Environmental and Health Benefits of Using ReMARKable Whiteboard Painted Walls vs. Chalkboards

The use of chalkboards has been in a steady global decline for several decades due to the introduction of cost-effective whiteboards and whiteboard painted walls. Nowadays, few in business, education, or other fields prefer to deal with chalkboards since they’re messy, cause chalk dust to be scattered around a room, and are high maintenance, requiring regular cleaning to retain their usefulness, and more staff members to do the cleaning. Also, many children and adults are allergic to chalk dust, providing another reason that schools and businesses are moving away from chalkboards.

By contrast, whiteboards, more specifically whiteboard-painted walls, offer a far more convenient and lower-cost option compared to chalkboards and the many difficulties that come with them. Whiteboard-painted walls also have numerous environmental and health-related advantages over chalkboards. Simply put, implementing the use of dry erase markers and ReMARKable whiteboards can positively affect Earth’s ecology and make life healthier for everyone.

Many chalkboards were originally made of dark gray or black slate sheets that had to be extracted through quarrying

Quarrying is a practice that’s extremely damaging to the planet as it destroys habitats, causes soil erosion, and pollutes the air, among other harmful effects. Many slate chalkboards are still being used, but they’re always fixed in specific places on walls, restricting the use of classroom or office space and creating problems for those with motor impairments. Chalkboards also become cloudy and chalky after some time through the use of certain types of chalk and improper cleaning techniques. Today the highest grade chalkboards are made of rough versions of porcelain-enameled steel sheets. However, they’re still messy and difficult to use and are fixed at certain heights, so they may be uncomfortable for some people to write or draw on.

Since chalkboards and whiteboards are now made of similar materials and are comparable in terms of their environmental impact, the debate comes down to whether using chalk or dry erase markers is better for the environment. Unsurprisingly, the use of markers on boards wins out in all respects because of their many eco-friendly benefits.

Chalk is made up of either calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate

Calcium sulfate and calcium carbonate are sourced from gypsum and limestone. Gathering these materials requires a great deal of energy, but the most serious problem is that quarrying the minerals can cause air pollution and the other aforementioned environmental problems associated with quarrying slate, so the process has a detrimental effect both on local ecosystems and communities. Along with the air pollution and other problems caused by gathering the raw materials for chalk, many people who write with chalk use plastic holders to get the most out of each piece of chalk they use, and this creates large amounts of plastic waste, much of which is not recycled and ends up in landfills.

Chalkdust can trigger allergies and can aggravate the symptoms of asthma

Another huge challenge related to chalk is the dust it produces. Chalkdust has been known to trigger allergies and can aggravate the symptoms of children and adults who suffer from asthma. By contrast, dry erase markers produce no particles that contaminate the air, making them a much safer alternative to chalk for anyone using them, especially those with asthma or allergies. Also, if you drop a marker on the floor, you can just pick it up and continue using it, but if you drop a piece of chalk, it inevitably breaks apart and is rendered useless, not to mention the need to pick up the pieces and sweep up the chalk dust.

Chalkboards were replaced by whiteboards for many economic reasons

Quality glass or ceramic chalkboards are much more expensive to buy and also to maintain. The regular washing of chalkboards and vacuuming of chalk dust require increased maintenance and hence a higher payroll and costs. Also, many times it’s necessary for well-paid office staff or instructors to clean chalkboards and remove chalk dust, and it’s hard to argue that this type of work is a cost-productive use of such staff members’ time. As mentioned, unlike chalk, dry erase markers don’t break apart and create dust when dropped on the floor, so they’re maintenance-free, and whiteboards are also easier to clean than chalkboards.

Chalkdust shortens the lifespan of computers and other electronic equipment

Chalkdust not only impacts people’s health but also interferes with the well-being of nearby computers and other electronic equipment by getting into the tiniest cracks and crevices in their housings. This increases the need to clean and possibly replace the devices because chalk dust can shorten the equipment’s lifespan, thus generating more polluting e-waste, costing you more money, and causing other painful issues as well.

For example, the system by which individuals and countries dispose of electronic waste poses many environmental and health-related problems. One major concern is that much of the world’s e-waste is discarded recklessly by shipping it to impoverished areas where many people in or near e-waste dumps suffer severe health problems, particularly those who work with the waste directly. One such area is the city of Taizhou in Zhejiang province, China, where researchers recently took air samples. Taizhou is one of the largest e-waste-dismantling areas in the country, employing 60,000 people to disassemble more than two million tons of electronic waste each year. The researchers found that e-waste pollution in the air, which the workers constantly breathe in, causes lung inflammation and stress that lead to heart disease, DNA damage, and possibly even cancer.

When e-waste is disposed of in such places, people’s food, water, and soil can also become contaminated. Another study found that European e-waste is generating catastrophic levels of toxins in the eggs of free-range chickens raised in certain parts of Africa. If a person were to consume an egg originating from an area like this, they could be ingesting 220 times more toxic chlorinated dioxins than the maximum daily intake established by the World Health Organization and the UN’s Joint Food and Agriculture Organization! Thus, switching to the use of dry erase markers helps technology last longer, decreases the number of harmful toxins released into the environment through careless e-waste disposal, and improves public health.

