Autobiography of blackboard in English
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I like it very much when the teacher call the girls to the blackboard to solve maths problem. I keep wishing they will be able to do it. Sometimes the girls scribble on me , behind the teacher’s back. They draw cartoons and write slogans on me.
I am cleaned once a day with a wet cloth by the caretaker. During school hours, I am always with my friends the white chalk and the duster.
I have to tell you that I am made of a type of stone called slate. I was excavated in Madhya pradesh, carved and polished, then sent to a shop selling school supplies.
I was brought from Kolkata by the authorities and installed when the classroom was completed. Then came the chairs and desks. I am the most important teaching equipment in the classroom.
One day the class teacher entered the classroom excitedly and announced that they were turning the classrooms into smart classrooms. The new electronic boards would be connected with internet. The chalk would be replaced with a stylus and the duster was a delete button. It meant that I would be of no use. I would be taken off the walls and maybe given away to schools for poor children.
My end was near. I looked lovingly at the children. They were cheering hard. I was happy for them
Autobiography of a Blackboard
I spend most of my life hanging on a wall in a classroom. I have
been an integral learning tool for many decades since the dawn of modern
civilization. I feel quite content for having contributed in making the mankind
better. A classroom without me would be as dull as a garden without flowers. Teachers
impart knowledge to students through me. I help them simplify the abstruse
concepts of knowledge. Like all other things I have been evolving into better
versions. Earlier I used to be any plain hard surface painted black. Then I began
to be made out of wood also. As the time advanced I was made out of a special
glass. The glass version was quite convenient as cleaning it was quite easy and
not much of the chalk remained stuck to my surface. Then people experimented
with my colour also. My green board version seems to have become quite popular
at schools. Then I evolved into whiteboard gradually. In place of chalks,
colourful markers are used which though a bit more expensive, don’t cause chalk
dust problems.
My most advanced and recent version is white-interactive smart
board. A projector attached to a computer projects all the learning data onto
my surface thus making classroom learning more efficient, colourful,
interactive, engrossing, and effective. Children prefer my smart board version
to all other versions. Though I have evolved over the years, however, my prime
purpose of spreading the light of knowledge remains to be unchanged.