UNIVERSITI PENDIDIKAN SULTAN IDRIS
35900 TANJONG MALIM
PERAK DARUL RIDZUAN
MEDIA TECHNOLOGY
BKS3183
SEMESTER 1 2019/2020
GROUP ASSIGNMENT
TITLE: ONLINE COLLABORATIVE TOOL
NO. NAME MATRIC NO.
1. LOW CHOON YU D20171076674
2. NUR AIN AMEERA BINTI NIZAM D20171076677
3. NOR HAFIZA BINTI SELAMAT D20171076686
4. SITI NOR RASYIQAH BINTI MOHD RAZIFF D20171076687
5. JOEKRYNO ANAK JONI D20171076689
LECTURER’S NAME : DR. NUR NADIA BINTI ABD MUBIN
SUBMISSION DATE : 07/11/2019
GROUP : B
Online Collaborative Tool: Padlet
Online collaborative tool is another platform made in this modern era for enabling people,
coming from different sides of the world, to collaborate with one another. It is just like social
media websites which connect people with just one click, but what makes it different is that
the software used along this type of tools to make people share their ideas within one
platform possible. Be it providing feedbacks and input critical information about a project
status, work item or task, everything can be done through online collaborative tools. This
kind of platforms helps in business which has teams of people working together to perform
one assignment. Also, it shows huge contributions in classroom settings where teachers can
share files or teaching materials where their students can refer on during off-class period of
time. There are many online collaborative tools that we can find these days when we google
it. One of them is named Padlet. This application enables a team to more easily share mutual
goals, see the progress or updates of work and understand a project. The application Padlet
provides everything that can help a team in making their work as effective as possible and
with a lot more of other benefits.
Image 1 Padlet logo
Padlet is an online application helping in creating online bulletin boards that we can
use to display information for any topics we want to. It is easy to sign up for an account on
this collaborative tool and build a new board. We can add images, links, videos, and many
more kinds of file we want to share. We can then return to the board we have created and add
more information there. Padlet is not only for desktop, but it can be accessed through mobile
phones too. We can just download the application through App Store or Google PlayStore
and view the board we want to.
Image 2 Padlet homepage in desktop version
Image 3 Padlet homepage in mobile version
Padlet has made our group discussion become easier to be done. By uploading our files in the
padlet drive, which is the cloud drive for this application, we can access the files through our
desktops or smartphones. We also get notifications when someone from our group posts
anything on the padlet or comment on the posts made. We can be updated with anything from
our group members with the help of Padlet by this way.
The biggest advantage of Padlet is that it can accommodate different file types in the
same time. Everyone’s idea or files can put together in the same place. Different files are also
opened by different programs. All the information is placed in the cloud, can be accessed
instantly, furthermore, the privacy settings can set on different permissions for different
objects, make the content more secure, if you need a cloud site to manage different files,
Padlet will be a good choice.
Second benefit, we can open a discussion in Padlet, you can create and reply to
comments to get feedback and make files more collaborative, it can be done by commenting
directly on the files. It contributes a lot convenience to group discussion, easier to gather
every group member for group discussion in anywhere anytime. This does save to time to
travel to certain places for discussion.
Image 4 One Padlet opened in desktop version
In Image 4, there are files of PowerPoint slides of the previous presentations did by our group
in the class. The padlet’s name is BKS3183 Media Technology because it is the name of this
subject so it is easy for us to look up for the padlet related to our topics.
Computer teaching is not just a form of teaching that conveys information through
computer technology in the class, it also bringing benefit to students to study online through
computers at home. In my opinion, one of the most important benefits of this information
learning is strong interactivity. Students can exchange and share ideas through online
learning websites and even social networking sites. For example, Padlet can allow lecturers
or teachers to upload some textbooks or learning material through Padlet. Since Padlet
bringing convenience and this increases the realism of thinking and opinion exchange.
Therefore, students can communicate through words and teachers can even participate and be
trend of online discussion.
