Google Wave, the maddeningly confusing yet highly innovative real-time collaboration tool, will become a member of Google’s online office suite Google Apps later this year. The service, still in closed beta, is meant to be a modern-day revamp of email – what email would be if it was invented in 2009 instead of the 1960’s. [...]
When students show up for Kevin Gaugler’s Spanish in technology class at Marist College, they don’t have to lug around a textbook.
The entire class is done electronically.
For Gaugler, who teaches the course, not using printed textbooks made sense.
“The whole course is task-based learning,” he said. “There just isn’t a textbook I could choose.”
While college students [...]
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