Help me pimp my lecture room
March 6, 2017 10:55 AM   Subscribe

I have some money to spend on our physics department colloquium room and I need help finding sliding chalkboards. I'm already getting a new carpet, a high-end projector, and acoustic baffles. But what I'd really like to do is get chalkboards that work like the one in this MIT lecture hall, with overlapping layers of chalkboard that you can move up and down. But I'm not having much luck finding a vendor. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Extra difficulty level: I must spend the money in the next two weeks or it goes away. So no architects - it must be off-the-shelf. Our physical plant people will install it.

Also, please don't tell me to do some fancy electronic thing. Our IT department is beyond useless, so anything along those lines breaks and then never gets fixed. Plus, this is for visiting lecturers to give math and physics talks, so there isn't time for people to learn how use it in their one-off lecture. Every time I give a talk at another school and they have such a thing it ends up either being a disaster or, best case, a PITA.

Also, other pimp-my-lecture-room ideas beyond what I'm doing are welcome.
posted by overhauser (3 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, looks like you meant to ask this on Ask MetaFilter, not on the MetaFilter front page. Go ahead and go again over there. Also maybe just ditch pimp-as-goofy-verb while you're at it? -- cortex



 
You have posted this in the wrong place.
posted by ryanrs at 10:56 AM on March 6, 2017


oops! That's not what I meant to do. Contacting the mods...
posted by overhauser at 10:57 AM on March 6, 2017


Oh, dear. This should be in the green.
posted by 80 Cats in a Dog Suit at 10:57 AM on March 6, 2017


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