Not many kids of today know that chemicaly smell of those copies done with the blue writing.
There never seemed to be a problem getting volunteers to help run the Gestetner mimeograph duplicator back in junior high school (mid ‘60s)
edit, on reflection and a short Wiki visit, I realize they were mostly likely the hand cranked spirit duplicators
edit, on reflection and a short Wiki visit, I realize they were mostly likely the hand cranked spirit duplicators
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In a TV program here, 15 kid couples were given the task to write a sentence with a a classical typewriter. The result? Nobody managed, given a time limit of 90 seconds.
First thing you had to learn: never write on the glass with a permanent marker.
In high school, I hated these overhead projectors because teachers would start a new sheet before we were done taking notes from the previous one.
It was worse in college, so forced myself to take notes without looking down at my notebook, otherwise I'd miss something. It worked but my handwriting still looks like crap.
We had all three at the same time- overhead projector, opaque projector, and film strips. Also tape loops synched to film strips, but that did not last.
You are right. This is a major drawback of this way of teaching.
This was a dogma in its time in France by eggs-heads that where in charge to teach teachers how to teach ( mostly knowing nothing about it, themselves ).
Personally, never used those overhead projectors with my students; Teaching was white board writing, which gives the right pace.
Our teacher in biology in high school wanted to show some slides, but all the slides in the magasin were upside down so our very "handy" teacher turned the projector upside down as well and ... yepp!
And then there were drawing boards, hand drawn mechanics and mechanical drawings on translucent material. Remember the ammonia smell of blueprint copies?
Even after months, you could get one out of a folder and it's still smell...
Then there was letraset.. I still have some. And hand taped PCB layouts - I did lots of those, trickiest one I worked on was an 8 layer board for an early PC (Apricot).
Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
Even after months, you could get one out of a folder and it's still smell...
Then there was letraset.. I still have some. And hand taped PCB layouts - I did lots of those, trickiest one I worked on was an 8 layer board for an early PC (Apricot).
Ah, nostalgia isn't what it used to be...
