# Educational Extensions (Robots and Gadgets) for Google Wave ![google_wave_logo_final640](https://hawksey.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/google_wave_logo_final640.jpg "google_wave_logo_final640") I was creating an intermediate guide for staff exploring Google Wave and as part of it I’ve put together a list of Wave extensions which might be of use to educators. This list was taken from the [Google Samples Gallery](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/) and a [unofficial list of robots/gadgets](http://sites.google.com/site/gwaveextensions/extensions-list). If you want to try these out to add a robot to a wave add it to your wave contacts (click '+' button bottom right of the contacts panel) then add the robot address xxx@appspot.com. Robots can then be added to a wave in the same way to add human contacts. To add gadgets I recommend following [The Complete Guide to Google Wave - Wave Gadgets guide](http://completewaveguide.com/guide/Wave_Gadgets)## Robots - [watexy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=20018) - **watexy@appspot.com** - Use LaTeX mathematical language in your Waves! - [WaveAlpha](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=30003) - **wave-alpha@appspot.com** - It empowers the user with the ability to query Wolfram Alpha's Computational Knowledge Search Engine right from a "wavelet" and retrieve the results right into the "blip". - [Wikify](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=23018) - **wikifier@appspot.com** - Replaces specific marked up text with a link to Wikipedia or a description relevant to the marked text. - [Emaily](http://emaily.dlux.hu/)[ Robot](http://emaily.dlux.hu/) - **emaily-wave@appspot.com** - Robot which can email waves as they are updated - [drop.io](http://drop.io) Robot - **mikeswaverobot@appspot.com** - Creates a drop and puts the info into the wave whenever the robot is added as a participant. - [Rssybot](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=30012) - **rssybot@appspot.com** - Turn google wave into an RSS reader! Add Rssybot to a thread, then enter the URL to the RSS feed you want watch and press subscribe. When a new post appears on the feed Rssybot will put it into the wave for you! Clicking on the post will expand the feed. - [Tweety the Twitbot](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=5002) - **tweety-wave@appspot.com** - You can access your Twitter account. - [Aunt Rosie](http://andrewhitchcock.org/?post=322) - **aunt-rosie@appspot.com** - Aunt Rosie will automatically insert a language drop down into your blip when you've typed enough for her to recognize your language. Select the language you'd like to translate to and she'll reply with the translation. - Taggy - **taggy-wave@appspot.com** - Recognize #hashtags and add them as tags to the wave. - [Treeify](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=29013) - **treeify@appspot.com** - Treeify is a multi-wave robot which lets you connect waves into tree structures. With it you can build and navigate trees of waves - [Invity](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=77015) - **pw-invity@appspot.com** - save all current participants of the wave as a named group. When you create a new wave and add Invity, you are able to select a group and Invity automatically adds all members to the wave - [Graphy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=23016) - **graph-wave@appspot.com** - Collaborate on flow charts and graphs. - [Embeddy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=10004) - **embeddy@appspot.com** - Generates code to embed a wave in your webpage ## Gadgets - [Poll Gadget](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=72028) - Features the ability to add/remove options, set votes per participant, and embed the result as a chart. [Installer XML](http://wave.samuirai.de/install_poll.xml) | [Gadget XML](http://wave.samuirai.de/poll.xml) - [Taskboardy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=68026) - maintain a taskboard. It provides all its basic operations, such as Create a User Story, a task, delete them, change the statuses of the tasks and assign the tasks. [Gadget XML](http://taskboardy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/taskboard.xml) - [Nimbb Gadget](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=70016) - Add webcam video recording to any wave. [Installer XML](http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/installer.xml) | [Gadget XML](http://service.nimbb.com/GoogleWave/Nimbb.xml) - [Voicy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=64064) - Add a voice recording to any wave. [Installer XML](http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/manifest.xml) | [Gadget XML](http://wave-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/voicy/gadget.xml) - [oxyxy](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=47007) - Collaborative LaTeX authoring Gadget for Google Wave. This Gadget allows the authoring of Waves containing LaTeX markup, which is converted and displayed as MathML. [Installer XML](http://oxyxy.googlecode.com/svn/tags/oxyxy_0.1.1/installer.xml) | [Gadget XML](http://oxyxy.googlecode.com/svn/tags/oxyxy_0.1.1/oxyxy.xml) - [Brainstorming](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=34038) - A simple brainstorming tool to collaborate on an idea tree. Participants can add, edit and move nodes. [Gadget XML](http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bvlhpb8jw&feature=player\_embedded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81bvlhpb8jw&feature=player_embedded) - [HTML Gadget](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=10001) - Allows you to add any piece of HTML inside a wave (used above). [Gadget XML](http://wave-ide.appspot.com/html.xml) - [Napkin](http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/about_app?app_id=5023) - Adds the ability to do quick "back of a napkin" sketches to a wave - collaborative doodling. [Gadget XML](http://my-wave-gadgets.appspot.com/wave/NapkinGadget.xml) - <iframe> - Embed any web page (as <iframe>) into a wave. [Installer XML](http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe-ext.xml) | [Gadget XML](http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml) If I’ve forgot any you think should be included please use the comments to make suggestions ;-)