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Google Wave – Social Learning – Business – eLearning Hot List

Tony Karrer

The Art of Computer Game Design , June 17, 2009 The Top 5 Platforms for Creating Educational Video Games « Educational Games Research , June 17, 2009 Why Do People Play Games? - Browse eLearning Content

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Wipeout!: Google Stops Development of Wave Messaging Platform by Bill Brandon

LearningGuild

Little more than a year after release as a “preview,” Google Wave has gone flat. Google announced. this afternoon that it is shutting down development of the communication tool as a standalone.

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The current top 5 highest-rated social learning solutions on CollectMyThoughts

InsiderHub

In the world of online learning, some organizations are choosing to incorporate a “social” aspect to their platforms and programs, also sometimes described as “collaborative” learning. Google has several handy tools that allow people to collaborate. Google Docs – makes it easy to access documents in a variety of formats.

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eLearning Learning - Best of June 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Google Wave as a Learning Tool - Learning and Technology , June 12, 2009. Should you Care about Google Wave? Does Google Wave Mean the End of the LMS? The Top 5 Platforms for Creating Educational Video Games « Educational Games Research , June 17, 2009. Google Wave (16). June 2, 2009.

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What will change in 2010?

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Google Wave is the johnny-come-lately. Howard Greenstein helps explain Wave in this post from Mashable. Wave threads together email, instant messages, documents, and applications in a way that you can follow, and even trace the history, of their links. You might follow an online conversation back in time.

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How to Replace Top-down Training with Collaborative Learning (2)

Jay Cross

Google is teaching people to use more of its services in online courses. Google could have produced a slick, buttoned-down, tech-oriented training program, like they did for Google Wave, but this time around, Google chose a friendly, avuncular fellow to lead you through the ondemand session.

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So many thoughts, so little time

Jay Cross

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform - OReilly Radar , June 9, 2009. Using Elgg as as Social Learning platform , May 2, 2009. Twitter is Not a Conversational Platform - OReilly Radar , June 9, 2009. OReilly Radar , May 28, 2009.