It helps students maximize their international exposure. WebBoard enhances IT literacy and uses of electronic communication. WebBoard archives all the message text and can help with research on writing such as second language acquisition, discourse analysis and English language corpora. Threats Dangers of plagiarism, copyright issues, time-consuming to respond to students after class. Dangers of being resource-based and technology driven.
Technology tends to dictate our goals.
Dangers of technophobia and technocentrism. One is the fear of technology and the other is the delusion that technology can fix anything. What is wrong with education cannot be fixed by technology. Technophobia and technocentrism are equal and opposite dangers. Our experience at CUHK found that the server sometimes hangs up after running the service for a couple of weeks.