Black or other colored marker on a white background is much easier to read than the reverse

Besides the above-mentioned drawbacks to chalkboard use, many others exist as well. For example, writing or drawing that’s done with a black or other colored marker on a white background is much easier to read than the reverse. This is so because fixating on white text or images on a black background for long periods can strain people’s eyes. White stimulates all three types of color-sensitive receptors in the human eye to approximately equal degrees, making reading white text on a dark backdrop such as a chalkboard stressful to the eyes. Also, when white text is read on a black surface, the iris of the eye opens a little bit more to receive more light, and the eye’s lens is deformed, creating a much fuzzier focus for the eye. This is known as the “fuzzing effect” or “halation,” the spreading of light beyond a text’s normal boundaries to create a kind of fog around the edges of the white image. But when the background is white, as with a whiteboard or whiteboard painted wall, the iris closes a bit more than usual, thus decreasing the effects of the “deformed” lens in the eye.

Whiteboard walls are better than chalkboards for projecting slides and video on to

Whiteboards and whiteboard-painted walls are also better than chalkboards for projecting slides and videos, especially when your projector is connected to a classroom computer. And it’s easier to annotate the contents of a computer projection by writing or drawing on a whiteboard than it is on a chalkboard, especially when a different color such as red or blue is used. Making annotations around a projected image on a white background can make a world of difference in communicating ideas to a group and in helping to diminish eye strain, so in comparison to chalkboards, whiteboard-painted walls again win hands down.

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DRY ERASE WALL QUOTES FOR AUGUST 2021 BY REMARKABLE WHITEBOARD PAINT

August: A Month of Warmth and Happiness

The name for the month of August comes from the Latin surname “Augustus,” meaning “consecrated” or “venerable.” According to the Gregorian calendar used in most parts of the world, August is the eighth month of the year. When August begins, and we race toward autumn, we feel a range of emotions from joy over childhood memories to nostalgia about more recent summers to enthusiasm about our plans for the upcoming seasons. Thoughts on August and the end of summertime often have a bittersweet quality. Below is a collection of quotes that reflect an array of ideas and emotions about August, offering inspiration to elevate your mood and kindle some happiness as you take pleasure in this time before fall begins. Post a quote or two on your dry erase wall every day or once a week to help you and your loved ones in the home office or home school feel more motivated for your daily tasks.

The Love of August

1. “I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”
– Tove Jansson (Finnish author, painter, and comic strip writer)

2. “August still stretched before us — long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
– Lauren Oliver (US author)

3. “Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov (British-American poet)

4. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han (US author)

5. “The seasons between spring and autumn, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere, the warmest months of the year: June, July, and August — the period of finest development, perfection, or beauty previous to any decline; the summer of life.”
– Cecelia Ahern (Irish novelist)

6. “The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.”
– Antoine Arnault (French businessman)

7. “Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August. Take me to Barbados.”
– Charmaine J. Forde (US writer and philanthropist)

Nature in August

8. “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
– Sara Baume (Irish novelist), A Line Made by Walking

9. “August rain: The best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath

10. “Did you know that around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars?”
– Elizabeth Enright (US writer), Then There Were Five

11. “August of another summer, and once again, I am drinking the sun, and the lilies again are spread across the water.”
– Mary Oliver (US poet)

12. “August is ripening grain in the fields. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe pye weed dusts the meadow purple.”
– Jean Hersey (US author)

13. “August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children.”
– Victor Nekrasov (Russian writer)

14. “August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease.”
– John Burroughs (US naturalist)

15. “It’s part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August.”
– Monica Hesse (US author)

16. “It was August, and the fields were high with corn.”
– Melanie Gideon (US author)

17. “Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy, and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.”
– Sylvia Plath (US poet)

18. “August is a great month in the garden, with many flowers, including dahlias, sunflowers and other hot-colored blooms at their peak.”
– BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine

19. “The brilliant poppy flaunts her head Amidst the ripening grain, And adds her voice to sell the song That August’s here again.”
– Helen Winslow (US editor and author)

20. “In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.”
– Henry David Thoreau (US naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher

21. “I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.”
– Siri Hustvedt (US novelist)

Insights on August

22. “August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins (US singer)

23. “There is something about August that feels bittersweet. Each sunrise comes a little later. Some nights are cooler. You realize this time of the year is ending, and you wish for just a little more time to savor the days of early morning light and the evenings of lingering dusk.”
– Julie Hage (US writer and blogger)

24. “Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.”
– Kent Nerburn (US author)

25. “August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades, the final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
– Rasmenia Massoud (US author)

26. “August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch (US writer and naturalist)

27. “When summer opens, I see how fast it matures and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (US essayist, philosopher, and poet)

28. “The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
– Sue Monk Kidd (US writer)

29. “Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”
– Rick Bass (US writer)

30. “That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks (US singer-songwriter)

31. “One evening in August, you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden, it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson (Finnish author, painter, and comic strip writer)

32. “But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time.”
– Taylor Swift (US singer-songwriter), ‘August’

33. “In August, an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.”
– Kelsey Brickl (US linguist)

