If the standing-room only attendance at Tuesday’s Create World session on Google Wave is anything to go by, there are people out there by the truckload champing at the bit to get their hands on Google Wave. Still in beta form, and still available by invitation only (you can ask to be invited, but it might take a while to get a response), the hype about Wave is that it represents the next quantum leap forward in respect of online collaboration and information management. See for example the developer preview from Google:
But does it live up to the hype? And how difficult is it to use? And will it be sufficiently sexy and robust to drag our technophobic colleagues away from their insistence that collaboration is best handled by email, with all its detritus of archive boxes, and attachment folders full of multiple versions of misnamed, unordered files?
These are questions that Andrew Dekker, Stephen Viller and Aaron Tan (University of Queensland) have been investigating. In that process they have developed a particular Mac implementation of the system which they call CocoaWave, and which you can download and play with yourself (if you’re game!) …. Andrew & Stephen talk about it in this interview with Ian Green.
UPDATE: Hold on sending any more … you couldn’t if you wanted to … yet! The AUC folks have lashed out on a Flickr Pro membership which means unlimited uploads SOON. We’ll let you know details when we have them.
We’ve created a Flickr photo stream AUC Create World 09 for your images of the conference. To get your happy snaps into the stream please select your brilliant images and send them through to the blog admins at create.world.09@gmail.com. We will upload your images, and they will then appear in the AUC Create World 09 page. The latest will appear in the Flickr widget in the left sidebar.
The first day of Create World presented to us a panel of image-making superstars, including renowned nature photographer Steve Parish, and Eureka prize winning science photographer Phred Petersen (RMIT).
It was billed as a Visual-Art- interfaces-with-Scientific-Research event, but I’m not quite sure that we had time to get to the pointy end, you know where we [...]
iFidelity: view the presentation (best viewed in iTunes)
The whole world, just about, is in love with the iPod. That much we know, at least in general. But how do people, as individuals, relate to their iPods? How do they feel and think about them, what kind of loyalties and affections do [...]
… but not forgotten. Create World 09 kicked off to a very good start on Monday. Personally, I feel the conference has moved up a notch. There are more in attendance, and, if today was anything to go by, the quality of presentations and engagement are already way ahead [...]
This blogsite is designed to act as a hub for the various media we’ll be producing during the 3 or so days of the Conference. You’ll see the usual blogposts as they are rolled out.
Over in the sidebar is a Vodpod widget which is aggregating the [...]
Allan Carrington is a Learning Designer with the Centre of Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. Email. Professional CV
Dr Ian Green teaches and researches in areas of researcher education, elearning and linguistics at the University of Adelaide. Email.
Prof Kate Foy is a freelance creative arts consultant and practitioner, and an e-learning researcher. Formerly Assoc Prof and USQ Faculty of Arts Deputy Dean, Kate continues her University affiliation with USQ as an Honorary Professor.Email. Professional CV.
These are questions that Andrew Dekker, Stephen Viller and Aaron Tan (University of Queensland) have been investigating. In that process they have developed a particular Mac implementation of the system which they call CocoaWave, and which you can download and play with yourself (if you’re game!) …. Andrew & Stephen talk about it in this interview with Ian Green.
Allan Carrington is a Learning Designer with the Centre of Learning and Professional Development at the University of Adelaide. 
Dr Ian Green teaches and researches in areas of researcher education, elearning and linguistics at the University of Adelaide. 
Prof Kate Foy is a freelance creative arts consultant and practitioner, and an e-learning researcher. Formerly Assoc Prof and USQ Faculty of Arts Deputy Dean, Kate continues her University affiliation with USQ as an Honorary Professor.