DevLearn 2009: Catch the WAVE: Google WAVE and e-Learning Applications

This afternoon I sat through Adam Mash's (? I think that's his name) session on Google Wave. Being a Google Wave tester, nothing that he said was new for me except he highlighted a few things worth reiterating.

So what should you know about Google Wave

There are some really interesting uses for Google Wave:

• Collaborative creation of documents, reports, observations, requests
• Group/ Afilliation rosters;
• Agenda, meeting minutes, to-do list combos;
• Collaborative proposal Writing and approval;
• Collective visioning and brainstorming;
• Getting to know you style stuff
• Fun, special interest conversations

A few things that people may not know about Wave

• The complete wave guide -- all there is to know about Wave
• You can create and access public waves. You can explictly choose to follow public waves.
• Wave is an open protocol, so it is possible to create custom clients to interact with Wave.
• Just like every other Google Application, Wave is extensible and there are already quite a few extensions in play for Google Wave, that will make it a fully featured collaboration platform whenever it is out.
• It is not possible to remove people from a wave, yet.
• Support for mailing lists and groups isn't great yet. Actually its almost non-existent.
• There's a twitter feed for google wave at #googlewave