Sample Use Case: Lesson Planning for Educators
Miles, Louisa, and Noah are high school teachers who recently discovered Google Wave. All three of them are technologically oriented, and they are interested in using Google Wave as a tool for sharing and creating lessons plans with school teachers around the world. They are each skilled in different disciplines, but they think they could benefit from an interdisciplinary approach to lesson planning.
Louisa takes the lead and creates a wave to start brainstorming about ideas on how to use Google Wave for lesson planning. The three of them begin to populate the wave with their collective thoughts about how waves could be used as repositories for lesson-planning documents, as forums for teachers to ask questions and connect with each other, and as wikis for the development of new lesson plans.
After a few weeks, Louisa thinks it’s time to share the wave with the world. She proceeds to tag the wave with relevant keywords in order to make it easy for other educators to find the wave. Next she adds easypublic@appspot.com to the wave, thereby making the wave publicly accessible (the easypublic@appspot.com account is a shortcut for making waves public). With the wave now public and tagged, Miles and Noah move forward with publicizing the wave by tweeting about the wave on Twitter and asking popular education bloggers to write about the wave.
Soon teachers from around the world begin to join the wave. Some have found it by searching their inboxes ...