Alicia Wyatt (Computer Science), Scott Fritz (Computer Services), and Chris Andrews (English) are some of the newest users of Google Wave.  After having received the coveted invites, all three of these McMurry employees are now Waving with other beta testers across the globe.

What is Google Wave?  Wave is a product that aims to bring together streams of conversation, text, video, and images either real-time or asynchronously.  It can be used for simple messaging, for an involved conversation, or even as a wiki-type collaborative document.  Everyone who is a member of the wave can edit any part of the wave, and you can review the entire process with a “playback” feature.

http://mashable.com/2009/05/28/google-wave-guide/

Fritz envisions using it as a class note-taking tool–and it could be group notetaking, with each person capturing different parts of the lecture or adding additional resources later.  Wyatt and Andrews would like to use it with students.  For example, each group might work on a separate wave, adding detail from any place at any time from any browser enabled device (think smart phone).  When the material is gathered, then the group sits down (physically or virutally) and edits it into a unit of knowledge.

Developers are already building robots, gadgets, and extensions that you can use to enhance your wave.

Currently, each person invited to use Wave can, in turn, invite 8 more.  Keep an eye on your inbox!

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