John Jennings Wave For Education

IntroductionDigital Collaboration

So What Exactly is WaveWave for Education

Google WAVE for EducationCESI Conference 2010

Portlaoise College

John JenningsTipperary Institute

6th February 2010

John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education



Outline

1 Introduction

2 Digital CollaborationWhat We Have NowProblems With Current ToolsGoogle’s Panacea

3 So What Exactly is WaveThe InterfaceFeaturesWave Philosophy

4 Wave for EducationGeneral Use ScenariosSpecific Classroom Use ScenariosEnd




Outline

1 Introduction

2 Digital Collaboration

3 So What Exactly is Wave

4 Wave for Education


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John Jennings

ICT Specialist in Tipperary InstituteAcademic

Web ProgrammingContent ManagementXMLEducational TechnologiesInstructional DesignSystems Administration

Developmental

MoodleICT in Education ConferenceOpen Source

Email: [email protected]: @seoininwww: http://learning.tippinst.ie




What We Have NowProblems With Current ToolsGoogle’s Panacea

Outline

1 Introduction

2 Digital CollaborationWhat We Have NowProblems With Current ToolsGoogle’s Panacea







Mostly We Use

Basic Toolset

Phone

Email

Word Processors

Spreadsheets

Presentation tools

USB Drive

HardDrive

School Shared Folder





Sometimes We Use

Advanced

Twitter

Google Docs

Moodle

Sharepoint

Wiki’s

Moodle

Facebook

Bebo

Skype





Problem with Current Model

Standard Applications

Collaborative working difficult to achieveHow 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





The Big Problem with Email





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 ratherthan using email to ARRANGE to collaborate.

1http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.htmlJohn Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education




The Wave Model




The InterfaceFeaturesWave Philosophy

Outline

1 Introduction


3 So What Exactly is WaveThe InterfaceFeaturesWave Philosophy



The Wave Interface

The Wave Interface

The Wave Interface

The Wave Interface

The Wave Interface




Wave’s Features

Google Wave has a lot of innovative features, but here are just afew:

Real-time:Embeddability:Applications andExtensions:Wiki functionality:Open source:Playback:Natural language:Drag-and-drop filesharing:





Wave as a Wiki

Use Wave to collaboratively edit a document





Wave Extensions

Add rich interactive media like videos, images, maps, andpolls in-wave





Wave Extensions





Wave Extensions





Drag-and-drop file uploads





Drag-and-drop file uploads





Wave Playback

Play back and copy earlier versions of a wave, allowing you torevert to an older state of a given wave, or see how it changedover time





Wave is Open Source

The core Wave protocol2 is open source

Wave is an open networkWave is a distributed network modelIt should make rapid progressCommunity contributions are fundamentalDecisions are made in public

2http://www.waveprotocol.org/John Jennings Tipperary Institute Google WAVE for Education



General Use ScenariosSpecific Classroom Use ScenariosEnd

Outline

1 Introduction



4 Wave for EducationGeneral Use ScenariosSpecific Classroom Use ScenariosEnd





Uses For Wave

As a group collaboration tool, Wave’s primary purpose is to reducethe inefficiencies of individuals duplicating the work of theirteammates, enabling people to work together simultaneously. Justa few of the best ways to use this kind of live group co-editing are:

Taking meeting notes

Group brainstorming

Multimedia chat sessions





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





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





Confused?

Conversation-as-document is a whole new paradigm with noexisting precedent.

Conversation trees, or non-linear message threads, are chaotic.

Document versioning is foreign

Wave isn’t a finished product yet





Confused?









Confused?









Confused?









Demonstration

Demo (Time Permitting!)





Gadgets 1

Gadget Sources

http://completewaveguide.com/guide/WaveGadgetshttp :

//techpp.com/2009/10/14/ultimate − list − of − google − wave −gadgets − and − toolsLike/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





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/net.brucecooper.mindmapgadget.client.MindMapGadget.gadget.xml

Fridge Magnet poetry

http://wave-api-dmo.appspot.com/public/fridge.xml





Bots

Wikify - [email protected]

Polly the Pollster - [email protected]

TwitUsernames - [email protected]

Tweety - [email protected]

Amazon - [email protected]

Eliza (auto-chat bot, Shrink!) - [email protected]

Calculations - [email protected]

Grauniady(Search the Guardian with Google Wave) [email protected]

Tagdef (hashtags, http://tagdef.com ) - [email protected]

Dicerolling robot - [email protected]





Links

http://wave.google.com/using-wave.htmlhttp://completewaveguide.com/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6pgxLaDdQwhttp://www.dontwasteyourtime.co.uk/elearning/google-wave-in-education/http://c4lpt.co.uk/ReadingLists/googlewave.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo

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