06.+M-+Google+Wave

[|Google Wave]

Brian Van Dyck is presenting; he's an extremely engaging presenter. Saw him rescue Eric Marcos' session on MathTrainTV last year at ILC in San Jose. Evidently, due to a budget freeze, Eric's school district wouldn't allow him to attend and Brian stepped in to host and connected Eric via Skype, I believe. Just great. You can see my notes on the preso [|here](scroll down a bit).

"Dudes, I am totally stoked to shred on Google Wave." I'll bet he said that just for the benefit of Alan November from Boston!

ADOSS- attention deficit ooh something shiny!

email is 40 years old! These things need to be updated. Wikis, blogs, email needs to be put all in one place and that place is Google Wave.

We will be introduced to robots and gadgets.

There are layers in GW.First layer is between 2 individuals with some resources added. The second layer could have a blip. A blip is a reply or response to a general theme or to an individual's specific comment. 3rd level is a very specific reply that you can edit. Brian is collecting our email addresses and we will all get Google Invites to the Wave. We will get the invites and then he asks us to share the invites that we have access to...use them to share with the students, not our colleagues. If the colleagues want an invite, they have to get one from a student!

Gadgets add functionality to our wave. There is a big video on Google Wave. Unlike Google Docs, on the Wave I can watch you type and join you to correct your spelling as you type.

Taking classroom notes (Cornell notes, OMgoodness.....this drives me nuts. I want them) Open up a wave each day and have a student create the notes for the class each day. It works seamlessly wit the class each day. They update...as you change the doc, it updates itself within the Wave. Whatever you see in the wave is the most current version.

Surveys...when you ask kids if they understand? You can put a survey in GW. When you respond, yes, no, maybe, there is something 'check my status' you can change your status as your understanding changes.

Time to create a wave. Every response, every reply, every email is archived in GW; you'll never be dropped from a distribution list. Your space bar becomes you're ticket....ADOSS...lost my own train of thought. Oops.

Create a new wave in a working table? copy to a new wave is basically a retweet. The blue line below (blip) is a threaded discussion. GW loves chrome. you can drag and drop. firefox is ok. safari- nah. Google is paying attention to people's comments; within 3 hours, they had updated the program so that people could see who was online (green dots next to their names).

If you select the empty line, it will turn the translator off. Aunt Rosie is the translator (Rosetta Stone).

so long as I am in edit this message mode, I can add things.