Have you got your Google Wave invite yet?  Google Wave's Best Use Cases , Lifehacker, 14 October 2009. Google Wave will revolutionise online classroom instruction , So You Want. Google Wave: a complete guide , Mashable, 29 September 2009. Learning Waves from Google , Donald Clark, 6 June 2009. ways that Wave is going to change your business, career and life , thinkVitamin, June 2009. Want to read more, here's our Google Wave reading list. And the Google Wave site is here. MORE >>

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 >>

Home My Story Portfolio iPad Bookshelf Social Media June 12, 2009 Google Wave as a Learning Tool tags: elearning2.0 , google , social learning , waves The web is a buzz over Google Wave. The tool was created by the engineers that brought us Google maps. Wave also is dealing with team-based live document editing, realtime photo sharing, and language translations. But I immediately began to think about how Google Wave is a platform for social learning. Waves really open up that possibility. Impressive, to say the least. 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 >>