My current thoughts on Google Wave - A Wave needs to be focused focused focused. am finding the broader waves become very disorganized and hard to follow very quickly. Using the playback to view the most recent is awkward - especially for the larger wave. The larger waves load very slowly. My soft-skills counterpart Sid managed to get a Google Wave invite herself. Oh yeah - and as I type this, the manager and director are wandering around Educause looking for Google Wave invites. Start small, then go larger. Is it ideal? MORE >>

So I managed to get Google Wave invites for the other 2 members of our LMS Administration team. figured that Wave would help us improve our collaboration process - which currently consists of Elluminate or Virtual Classroom when we have the license space + teleconference (because not everyone has a working mic on their computers) + a word doc + multiple emails. Wave HAD to be an improvement. Setup: I created a Wave with a rough outline of decisions that needed to be made. then sent the Wave to my colleagues. Right? The Veteran humored us. this thing? MORE >>

As anticipated there are lots of new Google Wave resources appearing.  Yesterday I discovered The Ultimate Google Wave Guide for. Today, I've been reading a posting on Lifehacker, by Gina Trapani:  Google Wave Versus the Rest, Feature by Feature. As Wave combines features from email, instant messenger, Google Docs, wikis, and forums Lifehacker have created a quick visual of its offerings versus similar tools. I'm trying to keep track of useful Google Wave resources here. Students: 100 Tips, Tools, and Tricks. MORE >>

I've posted a couple of times now ( here and here ) on useful Google Wave resources. . Martin Hawksey, E-Learning Adviser at JISC RSC Scotland North and East, has now sent me two links to postings he has written on the MASHe blog on how to embed Google Wave into Blackboard: Embedding Google Wave into Blackboard - Here is an explanation of how you can embed Google Wave (and some other services like etherpad and mindmeister) into Blackboard. There is a live demo of this if you have a Wave preview account.  MORE >>

I am just about to dive into Google Wave (just could not resist the association here). Just like the view in demand services that are appearing for TV and Radio, we will have the Wave playback facility, wow. If you are yet to get your head around Google Wave, and I anticipate that being a learning curve in itself, there are some really good video’s out there that I have been taking the time to look at. For sure there is going to be a lot of new stuff here, not to mention the terminology like waves, wavelets, blips etc. MORE >>