Today’s Sydney Morning Herald asked “Does Google know too much about you?“:
“Google, the world leader in web search services, is the focus of mounting paranoia over the scope of its powers as it expands into new advertising formats from online video to radio and TV, while creating dozens of new internet services.True, the Silicon Valley company has millions of people telling it daily what’s apparently on their minds via simple Web searches, generating mountains of information about consumer behaviour.”

This is a very interesting question that seems to be coming up …

Today’s Sydney Morning Herald explains that the New South Wales Government plans to introduce electronic whiteboards and web-conferencing to NSW Schools.
“The State Government will install 200 high-tech digital whiteboards in NSW public schools, which it says will “transform the way education is delivered”, over the next year.The interactive whiteboards, along with video-conferencing technology and e-learning tools, will take up $28 million of tomorrow’s 2007-08 state budget.”

From personal experience with web conferencing in education, the “wow factor” these technologies bring is quite effective in engaging students. The key however – …