Wipeboard or whiteboard?

[Dilbertian]

Both make sense, in a painful way. But I know which one I think is correct!

I think it is a whiteboard

Whiteboard, as opposed to Blackboard

Whiteboard

Whiteboard. In all my years of teaching I've never heard anyone say wipeboard, I'd presume they were actually saying whiteboard but had an accent?

Whiteboard pens have whiteboard pen written on them.

I've never heard anyone say wipe board.

Whiteboard. But ‘wipeboard’ seems like a textbook example of an eggcorn.

It's a whiteboard. Someone has just been mishearing, me thinks.

Whiteboard.
As in a board that is white.
Same as blackboard is a board that is black.

Although I am sure when I was a kid they were a really dark green more than a pure black.

But that's not the point.

It's whiteboard.

Whiteboard. It is possible to wipe a whiteboard, but not essential.

Maybe it's write board.

A blackboard would equally be a wipe board if a white board was a wipeboard. You wipe chalk off a blackboard. So it's a black wipeboard.

You also get interactive whiteboards which generally aren't wiped.

@AllTipAndNoIceberg I was today years old when I first heard the expression 'eggcorn'. Thank you for increasing my lexicon.

If it is black it is a blackboard.
If it is green it is a chalkboard.

And you can stick something to it with gluetack, which is what my DD calls blutack.

Surely you know which one is correct, what do you mean by which one you think ?

Eggcorn - what a fab word, thanks!

(whiteboard)

Dc told me their teacher wrote a list of instructions which included that they should write the answers on their wipeboards. Dc did not query it in class, but told me about it and then wrote down what they had seen.

Thats pretty worrying, how could one qualify as a teacher and not know the name of a basic piece of equipment?

How old is DS? I honestly can't think of any class I've ever taught where at least one child wouldn't have corrected that kind of glaring error.

I'm also amazed this person works in a school and doesn't know the name of such a basic piece of equipment, was there a TA in the class who also didn't mention it?

Interactive whiteboard is the big thing in the class that replaced a blackboard. Wipeboards are the small A4 sized boards kids get to write on with a marker that can be wiped.

The small boards used in class are also called whiteboards and have been in all the schools I've ever worked in which must be well in the hundreds. As a previous poster said you write on them with whiteboard pens. I've literally never come across anyone who called it a wipe board, where abouts are you from I wonder if it's a thing outside the UK?

The small ones are called whiteboards not wipe boards.

Small ones are mini white boards.
That's what they are in the catalogue I can't afford to buy a new set from.

I would call them whiteboards, however it's way over the top to start slating the teacher (for those of you that have). If you Google wipe board, those little whiteboards come up. It's entirely possible the teacher ordered them from somewhere that calls them wipeboards and/or she calls them that to differentiate between them a larger whiteboard.

It's hardly solid proof that she's an idiot who shouldn't be teaching.