Discord, a versatile communication platform

Description: Discord is a communication platform primarily designed for creating communities, hosting discussions, and facilitating real-time communication through text, voice, and video. Users can join existing servers or create their own and share their screens, stream content, or listen to music. It was mainly designed for gamers, but it is also employed by various other communities, including educational groups. Discord is free to use. Signing up for an account is required to access most of Discord's features and join servers. It was developed by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy.

Evaluation: Discord can be a useful tool for teachers to communicate and share information with students through a server or for teamwork among students. It is also an excellent way for bigger groups to discuss and collaborate on projects or other tasks. Moreover, there are thousands of Discord servers, many of them dedicated to language learning, that could be of help learning a language autonomously.

Cost: Free with registration + paid plans available.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium. Discord collects various types of user data, including account information (e.g., username, email), content users create (e.g., messages, files), payment information, and information from users' actions on the platform. It does so to provide services, ensure safety, enforce community guidelines, offer customer support, and improve its services. Importantly, it emphasises not selling personal information to third parties, although it might share anonymised or aggregated data. Discord uses encryption to protect user data both in transit and at rest, which is a standard security measure. It also mentions access controls and two-factor authentication for added security. Discord provides users with various controls to manage their privacy, such as limiting and modifying data collection and deleting or disabling their accounts. Discord mentions compliance with various data protection frameworks, such as the GDPR. See more here.

Type Of Interaction: Group/pair work - classmates, Group/pair work - outsiders, Whole class,

Skills: Speaking,

Content: Website/other users supply, You supply,

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