Blackboard Drawing

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitney, Frederick, 1858-1949

Contributor:

Bailey, Henry Turner, 1865-1931

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Blackboard Drawing" by Frederick Whitney is a monograph published in the early 20th century, specifically in the early 1900s. The book serves as an instructional guide focused on the use of blackboard drawing in education, emphasizing its significance as a dynamic tool for teachers to illustrate subjects and enhance students' understanding. It illustrates various techniques and approaches that educators can adopt to make lessons more engaging through visual expression. The content of the book revolves around practical methods for drawing on a blackboard, offering step-by-step instructions for teachers to create illustrative sketches related to topics such as geography, history, and nature. Whitney advocates for a more spontaneous and expressive use of drawing as a means of communication between teachers and students, rather than a mere decorative endeavor. The techniques discussed involve various strokes and approaches to represent objects, landscapes, and scenes in a way that supports educational objectives, thus helping to cultivate a rich learning environment that values artistic expression as a vital component of teaching. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Credits:

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 69.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2010-06-11