The benefits given through Padlet is not limited by time and space. In traditional
teaching, teachers can only teach in the face of face-to-face with students in the class. In
addition, the textbooks taught by the teachers have not been recorded, and students can only
rely on memory to recall what the teacher has taught. Through informational teaching,
teachers can upload instructional videos or learning material. In the era when everyone has a
smart phone in their hands, students can easily download the teaching videos uploaded by
teachers, and when and where to learn, even online, to communicate with other students. We
can access our files everywhere when devices and internet is available. Padlet can store our
files in our account and server and we can access in anytime and anywhere. It does bring
convenience to those students who are unable to attend class.
Padlet is an online bulletin boards that allow us to collaborate, reflect, and share
pictures and links in a very secure way. It serves as an ideal mind-mapping tool designed
specifically for students, teachers and business purposes in a fun and creative way. It provides
fast collaboration for users to streamline the creation of online bulletin boards that allow you
to collect and display data on different topics. This collaboration tool provides a unique
feature where it acts as a simple, intuitive online board for collecting and displaying data on a
private and secure platform.
In addition, Padlet is an intuitive solution that lets you post interesting questions and
content such as videos, images, text, and documents on your page. Padlet is one of the
expedient collaborative tools that allows a group discussion went smooth in term of
documents and data sharing among the members.
In creating a board on Padlet, we can set our wall to be open to public or viewed by
certain people. The user-friendly interface also features where it has access controls and user
management tools so you can simply add or remove your followers and confine their access
to certain types of data on your page. If your employee leaves, or if your students have
graduated, you also own a control button where you can invalidate their access without losing
their data. In the meantime, when a member joins your team, you can give them quick access
to certain data on the system.
Image 5 Privacy settings of Padlet
It gives you more privacy and security, which makes Padlet a valuable platform. Your
writing content will be protected from view by anyone when set to default. It is very
convenient as a page to handle a group discussion without personal issue. Padlet also allow
you to share your creative ideas and content without displaying your privacy such as your
email address, password, or even your personal creative content. This application also allow
users to share topics on social media without compromising the convenience of delivering
content to your friends. As illustrated in Picture 2, this platform contain a setting page option
where user are able to control who can view, write on, or moderate your padlets. The choices
is on you.
This collaboration tool owns essential features that are useful for those concerned and
require extra security for their documents. Padlet are using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to
transfer data between server and user. It is important for the type of school to restrict access
to its campus walls, as the server supports daily user pages. It has security features that are
similar with the bank's security system.
Image 6 Premium plans of Padlet
Similar to other applications, Padlet too has premium plans offered with a lot more
other features which are more advanced. As can be seen in Image 6, users can have unlimited
padlets at one time without having to worry about the balance of memory space left. Other
than that, users with premium plans can also customise the domain names to the padlets
made. This is easier to be remembered and searched by other users when they are viewing
our padlets. Plus, with unlimited memory space given, users can upload files with huge
megabytes for better experience in using this application as it can store bigger files than the
free, basic plan. In premium plans, we can also have folders for our padlets so it is easy for us
to arrange our work and save more time in managing our work. Despite that, Padlets Pro also
offers more wallpapers and themes so we can be more creative in doing our work here in this
application.
Living in today’s world make us have the need to connect and networking with people
around the globe. As an international online sharing platform, Padlet is also universal and
inclusive. This feature helps a lot for as many as 29 countries, which involves 29 languages
and the good news is they will add more countries alongside the said languages. One of the
benefits when they are available in many countries is that it will make things easier to share
and collaborate on Padlet across the globe, without having the difficulty to find a new
alternative.
Here, in Padlet, the users can choose their preference language, according to their
fluency. As we all acknowledge, Finland ranked in the first place for the best education
system in the world. So, they could share their recipe to the success via Padlet as one of their
collaboration tools. Padlet will make things easier because they could simply join the
discussion and ask any doubt in them across the globe.
Image 7 Languages available in Padlet
Boredom sparks creativity, but not everyone is brave enough to express their
creativity in front of others. This too, can relate with online collaborative tool. Rather than
having a normal and bored online collaborative tool, Padlet also offers a beautiful and fun
collaboration platform for the users. We are often seeing a collaboration tool which the
colours are dull, and don’t look cheerful enough. It tends to make the users feel bored and
stop using the collaborative tool. But with Padlet, it let us to create our own content, not only
using our knowledge bluntly, it combines our creativity to make it cheerful enough. One
won’t have to be a designer to be creative, obviously.