34. “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
– Natalie Babbitt (US writer of children’s books)

35. “Caught in the doldrums of August, we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail (English novelist)

36. “Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley (US novelist)

37. “It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation. For then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.”
– Max Heindel (Danish-American astrologer)

38. “August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your New Year resolution for seven months and not doing it for the next five.”
– Crestless Wave (aka Anjit Sharma – Indian writer)

39. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer.
– Jenny Han (US writer)

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WORKING WHITEBOARD WALL – THE FOUNDATION OF A WELL-EQUIPPED HOME OFFICE

Working Whiteboard Wall: The Foundation of a Well-equipped Home Office
Working walls, also known as research walls, inspiration boards, research boards, design walls, and ideation walls, are large vertical surfaces used for displaying information, projects, actions, decisions, and ideas so as to enhance the thinking processes of individuals or teams in business, design, science, and other fields. The core notion underlying working walls is that physically placing sources of inspiration and work in progress in public view and engaging with them can help team members rearrange and expand their ideas and so come up with groundbreaking insights. In the design field, working whiteboard walls have also been called “artful surfaces” that externalize work-related activities to support designers’ day-to-day ways of working and thinking.

Types of Working Whiteboard Walls

Among the various types of working whiteboard walls are the following.
1. Ideation Walls
Ideation walls help in simplifying each stage of a process or plan and in promoting creative thought. They also assist teams in developing a focused approach to a problem or project by allowing them to display and study large amounts of information at once and keep track of changes in data and ideas.
2. Project Walls
Project walls are excellent for displaying information and images. With respect to reaching due dates, maintaining the flow of a project’s essential parameters, and assessing work in progress, it is crucial to make the information as visible as possible so teams can stay united in their efforts and aware of exactly what’s going on at any given moment and what might be happening next.
3. Roadmap Walls
Roadmap walls provide an ideal way to represent processes or successions of elements in ongoing projects, especially those that extend over long periods. They offer a way to identify difficulties and opportunities that arise throughout a project’s progression.

The Functions of Working Whiteboard Walls

Working whiteboard walls keep teams motivated in order to reach collective goals, and encourage others to learn, give feedback and share insights and information through visuals. These powerful thinking tools originated in the design field and were later adopted for use in classrooms, business offices, research labs, and other settings. Working whiteboard walls can accelerate and stimulate each stage of the thinking process and offer unique benefits that encourage highly creative thought.

The walls can help colleagues empathize with and get feedback from one another and from clients; bring focus to a large quantity of information; encapsulate the thought-generating process; display low-fidelity trial products and prototypes that teams and users can interact with, and keep a record of how creative ideas emerge and are tested over time.

These wall-sized displays on vertical surfaces can thus be used to stimulate user collaboration, allowing for easy visualization and making them especially useful for projects such as consumer research. Working walls are graphic media that assist in the attainment of goals and targets and the development of ideas. To support the growth of these ideas, the content of a working wall changes frequently, thus empowering and driving creative teamwork.

Whiteboard walls used as working walls are eco-friendly

But how can working walls be adapted for use in today’s ever-growing number of work-from-home environments? One highly practical, eco-friendly, and cost-effective way is to install a top-quality whiteboard coated wall, a large, durable, and easy-to-use writing and drawing surface that can make an effective working whiteboard wall without having to mount a tack board, which is the most common surface used to create working walls. Such boards are limited in size and, when made of cork, deteriorate from users continually inserting and removing push pins and thumbtacks over time. Also, cork is a plant-based product derived from tree bark and thus has natural defects, grooves, and cracks that can make the surfaces of conventional working walls uneven and may shorten their lifespans.

By comparison, high-quality eco-friendly whiteboard coated walls are exceptionally smooth and durable, and unlike cork-covered tack boards, can be written and drawn on and easily erased for ten-plus years of normal use. Every square inch of wall space in your home office provides a chance for you to be creative and to encourage yourself and your virtual team members to engage in productive interactions and joint decision-making through the use of a whiteboard coated wall, which can also function as a working wall.

Another material used for making tack boards is fabric-backed vinyl. Although more durable than cork, this product is non-eco-friendly, as one of its major components is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), which is considered the most environmentally damaging form of plastic being produced today. The process of manufacturing vinyl has significant ecological impacts, as it involves producing the gas vinyl chloride, the building block of PVC, which is known to cause cancer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found that containment of vinyl chloride at plants where it’s made is often inadequate, so the gas sometimes escapes into the surrounding air, water, and soil, causing a serious threat to plants, animals, and humans.

Also, because of the vinyl chloride and other ingredients used in its manufacture, vinyl emits hazardous volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) into the air for a period after installation. These toxic substances reduce the air quality in the immediate environment and can cause respiratory problems for those nearby. Thus, using a vinyl-covered tack board as a working wall can make the work-from-home office space a toxic environment, especially for those with sensitive respiratory systems.

Whiteboard walls eliminate the need to use strings for connecting items

With traditional working walls that consist of cork or vinyl tack boards, users in business offices, schools, police departments, and other settings typically pin or tack pieces of paper with relevant textual data, sketches, maps, and photos onto the walls. In this way, team members or students can see the various ideas, images, and bits of information involved in specific business projects, school lessons, criminal cases, and the like. Then pieces of string are often strung between the various items on the walls to show their interrelationships.

