I've written about Educause a number of times before, a website that offers its monthly 7 Things You Should Know About… series of PDFs, which break down emerging technologies into an easy-to-understand format, describing not only what the new technology does, but why it matters in education.

Their most recent 7 Things is about Google Wave, which only rolled out its first invitations a month before the 7 Things article was published. Other topics that have been covered include...

• microblogging,
• VoiceThread, and
• UStream.

The pdfs are easy to understand and could be made available to practitioners and /or learners as part of CPD, induction, etc.

Visit http://www.educause.edu/7Things to find out more.