Chalk Talks
You don't hear very much these days about chalk talks. I have seen it mentioned on CNN a couple of times. Chalk talks were very much in back in the olden days. I remember hearing my Mother talk about chalk talks many years ago.
Actually, chalk talks are still very much in. Every time a teacher goes to the black board and draws a figure or writes a word on it she is doing a chalk talk.
Chalk talks were a popular act in Vaudeville. A performer did drawings on a blackboard as he, or she, delivered his monologue. Wintear McCay started doing Vaudeville chalk talks in 1906 . He often did caricatures as he did his talking. This went over well with the audience.
Preachers would do simple drawings on a chalk board to convey a point in their message. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and chalk talks seem to prove that.
posted by kyra lafain @ 6/12/2010 12:30:00 PM
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