A presentation on Google Wave for my ECMP 455 online lesson.

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/44124400268@N01/1973927918 Riding the wave… A journey through Google Wave with Jordan McFarlen

2. What do they need to know?

3. HOW WHAT MY is Google Wave? to use it? can it be used in education? does one join? journey and advice…

5. When in the wave… http://www.flickr.com/photos/22216022@N03/2157533500 How to avoid drowning…

6. Basic layout and functions…

7. Newly developed wave templates…

8. Robots and Gadgets What makes Google Wave really cool…

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/25514451@N03/3973455705 Robots… Translators. Embed waves in a blog post. Twitter. Add Wikipedia links. Clean up. Have human like convo with robot. Rick-roll people and many other useful & useless robots...

10. Gadgets… Create a poll. Collaborate on a mind map. Mapping tools. Video chat. Date-Picker. Drawing. Embed websites. And more… http://www.flickr.com/photos/9192127@N06/2314898898

11. + = ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/71288712@N00/468562994

12. For teachers… PD Connect. Share. Collaborate .

14. “ Small in-class groups: Groups of 4-5 people could be assigned to make and take care of a Wave. They would then self-assign and self-assess. Any slackers in the group would be either forced out and reported to the teacher, or would bend to the social pressure and help.” Engage. Wave as online classroom. Tests, surveys etc. Process log. On-going class discussion. Students make a wave to connect with experts. http://www.flickr.com/photos/83696308@N00/224425710

15. For students… Collaborate on group projects. Create a document. Discussions or study groups. Backchannel. Many possibilities…

16. My Adventure.

17. http://www.flickr.com/photos/19631548@N00/346009802 I took the PLUNGE…

18. Alone on a deserted island with little to no waves… http://www.flickr.com/photos/8796598@N06/3444429070

19. Then I discovered public waves… with:public

20. A few things on the go…

21. How to join… Request an invite from wave.google.com Message me for an invite!

22. Make a SPLASH. IMAGINE. CREATE. CONNECT. COLLABORATE. EXPERIMENT. SHARE. http://www.flickr.com/photos/57945291@N00/3766689459

23. [email_address] @mcfarljo on Twitter http://mcfarljo.wordpress.com