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Integrating Blackboard Solutions and the Google Wave
Platform
George Kroner
Agenda
• What is it? / What does it look like?
• How do people use it?
• How could you use it?
• Should you decide to use it…
What is Google Wave
• Wiki + IM + e-mail + collaboration + social networking/groups + media sharing + widgets all-in-one, in real time
• "equal parts conversation and document”
• Play-back-able stream of thought/activity
Other relevant background
• A tool once limited to a select few now available to everyone
• Now part of Google Apps for Education
• Unique offering in that it can be hosted by Google or locally at your institution – and it’s open source
What can it be used to do?
• Real-time collaboration
– Text-in-real-time is its top strength
• Resource sharing
– Photos, videos, files
• Extensions
– Video/audio chat communication– Tasks/Scheduling– Ratings/polls– Real-time translation– Maps
• Bots
Use cases
• Teacher– Ultimate discussion
forum– Teacher collaboration– Playback– Polls/surveys
• Student– Note-taking– Group areas– Real-time collaborative
document authoring
Search Google:Google Wave in educationGoogle Wave educational use cases
Techniques for Making Wave Work for You
• Embedding Google Wave into Blackboard
• Wave Widgets & Capabilities
• Linking to a Wave
• Bots & Advanced Integration (better get the tech folks!)
Demonstration – Blackboard Discussion Forum integration
• http://bit.ly/bbwave
• http://bit.ly/waveinedu
– https://wave.google.com/wave/#minimized:nav,minimized:contact,minimized:search,restored:wave:googlewave.com%252Fw%252BDefxt6ZiA
Is this the end of the LMS?
• Have you tried Google Wave?
– High barrier to get started
• Usability quirks
– Browser incompatibilities– Glitches and page refreshing– Can’t link directly to a Wave unless logged in first– No grade book or quiz integration
• Policy incompatibilities
– FERPA
• Technology in search of a purpose?
Please provide feedback for this session by [email protected].
The subject of the email should be title of this session:
Google Wave and Blackboard