1. Introduction
Digital Collaboration
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave for Education
Google WAVE for Education
CESI Conference 2010
Portlaoise College
John Jennings
Tipperary Institute
6th February 2010
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
2. Introduction
Digital Collaboration
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave for Education
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Digital Collaboration
What We Have Now
Problems With Current Tools
Google’s Panacea
3 So What Exactly is Wave
The Interface
Features
Wave Philosophy
4 Wave for Education
General Use Scenarios
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
End
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
3. Introduction
Digital Collaboration
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave for Education
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Digital Collaboration
3 So What Exactly is Wave
4 Wave for Education
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
4.
5. Introduction
Digital Collaboration
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave for Education
John Jennings
ICT Specialist in Tipperary Institute
Academic
Web Programming
Content Management
XML
Educational Technologies
Instructional Design
Systems Administration
Developmental
Moodle
ICT in Education Conference
Open Source
Email: seoinin@gmail.com
Twitter: @seoinin
www: http://learning.tippinst.ie
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
6. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Digital Collaboration
What We Have Now
Problems With Current Tools
Google’s Panacea
3 So What Exactly is Wave
4 Wave for Education
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
7. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
Mostly We Use
Basic Toolset
Phone Presentation tools
Email USB Drive
Word Processors HardDrive
Spreadsheets School Shared Folder
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
8. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
Sometimes We Use
Advanced
Wiki’s
Twitter
Moodle
Google Docs
Facebook
Moodle
Bebo
Sharepoint
Skype
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
9. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
Problem with Current Model
Standard Applications
Collaborative working difficult to achieve
How do you manage workflow with existing tools
Separate toolset architecture
Mashups? e.g embed interactive apps in email or documents
Audit trail
Who changed what? When? Why?
Email
Essentially propagates multiple copies and versions of messages
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
10. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
The Big Problem with Email
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
11. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
Wave’s Solution: Conversations as Live Documents
Google describes it1 as equal parts conversation and document.
The goal of Google Wave is to collaborate INSIDE email rather
than using email to ARRANGE to collaborate.
1
http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
12. Introduction
What We Have Now
Digital Collaboration
Problems With Current Tools
So What Exactly is Wave
Google’s Panacea
Wave for Education
The Wave Model
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
13. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Digital Collaboration
3 So What Exactly is Wave
The Interface
Features
Wave Philosophy
4 Wave for Education
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The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave’s Features
Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just a
few:
Real-time:
Embeddability:
Applications and
Extensions:
Wiki functionality:
Open source:
Playback:
Natural language:
Drag-and-drop file
sharing:
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20. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave as a Wiki
Use Wave to collaboratively edit a document
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
21. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave Extensions
Add rich interactive media like videos, images, maps, and
polls in-wave
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The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave Extensions
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
23. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave Extensions
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
24. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Drag-and-drop file uploads
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25. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Drag-and-drop file uploads
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26. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave Playback
Play back and copy earlier versions of a wave, allowing you to
revert to an older state of a given wave, or see how it changed
over time
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27. Introduction
The Interface
Digital Collaboration
Features
So What Exactly is Wave
Wave Philosophy
Wave for Education
Wave is Open Source
The core Wave protocol2 is open source
Wave is an open network
Wave is a distributed network model
It should make rapid progress
Community contributions are fundamental
Decisions are made in public
2
http://www.waveprotocol.org/
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28. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Outline
1 Introduction
2 Digital Collaboration
3 So What Exactly is Wave
4 Wave for Education
General Use Scenarios
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
End
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29. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Uses For Wave
As a group collaboration tool, Wave’s primary purpose is to reduce
the inefficiencies of individuals duplicating the work of their
teammates, enabling people to work together simultaneously. Just
a few of the best ways to use this kind of live group co-editing are:
Taking meeting notes
Group brainstorming
Multimedia chat sessions
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
More Uses
Collaborative Note Taking
Wave as a Debate Host
Wave as a Group To-do List and Daily Work Log
Wave as an Event Planner
Wave for Collaborative Meeting Minutes
Wave for Project Management
Wave as a Conference Backchannel
Wave for Breaking News
Wave for QA
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Even More Uses
Lesson/activity planning
Collaborative book club
Group blogging
Real-time international exchanges.
Curriculum planning
Planning presentations.
Planning school trips
Report cards? Shared between staff, student parents.
Creation and collaboration of a students eportfolio
Resource sharing
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Confused?
Conversation-as-document is a whole new paradigm with no
existing precedent.
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33. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Confused?
Conversation-as-document is a whole new paradigm with no
existing precedent.
Conversation trees, or non-linear message threads, are chaotic.
John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education
34. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Confused?
Conversation-as-document is a whole new paradigm with no
existing precedent.
Conversation trees, or non-linear message threads, are chaotic.
Document versioning is foreign
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35. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Confused?
Conversation-as-document is a whole new paradigm with no
existing precedent.
Conversation trees, or non-linear message threads, are chaotic.
Document versioning is foreign
Wave isn’t a finished product yet
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36. Introduction
General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Demonstration
Demo (Time Permitting!)
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Gadgets 1
Gadget Sources
http://completewaveguide.com/guide/WaveG adgetshttp :
//techpp.com/2009/10/14/ultimate − list − of − google − wave −
gadgets − and − tools
Like/Dislike
http://www.nebweb.com.au/wave/likey.xml
Poll
http://wave-poll.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/poll.xml
Voice Recording
http://wave-
gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml
iframe
http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Gadgets 2
HTML
http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml
Chart
http://everybodywave.appspot.com/gadget/chart.xml
Picassa / Flickr
http://wave-picasa.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/picasa.xml
Mindmap
http://cactus-
wave.appspot.com/net.brucecooper.mindmapgadget.MindMapGadget/
Fridge Magnet poetry
http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Bots
Wikify - wikifier@appspot.com
Polly the Pollster - polly-wave@appspot.com
TwitUsernames - twitusernames@appspot.com
Tweety - tweety-wave@appspot.com
Amazon - amazon-withwaves-com@appspot.com
Eliza (auto-chat bot, Shrink!) - elisarobot@appspot.com
Calculations - calcbot@appspot.com
Grauniady(Search the Guardian with Google Wave) -
grauniady@appspot.com
Tagdef (hashtags, http://tagdef.com ) - tagdef@appspot.com
Dicerolling robot - dice-y@appspot.com
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
Links
http://wave.google.com/using-wave.html
http://completewaveguide.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQw
http://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/google-wave-
in-education/
http://c4lpt.co.uk/ReadingLists/googlewave.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo
http://www.slideshare.net/seoinin/john-jennings-wave-for-
education
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General Use Scenarios
Digital Collaboration
Specific Classroom Use Scenarios
So What Exactly is Wave
End
Wave for Education
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