"It takes the paper and pencil and re-entry out of it, " said Jeff Painter, information specialist for the WSDA's plant protection division.
Eleven years ago Ronald Stevens, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the UCLA School of Medicine, got fed up trying to test his medical students' diagnostic skills with paper and pencil.
While it doesn't exactly come as a surprise given recent developments, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has now told a House subcommittee that the Census Bureau will in fact be ditching its much-ballyhooed PDAs in favor of paper and pencil for the 2010 census.
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On Tuesday, floor traders wound up the day processing orders manually, using paper, pencil and in some cases white board to keep track of buy and sell orders, instead of using the electronic trading system that is supposed to be the show-piece of the hybrid model.
Before you read any further, take a piece of paper and a pencil and list what you think they are, from most important to least important.
Designers can use computers to draw, but Mr. Kane prefers to start with pencil and paper.
Why would someone who successfully uses Quicken or Mint.com take a pencil to paper and write?
Is it any wonder that fewer than 15% of taxpayers now complete their own returns with pencil and paper?
His true passion however, lies in pencil and paper, and a tablet computer.
Arbitron said that in that time it will extend the use of the paper-and-pencil diary system, a technology that hasn't changed since 1965.
And of course computers are extremely fast, so they can perform more calculations in a second than you could in a lifetime using pencil and paper.
Davis said it's time to do away with the old fashioned paper-and-pencil flight strip markings that controllers in towers have been using to track aircraft for decades.
Using only pencil and paper, an artist begins by transforming the city into a clockwork model, with mechanical diagrams detailing how the city will build itself in the title sequence.
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Plus, the MLDs really reinforced the notion of differentiated learning: By giving students the option of using pencil, paper, podcasts and so forth, we were allowing them to tap into their individual learning preferences.
If we need a new character and decide we need a new project, I just go home and do some thinking, some doodling with a pencil and paper until an idea comes to me.
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Guys like Gilani sweated the details and still used pen, pencil, graph paper, and old-fashioned calculators.
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Other students were sitting at their desks reading or doing pencil-and-paper homework.
But before providing the dictionaries, the researchers distributed a pencil-and-paper maze to each student, in which the goal was to help a trapped cartoon mouse find its way out.
An individual's learning style is usually determined by a pencil-and-paper test--of which there are now more than 50 available, with titles like the Cognitive Style Index and the Learning Style Questionnaire.
This was then placed in a pencil and used to scribble on paper imprinted with broken gold stripes.
These he transferred in light pencil onto large sheets of Arches 300-pound hot-press paper, some of them as much as six feet in length, at which point Zega set to work painting the reconstructed edifices in intense watercolor hues, taking as long as a month on each.
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