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.