Hmmm...whiteboards are bad for your brain and nervous system, chalkboards are bad for your lungs. It doesn't seem like much of a choice, does it?
If we put aside our health issues, it would seem that chalk may be hard on our clothes, but marker ink is harder. Is there an option "C"? Nancy Melucci LBCC -----Original Message----- From: Claudia Stanny <csta...@uwf.edu> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) <tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu> Sent: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 11:31 am Subject: Re: [tips] Blackboards vs Whiteboards - Where to lean? I'll confirm this preference for whiteboards on the basis of health/environment. UWF just celebrated the grand opening of a wonderful state-of-the-art science and engineering building (housing Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science and Mathematics/Statistics). After much faculty discussion about the merits of chalk versus whiteboards, the decision was to put no chalk boards in any classroom or laboratory space in the building. The Director of the School of Science and Engineering tells me that the final straw in the decision was the poor health consequences associated with inhalation of chalk dust (a sort of white lung disease). So it is not just messy, hard on your clothes, and drying to your skin, chalk is also harmful to your health. Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Associate Professor, Psychology University of West Florida 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514 – 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 csta...@uwf.edu CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/cutla/ Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Paul C Bernhardt <pcbernha...@frostburg.edu> wrote: White boards because of the following: chalk dust. Chalk dust on the hands is annoying, but wash and moisturize and no big deal. Chalk dust gets in computer and projector systems in the rooms and they degrade much more quickly. White boards are the future because of that alone, IMO. Paul C. Bernhardt Department of Psychology Frostburg State University Frostburg, Maryland --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: drna...@aol.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b878&n=T&l=tips&o=1542 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-1542-12993.aba36cc3760e0b1c6a655f019a68b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1544 or send a blank email to leave-1544-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