However, if a whiteboard wall is used as a working wall in the home office, there is no need to use pushpins and tacks to display items and strings to connect them. Instead, items can be hung on the wall through the use of GoodHangups, an innovative magnetic hanging system that may be used to post discussion topics, photos, maps, and other items relevant to a project being planned or executed. GoodHangups can be easily removed and reused, and they entail no drilling of holes into your wall. By using this unique system on a working whiteboard wall, you can fasten items in various places then use dry erase markers instead of string to make lines showing the connections among the items. In this way, you will avoid the hassle of having to stretch pieces of string between objects on your working wall and then having to remove and replace the strings when connections between objects change. Thus, with a whiteboard wall, each time a modification needs to be made, you can simply erase the lines you drew between items and draw new ones to reflect the new relationship.

The benefits of working whiteboard walls

The following are some of the many benefits offered by working whiteboard walls.

They provide a central reference point for presenting information. Considering the vast amount of data that emerge from team discussions during virtual meetings, it’s easy to lose track of what’s said. Thus, using a working whiteboard wall as an information hub for posting ideas, facts, and diagrams helps teams that work remotely to feel as engaged in and connected to a project as they would be in a regular office setting.

Working whiteboard walls also stimulate “outside the box” ways of thinking and thus help to generate new ideas. Coming up with innovations in project development is often challenging and requires inspiration, so you can use your wall to accelerate the ideation process, draw sketches, and create mockups that help team members make connections and produce breakthroughs.

Finally, the visual cues displayed on working whiteboard walls produce cross-contextual reminders about meaningful discussions, decisions, and thoughts that may jog the collective memory and keep you and your virtual colleagues interested and engaged in your work.

HAVING A DRY-ERASE WALL IN YOUR CLASSROOM CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE

Having a Dry Erase Wall in Your Classroom Can Change Your Life

No matter what your experience as a teacher may be, and whether you teach at any level from preschool to college, in a private or public school setting, applying top-quality dry-erase paint to your classroom walls can significantly change your life as an educator and also the lives of your students as learners. From doing daily lessons to brainstorming ideas for class projects to creating storyboards for the upcoming class play, the immense, durable, and easy-to-use surface of a dry-erase painted wall allows for infinite levels of personal and professional transformation.

Many Teachers Find Their Classroom Walls Need Serious Upgrades

On your first day at your current school, when you entered your classroom for the first time, you no doubt looked around and had a variety of first impressions about the room’s interior decor, ranging from “That looks good” to “Wow, this really needs some improvement!” Generally speaking, the average school, college, or university classroom is large enough to accommodate a reasonable number of students based on the school’s population, and the lighting is at least sufficient so that students and teachers can easily see what’s going on during lessons and other activities. But oftentimes, the elements of the classroom that stand out the most upon first glance and seem to need upgrading are the walls, which often become major eyesores after years of use by teachers as posting areas, and from general wear and tear.

The Use of Classroom Walls by Previous Teachers Creates Telltale Signs of Wear

The paint on classroom walls can often be lifted off and punctured in various places due to teachers’ use of sticky tape, tacks, staples, or push pins to mount countless posters, maps, charts, and other objects on the walls. In such cases, when the posted items are removed, the tape invariably rips paint from the walls, and the pins, staples, or tacks leave puncture marks that can’t be removed without the use of putty or spackling compound. When new teachers encounter such irregular and unsightly surfaces, they typically know right away that it will be hard to look at them on a daily basis and that some serious upgrading is in order.

What Can Teachers do to Remedy the Situation?

You may be a teacher who has inherited such well-worn and unattractive classroom walls from another teacher or just feel that your current walls need a significant makeover. If so, instead of getting the walls recoated with ordinary latex paint, it would be much more creative and practical to have them decorated with highly writable and easily erased premium dry-erase paint. In doing so, you’ll find that the massive open canvases of the resulting dry-erase walls will become your best and most reliable teaching tools, so you’ll be inspired to use them every day for every lesson you teach and for countless other school-related tasks.

Take Your Walls from Boring to Exciting with One Dry-Erase Paint Makeover

Dry-erase painted walls are the perfect solution to the drab look and lack of usefulness common to regular painted walls, which serve no purpose except as occasional posting areas for notices, maps, and the like, or as projector screens for video presentations. So, if you put in a request to have your classroom walls coated with dry-erase paint and get an approval, just contact the knowledgeable customer support team at ReMARKable for a consultation about your requirements. They can give you all the information you need about ordering top-quality dry-erase paint to take your classroom to a new level of functionality and aesthetic appeal.

How Long Will it Take to Get Dry-Erase Paint Installed in Your Classroom?

Once your application to have dry-erase paint installed in your classroom is approved, it will take only 45 minutes or less to apply our top-quality eco-friendly product after its two components are mixed together. Then, the dry time is just a short two days, the fastest curing time on the market for any dry-erase paint, thus allowing you to begin writing and drawing on your new surface more quickly than you could with harmful epoxy-based paints. In addition, because our environmentally friendly paint is practically odor-free and extremely low in volatile organic compounds (VOCs), you and your students will never be exposed to any hazardous fumes throughout the entire time the walls are used.

