CeramicSteel in Classrooms

CeramicSteel in Classrooms

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A Learning Environment with Lasting Quality.

Creating dynamic and engaging learning environments is key to fostering student growth and success in today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape. The best way to offer an exceptional classroom solution is by providing durability, versatility, and aesthetics that enhance the educational experience.

Let’s explore how enameled steel elevates classrooms to new heights, transforming them into spaces that inspire learning and collaboration.

A Long-Lasting Impact

Polyvision’s enameled steel surfaces are engineered to withstand the rigors of classroom usage. With a resilient porcelain coating fused onto a steel core, these surfaces offer durability, ensuring they endure daily interactions, frequent cleaning, and heavy classroom traffic. This longevity allows classrooms to maintain a fresh and visually appealing environment for years.

Easy Maintenance and Sustainability

On top of that, Polyvision understands the importance of ease of maintenance in busy classrooms. The smooth enamel surface resists ghosting, stains, and scratches, making it effortless to clean and maintain. Additionally, Polyvision is committed to sustainability, employing eco-friendly manufacturing processes and materials whenever possible.

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Expression and Collaboration

Enameled steel surfaces serve as canvases for creative expression and collaboration. They can be transformed into whiteboards, writable surfaces, or magnetic boards, promoting student engagement, brainstorming, and interactive learning. From sharing ideas and solving problems together to displaying visual aids and fostering group activities, these surfaces empower students and educators to collaborate effectively.

Aesthetics that inspires

Enameled steel surfaces are not just functional but visually stunning as well. With a smooth and glossy finish, they add a touch of elegance and sophistication to any classroom. These surfaces are available in various colors, sizes, and designs, allowing educators to personalize their classrooms and create an environment that stimulates curiosity and motivation. These enamel surfaces also offer versatility in their applications. They can be utilized to optimize classroom functionality, from whiteboards and projection screens to display walls and room dividers.

Teachers can seamlessly integrate technology, create designated learning zones, and adapt their teaching methods to suit different subjects and teaching styles and simultaneously encouraging collaboration, creativity, and lifelong learning.

6 Tricks and Tips to Keep a Whiteboard Clean

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6 Tricks & Tips to Keep
a Whiteboard Clean

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Straightforward, whiteboards are incredibly versatile tools. And the main attraction of the tool is right in the name. A whiteboard surface continuously offers a fresh white slate, ready for new ideas, drawings, lists, and schedules.

But what happens when a whiteboard no longer stays white?

Mostly, when walking into classrooms, offices, or homes, you’ll see whiteboards that look slightly worn, with remnants of the last lesson or meeting erased but still reflecting on the board.

The process for how to maintain a whiteboard’s peak performance is a simple, inexpensive, and quick practice. Still, many owners aren’t aware that erasing content isn’t enough to keep a whiteboard clean.

Follow the six whiteboard tips and tricks below to keep your board looking brand new or transform one that has seen better days back to its original shine.

Tips & Tricks

  1. Follow the maintenance instructions
    This first tip may seem obvious, but people often need to pay attention to it when using a whiteboard. PolyVision is a world leader in producing white and chalk CeramicSteel boards for various environments. And our scientists at PolyVision say the number one way to keep a board looking new is to read the maintenance instructions before ever writing on the surface.
  2. Use erasers and cleaning solution.
    While erasing works wonderfully at first, its effectiveness wears off if more cleaning isn’t done. “Occasionally, we’ll receive a question about boards becoming more difficult to erase over time,” says Becky Lewis, a customer service representative for PolyVision.

When the customer is asked if they’ve ever cleaned their board, they’re often surprised that it must be done to maintain performance. Cleaning the board with a recommended solution always solves the issue of erasability with CeramicSteel.”

Note: keep your erasing tools clean or replace them when needed

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  1. Remove whiteboard ghosting
    If only erased, chemical from whiteboard markers builds up and forms a residue on the board. This residue causes a gloss difference on the board between unused areas and areas where the content was written. The gloss difference causes “ghosting” or outlines of previous work even after erasing.

To remove ghosting, wipe the board with a cloth dipped in a mix of isopropyl alcohol and water — the most effective whiteboard cleaner.

  1. Homemade whiteboard cleaner
    Again, a mix of isopropyl alcohol and water is the best solution to clean a whiteboard, but various other options work just as well.
    Using a cloth moistened with whiteboard cleaner is enough to keep a board clean if used every week.  Warm soapy water, window cleaner, and peroxide also work well.

Note: Avoid wax-based cleaners as they leave a pesky film on the whiteboard.

  1. Clean the whiteboard frequently
    Depending on the use of the board, it should be cleaned at different frequencies. When a teacher writes on the board all day, the board should be wiped daily with whiteboard cleaner. In the office, many teams keep notes and schedule up on a board for some time, making erasing and cleaning every day a hassle. In these instances, the content should be erased and the board cleaned before rewriting the content again at least once a week.
  2. How to remove permanent marker
    Worry may set in if you realize a permanent marker was used on a whiteboard, but don’t fear; even a permanent marker can be removed. Trace the permanent marker content with a dry-erase marker, erase it, and you’ll find a clean slate due to the non-polar solvent in dry-erase markers. Any cleaners mentioned above also contain organic solvents like 2-butoxyethanol that can help erase permanent pigment.
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