What is this Google Wave thing anyway? Google wave is a real-time collaborative editing web application. So what is a Wave? Internet communication with the power to share and modify collaborative documents much like a wikis. The key features of Google wave are the merge of email, I.M., wikis, Social Networking, all in real –time. Okay so it does everything but then the old saying goes a jack-of-all-trades a master of none. This is the great thing about the wave is made up of gadgets that are masters in document editing. Each one of these gadgets like video embedding is designed by third-party developers who utilize the Google open source code to enhance the wave. Being the end-user and having control of how the final product interacts with the participants that I have invited into a wave is one of its key features. The simultaneous interaction and collaboration with an unlimited number of participants is what has everyone interested in this technology.
Using Google wave and maneuvering through it has been simplified with a playback options as every keystroke to the wave is being recorded. You can rewind and see what other participants have done while you were away. This can allow both participants to review and make revisions very quickly. The interface is broken up into four main panels one for basic information inbox folders/ archives, then a contacts panel, a third panel listing all un-archived waves that you've been invited to participate in, and the wave panel where the work gets done in real-time. I currently have been using Google wave for the past six months but only an active user for the past three. Professionally it has been a very useful tool and I have been able to complete a technology integration group study with 10 participants last spring. More recently I've used it as I enrolled in Full Sail University education media design and technology EMDT Master of Science Graduate program. 100% online program this tool has allowed me to stay connected to my teammates, communicate thoughts and ideas, and collaborate on team projects. With its unlimited gadgets enhancing the actual wave I've been able to post all of my FSO assignments and receive feedback instantly. The results have been positive and I would rate the program a 4/5 stars. Why not five stars? The creators of Google Wave have decided to drop the project and put it in a box for the world. So the rise and fall of great things do hold some truth in history. Look to today’s forward thinkers as the “wave” meets augmented reality or the AR Wave. Society creates the pace of technology, now that the technology is known it will rise once again were society places it.
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