Synchronous means working together at the same time, such as using chat rooms and online conferences using Skype or FaceTime. Padlet is a good example of synchronous communication.
Advantage: In Padlet, people's comments to each other are relayed immediately, enabling a real-time discourse.
Learning from synchronous communication is enhanced because real-time conversations allow people to explore our task ideas and concepts.
Collaborative communications allows us to build bridges between different ideas and concepts, thus helping to complete the task and gather information more effectively and we use our time more productively.
The conversation can be saved and accessed later.
Disadvantage: If you don't take the time to set the synchronous tool's attributes to reflect who is making a comment or posting notes, it is extremely difficult to figure out who said what.
The comments can be out of sync so it is difficult to follow the line of conversation.
Not everyone will participate equally in the collaborative, synchronous communication task or others may be left out.
Asynchronous communication is the relay of information with a time lag. For example, discussion forums and email - anyone can pick up an email or comment at any time; so it isn't in "real time". There would be a delay to when you would get a response.
Advantage: It is very helpful to communicate in this way, because we have plenty of time to formulate thoughts.
It's a good "paper" trail and tracking device. It is easy to capture people's feedback.
By communicating via email we are able to respond in detail to a question or the task topic that we might have answered incompletely in a real-time conversation.
Email allowed us to research our topics first before we share and have synchronous collaborative communication with the rest of our team on Padlet.
Disadvantage to asynchronous communication is time
lost waiting for a response.
This can seriously impact completing a task because not everyone on the team will complete at the same time.
This can seriously impact completing a task because not everyone on the team will complete at the same time.
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