Word: blackboarding
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...console is a diminutive, innocent-looking machine with a typewriter keyboard. One such console is hooked up to a central computer in Santa Barbara, and has a display panel which can project curves and equations onto a screen--an animated blackboard. It can be used to solve some fairly sophisticated problems in applied mathematics and physics...
...right!" shouted Lewis, rushing to a blackboard and scrawling in huge letters: DID NOT THINK. The "jurors" roared...
...story is told as a grab bag of gleanings from Teacher Barrett's mailbox, blackboard, wastebasket and students' schoolwork. Teachers chuckle in recognition at the memos Miss Barrett receives, such as one beginning: "Please disregard the following," and at the kids' comments, such as a boy's note explaining his failure to turn in homework: "My dog pead on it." Teachers everywhere seem to have kids as sniggery as those of Miss Barrett's, who is advised by a veteran teacher: "Never give a lesson on lie and lay" and never say "the word frigate...
...helicopters. Except for snipers in spider holes and an occasional machine-gun nest, there was nobody home. But home was something else again-an astonishing network of tunnels equipped with all the conveniences, from freshwater wells to a hospital, a post office and a briefing room complete with blackboard and chairs...
...applies that theory by getting his teachers to sing simple songs or to play phonograph records while pointing out words on big blackboard-size charts. The kids sing the words, get up and move to the rhythm of the songs, acting out the words with gestures. For example, they may "fly with the angels," then "chatter with the angels," "march with the angels," "dance with the angels." As they play out the roles, the teacher flashes the key verbs on cards, enabling the kids to connect sight, sound and movement...