Re: your mail

[Allen Brown <brownan@EDUC.QUEENSU.CA>]

Yes, I have seen it, but it was lo, these many years ago.

What I used to do was create an overhead transparency of a piece of graph
paper, then use the OHP to project it onto the blackboard (it worked well,
in spite of the "black" board).

Allen

On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Mark Lattery wrote:

> Phys-l,
>
> All this talk about whiteboards has triggered a question I have about
> blackboards.  In high school, my teacher had a thin square pad, about 1
> meter on a side, with many tiny holes in it.  When he placed the pad
> against the blackboard and rubbed a chalk-filled eraser over the surface,
> the chalk bled through the
> holes and formed a nice grid (made up of little dots) on the blackboard.
>
> I have asked numerous vendors and manufacturers for this product and not
> been able to find it.
> Am I remembering incorrectly?  Have you seen this kind of thing before?
>
> Mark
>
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