The word 'blackboard' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a large, dark-colored board, typically made of wood, used in classrooms for writing or drawing with chalk. You can use 'blackboard' when describing a traditional classroom setting or when discussing educational tools and technology. Example: "The teacher wrote the lesson objectives on the blackboard before starting class."
Inside a modest office tucked down a side alley in Camden, north London, a large blackboard displays an improbable list of names in bright white chalk: Sienna Miller, London Underground, Marks & Spencer, Oxford University, the London borough of Tower Hamlets, Royal Mail, Yorkshire ambulance service, the government of Nepal.
Open Mon-Fri noon-2.30pm, 5.30pm-11pm, Sun, Sun 5.30pm-11pm The menu at Razmataz leans towards French and Mediterranean dishes, and there's always a good selection of specials on the blackboard.
The art of the possible Towards the unknown region The parties propose: Transport The blackboard jungle What will happen?
But in general, as befits a covert operative, his tone is quizzical and low-key, rather than bombastic and judgmental.For anyone schooled in blackboard economics, "The Undercover Economist" succeeds in taking the chalkdust out of the subject.
Unless bad schools are indeed closed, his scheme will be as much good as a blackboard with no chalk.
Ever since the invention of the blackboard each new communications medium has been hailed as an educational revolution.
We were misled by a picture agency's caption error: but we should at least have spotted the absence of kana on the blackboard.
On the blackboard, he draws a picture of an egg.
There is no money from the government, so parents helped build toilets, and spread cement on the wall to be used as a blackboard.
"Doing this sort of business education as a game can make it more compelling than a traditional chalk-and-blackboard approach," says Tim Luft, of the Serious Games Institute, a research outfit in Coventry, England.
But given the silly things that are being said about trade policy and food prices, I thought it useful to trot through the basic logic.The standard blackboard-case for free trade rests on productive efficiency.
