Word: whiteboard
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...went to the OCS Career Forum on Friday afternoon hoping to come back with a job. Instead, it came back with a free Rubik’s Cube, two containers of breathmints, three Nalgene bottles, a mousepad, a whiteboard, and a paper airplane...
...What else boosts math scores? Well, don't laugh, but teaching on a whiteboard with dry-erase markers is better than blackboards with chalk. Students can simply see better. Another study showed that humming fluorescent lights are particularly hard on students - they make gifted students test "ungifted." And light blue paint on the walls of a kindergarten lowered misbehavior...
...laptops on the fiber-optic network that links every classroom and bedroom to teaching resources and the Internet. Some accents reveal the distinctive bray of the upper crust, but most are generic middle class. The questions are earnest and Maxwell is able to illustrate his answers on a giant whiteboard onto which an image from his computer is projected (most classrooms have the same high-tech setup). The project the boys are working on would probably not be the first choice at one of Britain's state schools - their databases are portfolios of fictional shares they manage during the term...
...advanced forms of witchcraft”—Russell has an opinion on most things, and those opinions are usually very funny, if untamed.Beyond a sense of humor, Russell’s instruction of Great Books makes good use of his awe-inspiring linguistic talent. Armed with a whiteboard, a recent discussion of Psalms saw Russell explore the origins and departures of the word “holy” from Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Lithuanian. (Later, in the midst of serving Armenian cherry-flavored brandy out of a Diet Pepsi bottle, Russell declined...
Passing motorists yelled racial slurs at students. A black student named Phillip Jackson found the words “Nigger/I hate Jesus” written on the whiteboard on his room door, according to the university newspaper, the Cavalier Daily. And the Washington Post reported that a black student, sophomore Kyle Miller, found a racist note written in red capital letters on the windshield of his vehicle...