Comments on: Google Wave

By: cmduke

cmduke — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:24:27 +0000

I’m glad others have the same reaction as @sherrymn and I did as we watched and discussed the video last week (blogged here: http://edtechatouille.blogspot.com/2009/05/google-wave-education-first-impressions.html). I also think it’s “paradigm bending” – at the very least, the extent to which Wave streamlines the composition process is numbing: the act of creating and contributing online appears much easier than current methods and transcends language barriers.

Matt Crosslin and I have been discussing – at his blog and mine – how Wave fits in within the context of LMS’ – would enjoy your comments/thoughts.. http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=414

Looking through comments. The federated features of Wave are impressive. As I understood it… Google Wave has been designed to be an open protocol; anyone can build an organizational, federated Google Wave server (like an email server) – even their own user interface. Importantly – from an IT, organizational security/privacy perspective – the protocol supports inter-system communication while maintaining organizational privacy; only the servers involved in each instance of communication maintain a record of the communication; this is granular down within Waves. For example, if a Wave includes four people working across three organizations and two participants that work for Organization B exchange a private message within that Wave, the private message is not shared to all three server within the Wave; it never leaves Organiation B’s Wave server.

I’ll be blogging more about specific educational uses.
But, I definitely look forward to when this post could be an embedded Wave with all of our comments being inserted within and throughout the conversation. And, if you happen to have your Wave interface open at this exact moment – you’d see me commenting… character by character. It will be very cool.

-cmd

By: Riding the Google Wave « 4R x T

Riding the Google Wave « 4R x T — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:44:55 +0000

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By: Bob Cole

Bob Cole — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:16:51 +0000

I was able to sporadically watch the demo today with some colleagues and I kept saying to myself that this could be a game changer. You’re right about the feeling (and reality) of being at a transitional space with regards to LMS. We’ve been running an instance of Moodle the past two years with decent to good adoption as the campus unplugs itself from the old First Class e-mail client. Seeing the Wave demo kind of blew my mind when I think about where the very late Moodle adopters are even at. Here in Monterey we are in a deep transition with all of our systems and thinking as we move ahead to integrate with Middlebury college. Thinking in Wave-like fashion will be a great experiment for us all.

By: The Googleverse re-emerges? | Virtual Learning Worlds

The Googleverse re-emerges? | Virtual Learning Worlds — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:24:29 +0000

[...] environment for browser-based MMO’s. I don’t know much about Wave yet, aside from Cole posting about it and showing a lot of excitement about its potential. Time to watch the Wave [...]

By: Christopher P. Long

Christopher P. Long — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:26:26 +0000

Thanks, Cole, for this post and for the ensuing discussion. I look forward to spending a some of my TLT fellowship time looking into the Google Wave demo and trying to think about how it could help my research and teaching in the future. What I have heard thus far, which is too little, excites me too.

Perhaps I am not understanding this fully, but I envision a kind of central app from which I can monitor, contribute to, participate in, etc. all the facets of my digital life: my email, twitter, blogging, feeds, etc. I will also be able to co-edit things with colleagues, work on student writing, etc. This is tantalizing and potentially revolutionary, it seems to me.

I hope Brad is right about PSU being able to host its own Wave server, although some will still have the big brother fears with PSU. I imagine that it will be important for me to be able to migrate information easily from one server to another if necessary. I want to “own” the wave content I produce in the sense that I can take it with me or have access to it anywhere.

If you decide to ride the Wave sooner rather than later, I would love to participate in the process. It seems to me to fit very well into my TLT faculty fellowship project. In fact, it might be just the notion of a digital agora I was trying (badly) to articulate on the wiki.

By: Cole Camplese

Cole Camplese — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:19:55 +0000

@ Brad K Now that is even more interesting than I suspected. I thought there was a push through the google system -- not that that bothers me at the moment. This is making me question quite a bit of stuff, and I am sure you know what I mean by that.

By: Brad K

Brad K — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:13:18 +0000

@ Cole Camplese If I understand this correctly (and I may not), PSU would be its own wave provider, and you and I could collaborate via a wave using brandx wave client and google would have nothing to do with providing that service. It works the same way email does now.

By: Cole Camplese

Cole Camplese — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:27:49 +0000

@ Brad K So i hadn't even thought of that. In essence, the Wave client that google hosts/runs/whatever could be using our own space to move wave data back and forth? I wonder how that would work in practice? That could overcome quite a bit of the problems with how we view other hosted services. I am wondering if we shouldn't be jumping into this pool sooner rather than later?

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:45:55 +0000

@ Brad K Wow - that is extremely cool. Thanks for sharing.