The Transformative Power of Dry-Erase Walls in Teaching and Learning

One of the favorite activities of teachers who use dry-erase walls is to arrange their students in small groups in front of the walls to work on collectively solving math problems. The groups can each be given a section of the wall to write on and then be asked to show all of the calculations they make in order to arrive at a solution. Next, when the time for the activity is up, the groups can easily compare the work displayed on the walls, and you can observe how efficiently and accurately each group worked. Then grades can be given to each team if desired.

Dry-Erase Markers and Erasing Cloths can be Hung on the Walls for Easy Access

One of the concerns that teachers sometimes have is that students need dry-erase markers to write and microfiber cloths to erase with when using the walls, and checking these items out and back in all the time with the teacher can be a hassle. As an alternative, markers and cloths can easily be attached to dry-erase painted walls through the use of Ziploc bags and GoodHangups, a creative new magnetic hanging system for putting up posters, photos, notices, and other items. GoodHangups consist only of a magnetic sticker and a magnet, so they require no drilling into a dry-erase wall for mounting. Using these novel devices, you can put Ziploc bags on your walls to hold markers and microfiber cloths that students can access for writing or drawing during class time.

Students Truly Appreciate Having Dry-Erase Painted Walls in the Classroom

Students love the broad, open surfaces of dry-erase walls because they offer virtually unlimited room to express creativity and do classroom activities that would be more limited in scope if small surfaces like traditional framed whiteboards were used. Students also become highly motivated when they have the chance to engage in student-focused learning with the walls in groups and enjoy the opportunity to be in control of their work through the process. They control the words they write, the calculations they perform, and the outcomes they achieve. Also, for less outgoing students, working in small groups on a dry-erase painted wall boosts self-confidence because even though they may be shy, these students can feel a sense of accomplishment when their group solves a math problem correctly or does some other type of work that turns out well. For more outgoing students, working in groups on a dry-erase wall allows for the expression of their natural leadership abilities in having the chance to direct groups during problem-solving sessions or other types of class or extracurricular activities.

Dry-Erase Walls Make for Better and More Productive Teachers and Students

Having premium dry-erase painted walls in your classroom can quickly change your life and the lives of your students for the better. The walls offer fantastic instructional possibilities that allow you to become a more effective teacher and, in turn, allow your students to become better and more creative learners. After only a short amount of time having dry-erase walls in the classroom, you’ll no doubt get to the point where you can’t see yourself teaching without them. And you’ll soon be recommending them highly to every teacher you know as well.

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HOSTING AN EFFECTIVE MEETING WITH A WHITEBOARD WALL

Hosting an Effective Meeting with a Whiteboard Wall
Holding a successful business meeting is a bit like landing a space module on the planet Mars. Keeping track of the seemingly infinite variables involved in the process appears hopeless, and conducting the perfect team gathering never seems to work out quite as you had planned. But unproductive company meetings aren’t as inevitable as they may seem. With the right communication tools and a touch of inspiration, you can conduct the meeting of your dreams every time you and your team members get together. One such communication tool is the premium whiteboard wall, which offers a highly durable and virtually endless space for presenting facts, expressing opinions, and coming up with creative ideas for product launches, marketing schemes, and the like.

Make meetings a team activity

To have your meetings become more than personal lectures by you, the organizer, it’s a good idea to take regular advantage of the distinctive viewpoints, experiences, and skillsets of your team members at all of your business get-togethers. Doing so can provide you with great opportunities to make your meetings more efficient, collaborative, and worthwhile, thus enhancing your company’s creativity, productivity, and bottom line.

Organize a Discussion

With the appropriate organization and guidance, collective dialog can bring about a more engaging meeting and generate more new and unique solutions to problems than a traditional lecture, even when a question-and-answer session is included. Devoting a specific segment of your meeting schedule to a brainstorming session is an excellent way to stimulate such group dialog. As the meeting coordinator, your job is to outline the goals of the session and to work in conjunction with your team to expand on ideas they come up with during the brainstorming process. With small groups, it’s easy to encourage free conversation among all the members present, but with large groups, it’s difficult. Thus, it’s more effective to separate the participants in a large meeting into smaller clusters then reunite them after a specific time period to discuss everyone’s ideas in the large group context.

Use Your Whiteboard Wall to Practice “Brainwriting”

Brainstorming is a key part of meetings where top-quality whiteboard-coated walls come into play. For both small and large gatherings, the quality of group discussions can be optimized by using the vast canvas of a whiteboard wall. In smaller meetings, a massive whiteboard wall provides ample room for everyone in attendance to brainstorm together through the use of mind maps, free association, and a host of other methods. In large meetings, however, it’s best to make use of the ample writing area of a whiteboard wall by first dividing the participants into small groups then asking them to use different segments of the wall to record their individual brainstorming ideas.

