Google Wave and teaching The announcement of Google’s new Wave technology seems to be causing equal parts excitement and bafflement. For education, it’s worth getting through the bafflement, because the potential is quite exciting. What is Google Wave? There’s many aspects, and the combination of features is rather innovative, so a degree of blind-people-describing-an-elephant will probably persist. As a social networking tool, Wave’s brain, erm, ‘wave’ is that it focusses on the conversation as the most important organising principle. As a new technology, then, Google Wave turns every conversation (or ‘wave’ in Google speak) into a live object on the internet, that you can invite people and other machine services (‘robots’) to. The fact that waves are live objects on the internet points to the potential depth of the new technology. The really exciting bit about Wave, though, is the promise that – like email and the web, and unlike most social network tools – anyone can play. But isn’t Google evil? Resources:
Using Gmail/Google with a collaborative project management tool You can now use your regular Google or Gmail account with an online collaborative project management tool such as GroupCamp Project. You no longer need to be a Google Apps for Business user to have your Google Calendar synced with your GroupCamp account or your Google Docs linked to your shared files in your online projects. With this new integration, GroupCamp allows you to securely access the data in your Google or Gmail account. You can manage authorizations and add multiple Gmail accounts to GroupCamp. Other project members cannot access the data in your personal Gmail account. To view the time for this webinar please use the Calendar feed on the right Agenda for this GroupCamp Project (Online Project Management software) webinar: Add or revoke authorizations with your GroupCamp account.
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Google Wave: A Complete Guide Last updated: January 29th, 2010 Today has been dominated by news and excitement surrounding Google Wave, Google's new real-time communication platform that will launch to the public on September 30th. In fact, there's been so much buzz that you might just not have enough time to read the thousands of articles being released on Google's biggest product launch in recent memory. To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave. This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. What is Google Wave? While we suggest reading our article on the launch of Google Wave for more detailed information, here's the sum of it: Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a few:
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web. Yesterday, during the Google I/O keynote, Google’s VP of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, laid out a grand vision for the direction Google sees the web heading towards with the move to the HTML 5 standard. While we’re not there yet, all the major browser players besides Microsoft are aligned and ready for the next phase, which will include such things as the ability to run 3D games and movies in the browser without additional plug-ins. But Google wants to take it one step further with a brand new method of communication for this new era. It’s called Google Wave. Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is. Having seen a lengthy demonstration, as ridiculous as it may sound, I have to agree. Features Maybe you want to add another friend to the wave. And from here we go much deeper. A New Web
Google Taps Chile for First Latin American Data Center | Wired Enterprise Google has decided to build its first Latin American data center in Quilicura, Chile, a suburb located 13 miles north of Santiago. The $150 million project, announced Thursday, is expected to be completed sometime next year. By setting up servers in Chile, Google will speed up its services to users in the region. “We’re building this data center to make sure that our users across Latin America and the world have the fastest and most reliable access possible to all of Google’s services,” the company said in a post to its website. Right now, Google is in the middle of a worldwide data center build-out. It’s also in the midst of building new facilities in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ireland, according to Kate Hurowitz, a Google spokeswoman. The company is at the forefront of a movement by the big web companies to build and operate their own data centers, rather than leasing data center space from third-party companies. The Quilicura data center will bring about 20 jobs to the region.
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Compre Got a research paper or thesis to write for school or an online class? Want to research using the Internet? Good luck. There’s a lot of junk out there — outdated pages, broken links, and inaccurate information. Google, the largest search database on the planet, currently has around 50 billion web pages indexed. Do you think your local or university librarian uses Google? Topics Covered in this Article Deep Web Search Engines | Art | Books Online | Business | Consumer | Economic and Job Data | Finance and Investing | General Research | Government Data | International | Law and Politics | Library of Congress | Medical and Health | STEM | Transportation Deep Web Search Engines To get started, try using a search engine that specializes in scouring the invisible web for results. Clusty — A metasearch engine that combines the results of several top search engines.INFOMINE — A virtual library of Internet resources relevant to university students and faculty. Art Books Online Business Consumer U.S.
