our French lessons ever using it more than a couple of times. The school also taught German and Latin but I don't know if the lab. had tapes for those.
Sometimes, BBC Radio or TV schools-services programmes: the last I saw supported a peculiar pilot maths syllabus called the "School Mathematics Project", alongside the conventional syllabus leading to GCE O-Level.
Very occasional visits to local industries or research establishments.
.....
*The company who made that slide-rule, Blundell-Harling, also made standard slide-rules for general use, plus some basic pocket-size ones bought by schools for issuing to pupils, I have lost my specimen of that but still own the "proper" one, about a foot long, I bought in later years. And I can still use it.
Blundell-Harling still trades from its Weymouth factory, surviving because when the conventional slide-rule was displaced by the electronic calculator the company switched to making special slide-rules for specific trades, and drawing-boards.
