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Google Wave in higher education?

Dec 3, 2009

in Education, Technology

collaboration, collaborative authoring environment, collaborative editing, Gina Trapani, Google, google wave, higher education, internet access, leo laporte, online sources, scholarly document editor, search strategies, wave

I just got my invite for Google Wave and I feel like a little kid with a new toy, only I don’t know what the toy is, or how it works, or what (if anything) I’m supposed to do with it. Apparently I’m not alone (keep hitting Refresh to get different comparisons). I’m not going…
TWiT and Twitter conversations (no relation)

Jun 30, 2009

in Social media, Technology

communications platform, education, leo laporte, mozilla open education, MozOpenEdCourse, pdf, pedagogy, personal democracy forum, this week in tech, time magazine, tweetdeck, twit, twitter

I listen to a podcast called This Week in Tech (TWiT), hosted by Leo Laporte and few other tech writers and hosts of their own shows (if you don’t listen to TWiT and you’re interested in tech, I’d definitely recommend it). There are 2 things I specifically want to mention about 2 of the recent…