One novel brainstorming approach that’s popular today is known as “brainwriting.” In this partially nonverbal method, the participants use pieces of paper to write down three original ideas related to the session’s topic. Then after a designated number of minutes, the team members pass their ideas to the individuals on their right, who build from these ideas, adding bullet points, new creative approaches, etc. Next, after another several minutes, all the participants pass the pieces of paper again until the papers have gone all the way around the group. Once the ideas have made it completely around the circle, the participants deliberate and choose which ones are best suited for further discussion.

By ensuring that everyone has a chance to contribute and by removing the common bias favoring the first idea presented, this strategy helps alleviate two of brainstorming’s most significant drawbacks — lop-sided conversations and the anchoring effect, whereby people rely too much on the first piece of information presented to draw subsequent conclusions during the decision making process.

Brainwriting can be even more effectively performed on the vast open surface of a whiteboard wall. Instead of using small pieces of paper to write down ideas related to the session’s topic, participants can write their thoughts on separate sections of the whiteboard wall in large lettering for all to see. Then after a set number of minutes, each team member can move to a different part of the wall and build on the ideas written by the previous writer, adding as much creative input as they want. Next, after another few minutes, the participants move again until they’ve given their input on all the sections of the wall written on by the group. Finally, now that the initial three ideas and subsequent contributions of all the participants have been posted on the wall, the group can review one another’s thoughts and choose those that are the most interesting and worthy of further discussion.

In such an exercise, compared to the cramped writing spaces of notepaper, the vast area of a whiteboard wall promotes more intensive levels of creative thought. Individuals tend to feel freer to express their novel ideas when confronted by the large open-ended surface of a whiteboard wall. Also, using a smooth-flowing dry erase marker as opposed to a small pen also tends to stimulate people to freely bring forth whatever is on their minds. These qualities can be of great benefit in practicing brainwriting because having much more space to write on in much larger letters tends to trigger ideas that might not arise when a person is confined to using 8 ½” by 11” notepaper as a writing surface.

Make Use of Free Association aka Rapid Ideation

In rapid ideation, meeting participants write down all the ideas that come to mind in a designated amount of time before anything is discussed, analyzed, or expanded upon. When practicing this brainstorming technique, you’ll have to establish a time limit, or else you’ll risk losing the feeling of urgency among your team members.

This brainstorming technique can be helpful in avoiding the common problem of having an idea shelved before it has a chance to grow and develop. By letting all meeting attendees bring forth their thoughts before any critiquing begins, rapid ideation eliminates the premature quashing of potentially great ideas and lets them flow out without constraints. The time limit can also help to prevent people from talking themselves out of an idea before they even begin sharing it with others—a frequent brainstorming mistake.

Use Your Whiteboard Wall as a Medium for Visual Aids

Including finely crafted visual components in your meeting presentations can enhance communications with team members, making them feel more engaged and interested in the content you present. Employing well-produced slides and other high-quality visual media such as films and diagrams can help participants to better comprehend and feel involved with your material, and a whiteboard wall is an ideal surface on which to perform such visual work. Designing and conducting graphic presentations are becoming increasingly essential tasks for doing business in today’s high-tech world of telecommuting and virtual communications.

Record All Significant Ideas and Input for Current and Future Reference

When you do a virtual meeting presentation, you should make a habit of writing down all the significant ideas and data put forward by the attendees on your whiteboard coated wall for all your team members to view and provide feedback on as the meeting progresses. Then you can erase and add more textual content and visuals whenever fresh ideas and information come up. The large dimensions and easy visibility of the content on your whiteboard wall will enhance the quality of your presentations, your communications with team members, and your team’s note-taking during virtual meetings, thus helping you to develop your individual brand and professional persona and boost your company’s productivity and profits. Then, after your virtual meetings are finished, you can take pictures of the results that you and the team members produced on the whiteboard wall and send them to the participants and other relevant parties for future reference and input.

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Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Whiteboard Paint Reduces the Need for Electronic Devices

Of the many environmental benefits of applying ReMarkable dry erase paint, one of the greatest is that it reduces the use of electronic products such as tablets and laptops, which generate an enormous quantity of waste that has devastating effects on Earth’s environment. As the amount of e-waste dramatically increases year by year, solutions for its proper recycling have lagged far behind. Although it is essential to give e-waste items to a certified recycling company that meets strict requirements for handling these materials, many individuals and businesses fail to do so. Their old electronics end up in landfills, producing toxic results for our air, water, and soil. The main hazardous substances to be found in discarded electronic products are lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc, yttrium, chromium, beryllium, nickel, brominated flame retardants, antimony trioxide, halogenated flame retardants, tin, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and phthalates. The presence of these and other toxins in our planet’s ecosystem can be greatly reduced through the use of whiteboard-painted walls in place of electronic devices.

Huge amounts of electronic scrap

poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. Shortages in raw materials needed to make electronics have brought forth a new industry called “urban mining.”

The start of the 21st century has witnessed the generation of huge amounts of electronic scrap, whose careless recycling in both developed and developing nations poses a great risk both to the environment and to public health. As more people buy electronic gadgets, manufacturers are starting to experience shortages of the raw materials needed to make their products, so reclaiming and reusing the constituents of discarded e-products, called “urban mining,” makes good financial sense. A recent study conducted in China revealed that traditional mining of copper, gold, silver, and aluminum from ore is 13 times more costly than recovering these metals through the urban mining of electronic waste.

