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Where can I buy cheap overhead transparencies?

  • 24-01-2011 1:53pm
    #1
    Blinking_Badger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭


    Hey all,

    I'm a PGDE student and need lots of transparencies for my TP folder. Does anyone have any advice on where to buy cheap ones that can go through a photocopier without melting/smudging? I've bought some before in Easons but they were quite expensive-about 8 or 9 euro for a pack of 10.

    As I said I'm a student so cheaper would be preferable!

    Thanks,
    BB


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  • #2
    niall3r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 133 ✭✭niall3r


    This is probably not very helpful but there is also the option of data projectors and powerpoint presentations if possible.
    You can just print out the powerpoints you use and include them in the folder which makes it appear bulkier. You can also include pictures which kids seem to learn well through.
    Using powerpoints is also very good in case you are doing your dip in UCD because we were told last year that we were the last group who would be handing up hardcopies. All future ones would be in CD/USB format.
    Apart from that http://www.amazon.co.uk/overhead-projector-transparency-210x297mm-compatible/dp/B003SCJP12/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295878751&sr=8-1 or somewhere better online would probably be your best bet.

    Good luck.


  • #3
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    sorry now and probably not being helpful but what teacher trainer is encouraging acetates in this day and age especially after a grant to put a computer and projector in every classroom in this country


  • #4
    starre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭starre


    A lot of schools don't have computers and projectors in any classroom, let alone in every classroom. That might be the reality that the OP is experiencing.

    And I have come across young teachers who were not allowed to use computers in their teaching practice classes by their schools.

    Acetates are still useful for drawing diagrams, doing science/maths equations, especially ones that weren't planned.

    OP did you ask the school if they'll supply them to you? They usually have the ones that don't melt.


  • #5
    delta_bravo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,567 ✭✭✭delta_bravo


    TheDriver wrote: »
    sorry now and probably not being helpful but what teacher trainer is encouraging acetates in this day and age especially after a grant to put a computer and projector in every classroom in this country

    I use a data projector but acetates are useful for many things, particularly mapwork (contour lines etc.) and graphs


  • #6
    TheDriver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭TheDriver


    Thats fair enough, I know in my place you would have trouble finding an overhead projector to be honest.


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  • #7
    Blinking_Badger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 165 ✭✭Blinking_Badger


    Thanks to everyone for their comments.

    To clarify, I'm a trainee science teacher on block teaching practice and in between the 1st & 2nd blocks.

    Just as I was leaving 1st block in November all the teachers in my school got a laptop and there was a guy going around installing data projectors...but I didnt get a chance to check out if they'd be in every classroom or not due to snow closing the school. One room i was in didn't have a permanent OHP let alone a data projector so just want to make sure I'm ready with my acetates just in case.......

    niall3r, thanks for your suggestions, I'm in NUIG and so far there has been no mention of getting rid of the hard copy TP file but its prob only a matter of time.

    starre & delta_bravo, you're dead right, they're really handy for plotting graphs I haven't asked my school as I just presumed that it's up to me to get them if I want them seeing as their part of my folder......but is that what teachers normally do???

    TheDriver, sounds like you're lucky enough to be in a well-equipped school.

    Thanks again,
    BB


  • #8
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,316 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Talk to the school secretary and see can he/she put in an order for you. They all get their supplies from office companies who charge a lot less than retail outlets.


  • #9
    starre
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭starre


    When I did my dip they accepted a photocopy of the acetates in the folder. Freed up a few to wipe clean. Ask your college if this is ok.


  • #10
    freire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 181 ✭✭freire


    They can be bought quite cheaply (I think around a tenner a hundred) in the photocopying place in UCD. The Eason's and the like's prices are extortionate.

    I find them useful for all sorts of reasons, not least of which my school has a fair bit to go on the integration of ICT into the classroom. If anyone thinks all schools have laptops and data projectors in every classroom, well it must be nice living such a gilded existence.


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