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Re: binders

From: Maggie White (mwhiteaz)
Date: Sat Jun 10 2000 - 20:21:06 PDT

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    Betty Bowen wrote:
    >
    > After all the discussion on sketchbooks/visual journals, etc. I was
    > wondering if anyone who uses the binding machines (plastic or wire?, manual
    > or electric?) has one in their art room, or if they use one in the office
    > instead. <snip>

    Betty,

    I had my students use the English Dept's binder two years ago to make
    sketchbooks. It was kind of a pain: I precut all the covers
    (posterboard), backing (cardboard from soda flats), and sketch paper. I
    had the students assemble their sketchbooks and cut the holes for the
    combs, then put the combs on. One machine for 30 students, some of them
    clueless because they didn't listen or watch the demo, so they screwed
    theirs up and wanted more materials; it took a couple of periods to get
    them all done. Meanwhile, of course, the ones who were done first had
    to be kept busy. It's not all that easy to put the papers on the combs;
    we couldn't just slide the whole sketchbook on and then close the comb.
    It usually had to be done in sections. Later in the semester, when
    students had to add more paper, I had to locate the binder in the
    English Dept. The students wanted to add the new paper to the back of
    the sketchbook, of course, which meant having to remove _all_ the
    previous papers first. By that time, some were pretty ragged and didnt'
    want to go back on very easily. Needless to say, I didn't use it for
    sketchbooks again.

    Maggie 

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