E-waste recycling involves taking old electronic devices apart

making it an expensive undertaking. Many companies illegally export e-waste to 3rd world nations where recycling is much cheaper but more destructive to the planet.

Proper or formal e-waste recycling typically involves taking old electronic devices apart, separating and categorizing their contents by material, and then cleaning them. Items are then mechanically shredded for further sorting through the use of advanced separation equipment. Companies that perform this service must adhere to strict health and safety guidelines and use pollution-control technologies that reduce the environmental and public health hazards of handling e-waste. All these procedures make formal recycling an expensive undertaking. As a result, many companies and countries illegally export their e-waste to developing nations where recycling methods are more cost-effective but also much more destructive to the planet.

In the unindustrialized nations where much of this illegal e-waste processing occurs, air pollution levels and concentrations of heavy metals are especially high around so-called “recycling plants,” as compared to other regions. These sites are typically backyard operations where impoverished local residents process the obsolete electronics by hand, separating them into parts to extract valuable metals such as gold, silver, and copper before disposing of the rest in landfills. Some metals and plastics are melted down, and those materials that can’t be feasibly processed accumulate in massive dumps near inhabited places and waterways. Sometimes, toxic fumes are inhaled directly as metals from the parts are burned in open bonfires.

Air-quality in e-scrap yards have highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins known

due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

A typical site where these crude e-waste recycling methods are used is a cluster of villages in southeastern China known as the world’s largest dumping ground for electronic scrap from the United States. There local villagers remove solder from circuit boards over coal-fired grills, burn plastic casings from wires to extract the copper, silver, and mine gold by soaking computer chips in pools of hydrochloric acid. An air-quality study conducted in the area found that it had some of the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world due to its e-waste industry. Dioxins are a group of chemically related compounds that are considered persistent environmental pollutants (POPs).

Dioxins are found around the globe in local ecosystems, where they accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. These chemicals are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental issues, damage the immune system, interfere with the action of hormones, and cause cancer. Due to their potentially lethal nature, prevention or reduction of human exposure is best accomplished through direct measures, such as strict control of e-waste recycling processes to reduce the production of dioxins. Another approach is the application of ReMARKable whiteboard painted walls in schools, offices, and other facilities to reduce the use of electronic devices, which are some of their main sources.

E-waste recycling is detrimental to the health of the workers

Chronic exposure to the pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood.

For the above-mentioned reasons, the current global recycling system is detrimental to the health of the workers who improperly handle e-waste without protection from dangerous materials and is also a direct cause of contamination in the surrounding environment. Chronic exposure to the atmospheric pollution emitted from e-waste dumpsites causes high concentrations of heavy metals such as lead, copper, zinc, nickel, barium, and chromium to be present in human blood and may be related to hypertension, abnormally low levels of blood oxygen, and other conditions in people working in or living near the sites. The trigger for the air-polluting effect of e-waste is the fact that when the material is heated by overexposure to the sun, for instance, these metals along with other toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere, causing one of e-waste’s most harmful effects.

Lead is found in almost all Electronic devices

which are becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When lead is released into the environment near these dumpsites, it can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Regarding lead, almost all electronics contain it, and today these devices are growing in number and becoming obsolete at an astounding rate. When discarded, some of our most advanced technological devices represent rapidly expanding and often unregulated exposure to this highly poisonous metal, which plagued even the ancient Romans. A University of Florida environmental scientist recently studied the ecological impact of the lead found in 12 different types of electronic items commonly discarded in landfills. In a report sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), he presented his finding that the items leached lead at concentrations above the EPA threshold for categorizing a type of waste as hazardous. When released into the environment near these dumpsites, lead can damage the blood, kidneys, and nervous systems of people in the area.

Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, and computer chips

In large doses, arsenic is lethal along with being a known carcinogen, cited to trigger skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

The air around e-waste dumps is also high in arsenic, various acids, and other potentially toxic chemicals, including mercury and brominated flame retardants. Concerning arsenic, the reckless disposal of e-waste constitutes one of the most common sources of the inorganic form of this poison. Arsenic is present in circuit boards, LCD displays, computer chips, and other electronic components, and as these parts accumulate in landfills, the arsenic present seeps into the surrounding land, affecting its soil chemistry and possibly the contents of groundwater as well. The presence of arsenic in groundwater and soil has varying effects on different organisms and may be harmful to both land and sea animals. In humans, ingesting arsenic in low doses causes irritation of the digestive system, and in large doses, it’s lethal. Arsenic is also a known carcinogen, being cited as a trigger for skin cancer, liver cancer, and other forms of the disease.

Health risks with chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater also exist

The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Another common method of e-waste disposal is to simply burn the unusable parts after sorting. Introducing arsenic into the atmosphere in this way also has serious implications for human and animal health. For example, research by the National Cancer Institute has shown a linear relationship between inhaling arsenic and the development of lung cancer, as well as a wide range of nervous disorders. Although many states in the US have enacted landfill bans for most consumer electronics and appliances, the dangers associated with the chemicals from e-waste leaching into soil and groundwater remain. The potential threat to groundwater quality is of special concern in those states that have yet to enact landfill-ban legislation to control such waste.

