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[Hilda Bagnoli]

Hetold me I already have this amazing story involving all this research. He recommended hitting two birds with one stone. I was actually able to hit three birds with one stone because I could use it for my departmental honors thesis as well.

What was your journey to Blue Chalk Media in Portland?

After I graduated from the UO, I worked in Spain for a little while and eventually moved back to Portland for an internship with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Towards the end of my internship, I got a phone call from the Creative Director at Blue Chalk because they received a big project and wanted to fill positions. They wanted someone with good writing and research skills and heard about me through the grapevine and reached out.

I was familiar with Blue Chalk before that; I think people in the SOJC programs are familiar with Blue Chalk because they have a lot of connections with the UO and often speak to SOJC classes. I immediately said yes, and it worked out. I started out doing mostly writing and ended up learning on the job and transitioned into a full-time staff member as a producer.

How do your journalism skills influence your current position at Blue Chalk Media?

My journalism skills are essential in my role at Blue Chalk Media. I use them every day in the work I do, from interviewing people, editing stories, to working well with my team.

Do you have any advice for current SOJC students?

Meet with your advisor every single quarter. I met with my advisor every term, which was so instrumental in strategizing the kind of classes to take and how those skills would prepare me for what I wanted to do.

Do passion projects. Some of the best experiences I had in college were things I did on the side, like my thesis. I was once assigned to do a story for a class, and I had a different idea of where I wanted it to go. I met with my professor and said, I was assigned this type of story, but can I do it a little bit more this way? He said absolutely, and it ended up being one of my favorite pieces I wrote in college.

David Ian Chalk (born 1959) is a Canadian technology entrepreneur, cyber security specialist, and media personality who hosted the syndicated Dave Chalk's Computer Show,[1] and its subsequent incarnations Dave Chalk Computer Life,[2] Dave Chalk Connected Live,[3] Dave Chalk Connected,[4] and Dave Chalk Connected (In-flight).[5]

Chalk was born in Croydon, England in September 1959 and relocated with his family to British Columbia, Canada. He had dyslexia,[6] face blindness, and other conditions he acquired from brain damage at birth.[7]

The Chalk Paint dries pretty quickly, so you can knock this project out easily in just a day or two. Once I was finished painting, I sealed the console with the Annie Sloan Clear Soft Wax. The wax can be easily applied with a brush and gives the furniture some durability and protection against little boys driving their race cars up and down it. No surface is safe in my house full of boys!

#2 Painting the inside of a drawer eliminates that stinky, antique smell that lingers long after you bring it home. And because I knew these areas would have a lot of hands grabbing things in and out of them, I figured gray would show much less wear, tear, and dirty fingerprints than white would. I love my children dearly, but I do not love all the fingerprints they leave everywhere!

The Annie Sloan products I used in this post came from Annie Sloan Unfolded. You can locate a local retailer and follow them on Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest to discover more project inspiration!

Liz, that buffet table came out fabulous. I just love it!.. I have this old pine corner shelf that is in desperate need of a makeover. I think I will try your method. I really do need a fire place make over as well. I have to go read yours. You Inspire me. Have a great day!!

I love how this turned out. I have a old chest of drawers as our console table too. They work perfect for it. I have been wanting to try the chalk paint, all of the projects that I have been planned I already have paint purchased. But I am itching to try this, it seems soooooo much easier. I hate sanding

My life revolves around chalk. No matter where I've taught, no matter what I've taught, chalk has been a constant among the variables. Non-teachers probably think that chalk doesn't require much thought, but teachers know better.

Selecting the best chalk parallels selecting a good wine. Different teachers, of course, have various opinions concerning what makes a perfect piece of chalk, but we all look for the perfect chalk. Chalk is not uniform; it comes in different colors and consistencies. For example, I prefer a medium consistency yellow chalk. A soft white chalk makes marks that are easy to see from the back of the classroom, but softer chalk-marks are hard to erase completely. They always leave a faint ghost on the board. On the other hand, harder chalk, of any color, makes a faint, thin mark that is hard to see. Medium yellow chalk is bright enough to see, and it erases easily to make room for more stuff. That's why I like it.