What Intrigues Me About Google Wave Now that I’ve had a little while to think about it, I’m ready to distill my initial enthusiastic reaction to Google Wave down to a manageably short (and hopefully non-fanboi) post. Let me say at the outset that I have no idea whether Wave will succeed. I am convinced, however, that something like Wave will succeed, in part because much about it is not new. My initial thought was was, “Hey, somebody finally got Apple’s OpenDoc to work.” Scott Wilson twittered that Google had reinvented ActiveX. In some ways, Wave is, like many great inventions, an old idea with some new twists. At any rate, there are a number of elements to Wave that are particularly attractive and likely to change practice in the field of e-learning: A/Synchronousness Wave completely demolishes the line between synchronous and asynchronous communication. There are good reasons for this. Open Permissions A while back, I wrote a post imagining a wiki’ed learning environment, or a WeLE. Playback Fluid Grouping Federation
Google Wave Use Cases: Education Google Wave is a much hyped new Internet-based communications and collaboration platform. It was announced at the end of May, released as a 'Preview' product shortly after and 100,000 more invites were made available at the end of September. Early users reported mixed feelings. But one month after Google Wave was opened to tens of thousands of people, how are people using it now? What use cases are being discovered? What is Google Wave Again? A quick reminder of what Google Wave is. In a recent CNN profile, Wave creators Lars and Jens Rasmussen described it as making email "collaborative and instant." Wave in Class After searching some public 'waves,' we came across an educational wave. The wave was started to explore concepts like "Collaborative Note Taking" and "Wave as a Debate Host." This particular wave was framed at the start as being "a set of collaborative documents, supported by a chat." Will Wave Make Students Lazy? Conclusion
Does Google Wave Mean the End of the LMS? I suppose it was inevitable. At a time when even The Chronicle is asking whether Blackboard can be replaced by WordPress, a slick demo of a super-cool product like Wave was bound to trigger breathless speculation about the demise of the LMS. Equally predictably, the most enthusiastic predictions that the LMS will be replaced are being made by people who have already replaced their LMS. It is not terribly shocking to read Jim Groom predicting that this time the LMS is REALLY doomed!!!! (I mean that to be taken affectionately.) Me, I’m a live-and-let-live kind of guy. So the question I’m interested in is more nuanced than the one of whether the LMS is “dead.” To begin with, I think it’s worth taking a moment to consider what we mean when we refer to Google Wave. A lot of the email/discussion board/chat/wiki/floor wax/dessert topping craziness in Wave appears to come from Wave Server. Now, why would you want to do that without the full coolness that is Wave? So sure, the LMS may be dead.
Still Some Ripples in Google Wave Beta | CloudAve By Mark Fidelman on September 13, 2009 As part of a MeetUp this week, Gina Trapani founder of LifeHacker gave us an update on the status of Google Wave. Since another 100,000 people are to be given access to the Beta in a few weeks I was extremely interested in the update. Here’s my take: Despite Google’s recent announcement on Wave, I do not believe Wave is ready for it’s 100,000 customer preview on September 30. Overall, Google Wave is above and beyond email in usefulness and features. CIO Summary: Wave isn’t ready for the Enterprise and it doesn’t appear fit for distribution on September 30.
Learning Waves from Google Waves A ‘wave’ is a group conversation with lots of added functionality. There’s work waves, product waves, party waves – waves allow you to do whatever with whoever, whenever. Waves are hosted conversations combine email, messenger and social networking and media sharing – faster, more like real F2F group conversation with playback, drag and drop from desktop to browser. It pulls in mobile, blogs, Twitter, aggregates conversations, allows group editing, docs can include wave conversations (hide & show), spellchecks as you type, creates links a you type, polls, supports multilingual and has real time translation in 40 languages. So that’s it, an open source, browser-based, personal communication and collaboration tool – Google Wave. Learning Waves So what’s the impact on e-learning? First, the creation of e-learning content should be quicker and cheaper. Second, Wave could be used to teach and learn in groups. A ‘Learning Wave’ can allow any combination of teacher(s) and student(s) to:
Marissa Mayer on the future of Google Pretty much every product that Google works on has to go through gatekeeper Marissa Mayer, who decides whether it's ready to be released or needs more work. She even approves every single Google Doodle that adorns the search giant's homepages around the world. From being hired as the first female engineer nine and a half years ago to becoming one of the key decision makers at Google, she's come a long way. "We were very small, just 20 people," Mayer, now Google's vice president of search products and user experience, recalls. Mayer simply didn't anticipate that Google, which had just signed a deal to become Netscape's default search engine when she started, would turn into the biggest internet company in the world. Chance, it seems, is something Mayer doesn't rate that highly. Critics, notably Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, call her mechanical and robotic – and maybe she has to be to stay on top of it all. On top of that, 1,000-2,000 outside projects need to be reviewed.
Google helps the web to go social Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends. Friend Connect follows plans announced last week by the world's two biggest social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook. Data Availability and Connect let users move their personal profiles and applications to other websites. "Social is in the air," says Google's director of engineering David Glazer. During a conference call at Google's California headquarters, Mr Glazer told reporters: "Google Friend Connect is about being the 'long tail' of sites becoming more social." "Many sites aren't explicitly social and don't necessarily want to be social networks, but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other. Charlene Li, principal analyst at Forrester, told BBC News: "Google is tapping into the 'all things social' heat of the moment, but it's adding a different perspective, not as a data source and social network 'owner' but as an enabler."