Considering the many harmful environmental consequences related to electronic waste disposal, choosing economical, long-lasting, and eco-friendly ReMARKable Whiteboard Paint is a sensible alternative for all types of applications since it minimizes the need for laptops, tablets, and other devices, providing a highly flexible medium for conveying information and ideas in offices, schools, and other settings.

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Dry-Erase Wall Quotes for June 2021

June: The Beginning of Summer and a Time for New Growth

For many people, June is the most pleasurable month of the year. It signals the start of summer and brings sunny days, trips to the mountains, fun at the beach, and a host of other warm-weather activities. June is named after Juno, the ancient Roman goddess associated with spring, new growth, and women’s wellbeing. Juno was also the deity linked with marriage, so June is considered an auspicious month to tie the knot. Below is a collection of wise, perceptive, and sometimes humorous quotes about June for posting on your dry-erase painted wall. Let them provide you with a bit of inspiration while operating in your home office, classroom, business office, or other area, and offer you ideas for school writing assignments and the like.

The Positive Effects of Inspirational Dry-Erase Wall Quotes

Research has shown that such inspirational quotes have a positive impact on our emotions and attitudes. Since humans are generally optimistic by nature, we look for inspiration in the lives and ideas of positive role models, so uplifting quotes affect us on a basic psychological level. This is one reason that famous quotations and aphorisms are passed down from one generation to the next. Accordingly, to help preserve an upbeat attitude and provide yourself with a daily dose of motivation, you can regularly post these quotes on your dry-erase wall to inspire you in your work activities or help your homeschooled children learn better during the month of June. In this way, you might gain some positive food for thought, as well as a bit of humor and guidance to help you tackle daily tasks more successfully.

Upbeat Thoughts and Feelings about June to add to your Dry-Erase Wall.

1. “Far up in the deep blue sky, Great white clouds are floating by;/All the world is dressed in green;/Many happy birds are seen,/Roses bright and sunshine clear/Show that lovely June is here.”
– F. G. Sanders (Canadian poet)

2. “June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.”
– Joan D. Chittister (US nun, theologian, author, and speaker)

3. June Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine The Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights And scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine, The foliage of the valleys and the heights. Mine are the longest days, the loveliest nights; The mower’s scythe makes music to my ear; I am the mother of all dear delights; I am the fairest daughter of the year.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (US poet and educator)

4. “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.”
– James Russell Lowell (US romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat)

5. If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
– Bernard Williams (English moral philosopher)

6. What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
– Gertrude Jekyll (British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer, and artist)

7. “Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.”
– Hal Borland (US author, journalist, and naturalist)

8. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
– Al Bernstein (US sportscaster, writer, stage performer, recording artist, and speaker)

9. “June is the gateway to summer.”
– Jean Hersey (US writer on nature and gardening)

10. “No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.”
– James Russell Lowell (US romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat)

11. “To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June.”
– Jean Paul Sartre (French philosopher, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, biographer, and literary critic)

12. “And since all this loveliness cannot be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.”
– Abba Woolson (19th-century US writer)

13. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
– L. M. Montgomery (Canadian author)

14. “The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling lake, the satin-green lawns rippled occasionally in a gentle breeze: June had arrived.”
– J.K. Rowling (British author, philanthropist, film producer, television producer, and screenwriter)

15. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
– Marie Lu (US young adult author)

Dry-Erase Wall Quotes about Gardening and Nature in June

16. “In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.”
– John Steinbeck (renowned US author), The Winter of Our Discontent

17. “It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.”
– Henry David Thoreau (renowned US naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher)

18. “In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.”
– Aldo Leopold (US author, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist)

19. “June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.”
– Virginia Woolf (20th century English writer)

20. “June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers.”
– Lucy Larcom (US teacher, poet, and author)

21. “All June I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.”
– Robert Browning (English poet and playwright)

22. “Do not the bright June roses blow to meet thy kiss at morning hours?”
– William Cullen Bryant (US romantic poet, journalist, and newspaper editor)

23. “It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses.”
– Nathaniel Parker Willis (US author, poet, and editor)

24. “On this June day, the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year, those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled.”
– Francis King (British novelist and short story writer)

25. “At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (US writer, poet, editor, and literary critic)

26. “I know well that the June rains just fall.”
– Uejima Onitsura (Japanese haiku poet)

Additional Dry-Erase PaintednWall Quotes about June

27. “Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there’s no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.”
– Nancy Gibbs (US essayist, speaker, and presidential historian)

28. “Green was the silence, wet was the light; the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
– Pablo Neruda (Chilean poet-diplomat and politician)

29. “In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.”
– Amor Towles (US novelist)

30. How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness, how the time has flown! How did it get
so late so soon?
– Dr. Seuss (US children’s author, cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker)

31. “A cold in the head in June is an immoral thing.”
– L.M. Montgomery (Canadian author)

32. “It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton (US author)

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