Google Wave by Simant Sharma

1. Simant Sharma

3. Google Wave December 12, 2009 | slide

4. Google Wave December 12, 2009 | slide

9. Folders/in box and contacts Your “waves” (conversations) Contacts in this Wave Embedded media

10. Note email like tools here. The widgets also go on this toolbar so adding assessment tools, images, maps etc is simple and fast. Tags for searching for and within waves etc Colour coded folders – click Brown and get only Shakespears wave Playback the wave to see who added/edited what in real time Reply to wave, insert reply (called a ‘blip’) like a threaded discussion forum

11. The beauty of Wave is that it is Open Source and already people are using the API to create wee gadgets. THIS voting gadget for example lends itself to traffic lighting/assessment.

12. Closed note labels The screen shows the trial Wave I started just to see how I could produce a wiki like interface which students could add to easily AND also have links, pictures and so forth readily available. The link in the right hand column takes them to the webpage. The wee blue balloons are extra information. For example here the blue balloon adds a comment that the witches are also known as the Weird Sisters. You can close all the balloons to let the kids work. They can add their own comments and any other definitions, pictures etc they might wish to add. They could even copy the whole wave to their own accounts and add their own individual notes.

13. Open note label – can be short or long

14. Note Sub note Image file You can add sub notes to the notes as here with the definition of who/what Graymalkin is, further explanations about witches’ familiars and even a picture showing the witches. Any media can go here: video, pictures, weblinks etc. Will try wallwisher and so on later this week.

15. Image in full (looks like Cooliris?)

16. Map – can be resized and move to show another location

17. Vocabulary/ stage directions etc

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