Students and teachers can collaborate quickly and efficiently with Google Wave. When students finish reading a book, they can use this platform as a “chatroom” of sorts, in which to discuss the book. This recorded dialogue can then be used as an assessment piece. Students are very familiar with the way threads and texting work, so Google Wave provides a comfortable territory in which students can express themselves and display their knowledge.
I have already found great value in Google wave as a collaboration piece as a student. My FSO group, Team Logic, use the wave to bounce ideas off of each other and give critical advice to one another.Teachers can also use Google Wave as a tool to collaborate amongst themselves. When issues need to be resolved in a school, this application can serve as a mind map of ideas and solutions. The wave can be read by administrators and then ideas deliberated upon.
As part of the technology integration team at my school, I find Google Wave very helpful in sharing tips and expertise. Whenever one of us finds a link to share, we can post it to the Wave and everybody has instant access.
Once you try google wave with a good number of devoted users, I think it’s easy to see the usefulness of the application.
Drew, great info on Google Wave. I started using it back in MLR and it was a little overwhelming at first. As soon as I got used to it though, I was actually depending on it. I love how Google Wave implements drag and drop capability of plugins into discussions for voting and multiple choice selections. Definitely a great tool!
ReplyDeleteYou Posted:Teachers can also use Google Wave as a tool to collaborate amongst themselves. The fact is that most teachers stay in the class and do not get to see other teachers interact with students. Not knowing what they are teaching down the hall or even next door. Communication is something that we all need to work on. Google Wave is a great tool to post a picture of students projects or post an idea for a project you have for class and get some feedback. The teacher down the hall might stop in and say hey can we co-teach? The teacher next door might say I did not even know you cover this in your class. I do something like it maybe we can sit down and collaborate. In a perfect world this would happen but in todays world not so likely. So Wave with you team and collaborate by sharing ideas online with Google Wave.
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