E-books, tablets and ipads Vs books and laptops.

E-books, also known as digital books, are the evolution of conventional printed books, used for centuries to educate, inform and communicate ideas and knowledge. The electronic version of printed book became popular when amazon, the No 1 selling online book store in the U.S.A. introduced the Amazon Kindle, the ebook reader device. The kidle can hold up to 1500 books!
A few days ago apple computers entered the market, giving a boost to the ebook industry, by introducing the ipad, a multimedia device and ebook reader, that allows you to surf the net, read and buy newspapers and book online. The educational process can benefit a lot from the rich multimedia material and the open interactive environment used by such devices. A personal computer and the internet was not part of our lives 20 years ago but now are considered assential to our work and leisure time. Do you see ebooks as something that will replace printed books or as another gadget trend?

14year old student expelled because of Facebook!

A fourteen year old school girl from Chania, Crete,  was expelled from her school in the city of Chania because she had created a group in Facebook. The name of the group " I hate the head teacher of my school" became quite popular. About 100 students from the same school who joined the group expressed their thoughts about their teachers on Facebook! When the mother of a student found out about the group she soon informed the head teacher. As a result, the girl who created the group faced the teachers' council to explain her self. Despite her apologise, the teachers' council decided that she had to be expelled from her school, setting this way an example for her behaviour.  Do you agree with the decision?

Big Brother Google

Every time you search something on the internet you leave a trace, a road map of all the sites you visit, your preferences, personal information and data that you don't want other people to know. Google is the main search engine for the job and it is quite frightening to think that a single company holds the data of million of internet users! They own gmail, youtube, chrome, blogger, android, google maps, google talk and many more software companies that easily collect personal information from all of us. That means that if they want they can read our emails, see the videos we are watching, track the sites we visit, locate us through satelites and gps, even use our mobile phones to gather personal information in order to sell more targeted advertisment or sell our data to other companies! Isn't that Scary???