For those of us new to gmail there are a few things to learn. While I try not to print emails and be paperless many of us often need to. Here is a video pointing out howto without getting all the stuff on the side.
Google have many of us waiting to find out what wave is and what it might mean for us. Having had a bit of a read around the place and not having an invite myself I became interested. Rather than add yet another review the connections I looked at showed something new and powerful The you tube example is a realtime dialogue with translation. Below this in the iframe is Daniel Tenners take on what Google wave is and isn't for the full page is found here. Personally I think this is going to be big for collaboration and that connectivity is going to be the big delivery point for personal learning in online connected real time environment like google docs etherpad and google wave.
Some Ideas for Google apps integration and use of Google docs. These simple tools are so connected and so online that they are changing the way we work play and collaborate (or me any way ;—) ). You are able to edit and add to the slides below. There is a lot more to add to the story so please have a go and I will be able to reflect on how this can grow from a simple start. Connectivity is King, Queen, Matai and Keli’i
We are starting to use google docs for our students
Why for those who are not sure?
Once we get over the wow look at this, look at that; we need to focus on how to improve learning.
Nick Rate has a good idea for writing the pic below links to his full post with examples.
Colours could also be used to identify (multiple concurrent authors is powerful learning just ask Vygotsky)
This Google presentation has some other good ideas
I am working with some teachers on this tomorrow and it needs to be about teaching and learning
the good thing with google docs is I know it can be just that.
