Google Wave: Blackboard and Basecamp Killer
We have been happily and intensively using Google Wave over the past week and we are impressed with its promise and engineering.
Google Wave is a new way to collaborate online. You can have conversations in real time and you can share resources, files and information in multiple waves with many different groups and people.
We have used Blackboard and Basecamp in the past to teach online and we find that -- unlike the awful and disappointing Google Sites -- Google Wave is actually a fit solution and replacement for both Basecamp and Blackboard at zero cost.
Google Wave's impending integration with Google Apps will make it the "go-to" collaboration arena for business users and the quickly indispensable collective mindshare application for students and educators everywhere.
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I like Google Wave a lot. It is email and sharing files in real time or not in real time. Really handy.
That's a good point. I wish Google Wave had an "invisible" button because sometimes you're setting up new material online and students can see you're there and they ask for attention and then nothing gets done. I also think there needs to be a way to lock content. You don't want students to have the ability to change a message from an instructor as they can do now.
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