Burghardt, M., & Hacker, M. (2003). THE ABC’S OF CREATING INFORMED DESIGN ACTIVITIES.Http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/Academics/Colleges/SOEAHS/ctl/ctl_informeddesign_001.pdf. Retrieved October 07, 2010, from http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/Academics/Colleges/SOEAHS/ctl/ctl_informeddesign_001.pdf
Exemplary Bedroom Design Unit - Center for Technological Literacy - Hofstra University. (n.d.). Retrieved October 07, 2010, from http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Colleges/SOEAHS/CTL/ITEA/index.html#Bedroom%20Design%20Curriculum
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.
Discovering Web 2.0 tools assignments led me to a place that I was looking for the past three weeks. Sent on this mission I was to find a tool that I could use in my professional environment. While I was searching I remembered a discussion with one of my colleagues on creating digital music for student PSA's. The tool is called Soundation, a web-based loop sequencer with real-time effects and virtual instruments. My first part of the journey was to learn Soundation. To get a better understanding of the program I reviewed the how to... section of the Soundation website. Once I understood the layout of the program and what a Sound set is and what an Audio locker was I launched Soundation Studio. Evaluating this software I quickly recognize many of the features resemble other audio editing and looping software in the current market. The dashboard is not too cluttered and the overall workspace is a close mirror image to the name brand competitors. Where the sequencer application stands out the most is its benefit of being a web application. Eliminating the install process of software, USB dongles for authorization, and immediately using Soundation studio directly by launching a webpage on your Internet browser. This one key component allows teachers and students to use the software on cross platform operating systems at school and at home. This product is exactly what my colleague and I were looking for and I'm glad to be able to share with all my blog followers.
Saving the best for last is the final product that was produced. Which can be shared in many different ways. You can save it to the local machine as a wave file, post it to your Facebook or embed it into your blog.
Hacker, M., & Burghardt, D. (2008). Hofstra bedroomdesign packet. Hofstra bedroomdesign packet. Retrieved October 1, 2010, from http://www.hofstra.edu/pdf/Academics/Colleges/SOEAHS/ctl/ctl_informeddesign_004.pdf