With Padlet, they have beautiful attachment previews which has replaced the normal
boring links to show off the content of the Padlet created. Padlet gives the users a range of
wallpaper designs from cute animations to some professional work, chalkboard, or cork.
They also let the user’s imagination runs wild which they can also choose their theme which
suits their type of writing sensibility. Last but not least, Padlet let the users to pick their own
typography which would attract a lot of people to join the discussion. Nevertheless, using
Padlet as our collaboration tool would be fun, both for the users and the readers.
Image 8 Themes on Padlet
To be creative nowadays is not a problem or so called gifted. Padlet is an extremely
easy tool that allows learners to collaborate online and share images, links, videos,
documents, or voice recordings. The best thing about Padlet is it is free. Padlet is a great tool
to use for collaborative group projects, as it eliminates the need to schedule time in advance
for the group members to meet face-to-face. Students are able to work freely on their group
assignments at their own convenience while still observing every change or contribution
made by group members as soon as they are made without scheduling conflicts and the
constraints produced from limiting project work to specified times.
Image 9 Padlet overview
If you are the one who always missing the important information from your teacher or
lecturer, Padlet is one tool that can put you on track. Padlet is a great tool for tracking class
updates. By using it in the classroom, you can track current and upcoming class assignment’s
topics and their due dates. In addition, you can design and place greeting cards with personal
messages for your class fellows & teachers. You will also get the opportunity to write and
learn new vocab by writing new words daily on its wall. So, it could be said now that this
technological tool would not only keep you update, but would also boost up your academic
performance.
Class participation plays a great role in the academic performance of the student. It’s
vital for students to participate in their classroom in order to enhance their knowledge. From
a recent study, it is proved that by using Padlet students can participate in class activities
more effectively. This is because students can ask questions and discuss complex class topics
with their teacher and other class fellows by placing them on Padlet wall. If a teacher has
their students split into groups to find information, Padlet is a great resource to have them
share their groups' ideas. With Padlet, students will be able to see the other groups' notes, so
they will be able to copy them down without missing any information. Furthermore, you can
also help other students by sharing your knowledge on critical areas of the topic.
A small concern with a tool like Padlet is that a teacher has no control of what
students will type or share with their groupmates. A teacher can tell them to be appropriate
and use the tool in an ethical way, but some may go against this rule. Also, it can add as a
distraction to learning with students taking up too much time making sure what they type is
correct. Sometimes, this type of software also will make students to choose making work at
home rather than a group discussion. They sometimes will limit their social interaction just
because they think that Padlet will help them to work without going outside or have live
interaction.
To sum up, Padlet is free, simple to set up and easy to use. It doesn’t provide learning
material or feedback on the content created by learners, but it does allow students to share
knowledge, ideas and work that they’ve created in class or outside class. For this reason, it’s
one of my favourite edtech tools to date.
In conclusion, it is advisable for us to use online collaborative tools in order to
manage change, communicate and save time while remaining effective in teamwork or
discussion. This method can transform the way we perform for a better outcome or product of
our work. By interacting with the whole team members in doing a project or task, we can
enhance the communication which is the lifeblood of any team, within the progress which
surely brings a promising aftermath. Although it is not the traditional, physical way of
communication, but we can still be sure of the information being spread on the platform and
ask away of what we may not understand of that particular topic being discussed in the time
being. Other than that, we can save so much time while using online collaborative tools and
take advantage of that by performing in doing work to the optimum level of ourselves. By
this, we can have ample time to experiment, to have a try-and-error moments, just to be sure
of what we are working on so that there would not be any last-minute urgent situations. Lots
of benefits await when we sign up for online collaborative tools such as Padlet. Hence, we
recommend this application to be used by everyone as it has helped us in our group work for
this subject.
Lastly, as we are stepping in to this latest technology century, Padlet just a basic
platform to students, we need to improve ourselves by adopting to more technology and
enjoy the benefits given to us.