In those preelectronic days, his job was to post stock price changes on the firm's blackboard.
Of course, this leaves open some questions Will Blackboard respond by cutting its prices?
The answers to these questions depends on how many professors swap Blackboard for Coursekit.
Today's kids do have it better--they'll never know the sound of fingernails screeching across a blackboard.
On the side of the school building sheared away by the earthquake is a green blackboard.
On a continuing-operations basis, Blackboard expects earnings of 20 cents to 22 cents per share for the third quarter.
Will Blackboard try to introduce Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about Coursekit in the minds of university administrators?
Blackboard (BBBB) shares soared 29% yesterday after the company said it has received unsolicited takeover offers.
Another of the blackboard's bold claims is an annual average household income in the district of 2, 200 yuan.
"West Side Story, " "The Blackboard Jungle, " Piri Thomas' book, "Down These Mean Streets, " all tried to capture this experience.
Cohen does not believe that Coursekit and Blackboard can co-exist within a university.
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Unless bad schools are indeed closed, his scheme will be as much good as a blackboard with no chalk.
"I was near the blackboard explaining the lesson when I heard the explosion, immediately followed by screaming, " he said.
He argues that economists should abandon blackboard deduction in favour of computer simulation.
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Most of the stereotypical photographs of scientists studying rows of equations on a blackboard are instructors explaining discoveries already made.
In Jiashan township, the mayor shows off a large blackboard advertising the material progress made by the district's 24, 000 people.
Closer to home, a highly educated hedge fund manager starts tutoring his nieces and nephews with a home-made remote Web blackboard.
Three-year-old Blackboard, which lets visitors build their own courses, hosts more than 27, 000 classes for students from kindergarteners to corporate learners.
With such writing on the blackboard, the teachers' unions have reached deep into their pockets to fight the spectre of competition.
Some of WebCT's salespeople left, but Blackboard was able to ensure ongoing client relationships without having to struggle to keep those clients.
Finally, there are startups like Blackboard.com and Kiko (Knowledge In, Knowledge Out) that dabble with both ad-supported free content and for-profit courseware.
Ms. Lam kept them, putting a blackboard, a whiteboard and a small desk in each as a nod to their original use.
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The odor of sweat, leftover food, and blackboard chalk filled the air.
The trend is a boon to companies such as 15-year-old Blackboard Inc.
For the full year, Blackboard predicted profit of 83 cents to 87 cents a share, while Wall Street is looking for 87 cents.
Cap Lavin died overnight in San Francisco and a team assistant scrawled "Do It for Cap" on the blackboard in the locker room.
Blackboard's clients were purchasing products and were locked into multiyear contracts, making it easy for the transition to occur without the loss of many sales.
Also, the people at WebCT didn't tend to feel their business was far superior to Blackboard, as many at Merrill felt about Bank of America.
His father, John, said the award had helped his son's confidence, following various problems at school, such as co-ordinating his writing and seeing the blackboard.
Roderick said sales in Blackboard's professional-services unit were hurt by brisk sales of the company's hosted solutions, which pushed some near-term revenue into future periods.
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