Outdated technology

[jhetley]

Maybe not the intended message, but some of us pick up on obscure details . . .

Okay, there was this Obama ad on the noon news, had the sound off, but the visuals indicated it was focusing on education.  Our hopeful in a classroom setting, expounding.  In the background, a blackboard.  Genuine, chalk-type maybe-slate blackboard, like we had back in the Pleistocene. 

I was designing marker-boards into school classrooms twenty, thirty years ago.  Move your campaign into the Century of the Fruitbat, man!

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[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

Possibly the picture was of Obama from when he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago, which has been around a while. He taught there from 1992 to 2004 and I've seen a picture of a somewhat younger Obama at a chalk board from campaign materials.

I don't know that they still have chalkboards there but it wouldn't surprise me.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

This was live campaign video with him speaking to the camera, not a static photo. Wife suggests that it was probably a studio sound set, from some vintage production.

[suzilem.livejournal.com]

We still have a lot of chalkboards (the kind that sprouted the cliche about nails on a chalkboard) around here. Of course, I live in Texas. We had to deal with Shrub and his "support" of education (teachers, supplies, and physical plant) for quite a few years.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I've done renovation work on a number of older schools -- 1930s brick prison monsters, 1950s bright-and-cheery energy hogs, whatever -- and most already had the chalkboards swapped out for marker boards. And Maine's a poor, rural state . . .

Chalk dust and computers are pretty-much incompatible. Does Texas have computers in classrooms?