"Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help. Here you'll learn how to use Google Wave to get things done with your group."
The things I particularly like here are real-time, how Google Wave makes collaborate note-taking much more effective for learners and how collaborators/students can be tracked (play-back ability).
Real-time collaboration in Google Wave, play-back ability (teacher/instructor can see who did what) and students have actually said that their collaboratge note-taking was "more complete".
If you haven’t heard about Google Wave, prepare to be blown away. I made the mistake of starting this movie at 10:30 last night thinking I’d probably just watch a few minutes and drift off to sleep.
Google Wave is 100% open-source, so rest assured that developers are ravenously developing extensions, plug-ins, modules, and anything else necessary to make it work on all the platforms we use today.
Departmental communications
Intercampus
Plan parent conferences with multiple teachers and multiple schedules
Share links to web resources
Campus improvement planning
Schoolwide calendar/scheduling
Faculty meeting follow-up
Teacher appraisal sign-ups
To-do lists
Keep information current between work, cell, and home
School newspaper/newsletter article development
Local newspaper publicity article development
Twitter-like communication between faculty without the Twitter-like time drain
Share lesson plans with substitutes/administrators/department chairs/other teachers