Of course, the right chalk is useless without the right chalkboard. I haven't seen a true blackboard in a long time, but their rough texture often makes them hard to erase. Greenboards are the most common chalk media right now - and they are admirable chalk-writing surfaces - but whiteboards are becoming more and more popular. This trend disturbs me. Whiteboards require special markers, and they also require special solutions to clean them completely. More disturbing, however, are smartboards - computerized blackboards requiring an electronic stylus to write on. A technological wonder, certainly, but it just doesn't seem right.

I think what truly makes me uncomfortable about both whiteboards and smartboards is the smell. Chalk and chalkboards have the most wonderful smell. If education has a smell, that's it. To paraphrase Apocalypse Now, "I love the smell of chalk in the morning; it smells like victory." Whiteboards have a chemical odor, and smartboards smell like a TV monitor. It's just not the same. It's progress, I suppose, but I'm the nostalgic sort. I'll give up my chalk when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Believe it or not, there is equipment for chalk. The most useful is the chalk chuck, commonly called a chalk holder. The chalk chuck is that short, fat pen-shaped thingy that many teachers use when writing with chalk. Chalk chucks are the badge of a teacher, almost the baton of office. Physicians have stethoscopes, electricians have volt meters, and teachers have chalk chucks.

When I started teaching, a friend gave me a chalk chuck, a nice metal one that I used happily for many years. Somehow, that chuck made me feel like a real teacher, possibly because I can remember all my teachers having one. I was in the club, and the chuck was the key to the clubhouse. It represented everything good about teaching.

When I was teaching at Auburn, one day I accidentally left my chuck in a classroom. I didn't notice until the next morning. When I went back to get it, it was gone. I found out which teachers taught in that room after me, and I e-mailed all of them. Three e-mailed back to tell me they hadn't seen it, but I never heard from the other. I'm not sure, of course, and I don't want to accuse anybody, but I think I know where my old chalk chuck is.

Getting a new chuck was tough. Plastic chalk chucks abound, but they don't hold the chalk tightly enough to be of any use. How unpopular are plastic chucks? If a plastic chuck is left in the classroom, it will still be there tomorrow. Finally, I found a store with an older clerk who thought she "might have one in the back." I begged her to look, and I walked out ten minutes later about $8 poorer, but with a fancy new chuck. My old one was bare aluminum - my new one is glossy black like a sports car. It goes from zero to a chalkboard full of facts ("Hamlet was first performed in 1601," and "Shakespeare's theater looked like this") in nothing flat.

Like everything else, there is an esoteric side to chalk. I sometimes jokingly ask my students while erasing the board, "Ever wonder where the words go when I erase them?" The students giggle politely, like they do at all my lame jokes, but the words do go somewhere. Maybe into their notes, hopefully into their heads. I cannot believe that they go into some sort of limbo for the souls of lost notes. I may not have always been a good student myself, but I always was an interested student. I think of all the things that I must have seen written in chalk over the years. Some things were profound, some maybe silly, but all were magical. I know where the erased words went for me when my teachers erased them.

Using chalk pastels can seem intimidating and scary. Once you lay it down, it feels like there is no backing out. Plus, how do you blend them without ending up with mud? Patience and careful application is key.

Quality matters. Lower quality chalk has less pigment, so the colors will not be as rich. This may be an asset if you are timid about color. At some point however you will want a strong application of color.

I really like the Stabilo brand of chalk pastels. There are many brands, so the best way to find what you like is to experiment. Visit a local art supply store and try different ones, or buy the same single color from different brands.

To make painting easier, it's usually best to remove the hardware but I couldn't do that with this media stand because there were no screw heads on the inside of the drawers and the pulls seemed to be glued on. I wasn't worried about that though, because the drawers wouldn't be seen once the media stand was in place anyway.

If you need to stop your project in between like I did with this, (it's very rare that I can finish a project in one day or even two) to keep your brush fresh and not have to wash it in between coats you can just wrap it really tightly in cling film. That will keep it soft and stop it from hardening. You can leave it like that, well, I've left it like that for over a week sometimes and it's been perfectly fine when I go back to use it. It saves you washing the brush in between.

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