LESSON 9

Collaborative ICT
Development
• Team structure and dynamics for ICT Content
• Online collaborative tools and processes
At the end of this lesson, the students should be able to:

1. use an online collaborative tool to effectively monitor group

tasks;
2. understand the advantages of using online collaborative
tools; and
3. create a project that requires team member cooperation.
 WEB PORTALS
A web portal is a website that
contains information from different
sources and places them in one
location in a uniform way.
 Online Collaborative Tools

Working together does not necessarily

mean you have to be physically
together. These tools can help your
group “go the distance” and work as if
you already have your own office.
An example of a web portal is Yahoo! (www.yahoo.
com). Yahoo.com offers a web portal where news,
email, weather, etc. are found in one page.
There are plenty of online collaborative tools:

1. You can use Facebook groups to create a group page that will
allow people in your group to communicate your ideas.
2. WordPress also allows you to multiple contributors for a single
blog.
3. Google Drive and Microsoft Office Online allow multiple
people to work on different office files and even have their own
group’s cloud storage.
4. Microsoft’s Yammer offers companies to have their own social
network that allows sharing and managing content.
5. Sites like Trello offer an online to-do checklist for your entire
team.