Prezi about Discord

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by Fabiola Chavez1 view·Updated Jun 29, 2021
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  1. Hi everybody, this is fabulous Chavez and I will be
  2. presenting this Prezi on Discord before we get started with
  3. Discord. I just want to explain a little bit about
  4. the library sending the Discord could potentially work for this
  5. would be an academic library.
  6. So university library that specializes in helping undergraduate graduate faculty
  7. and staff with research, just any general circulation and service
  8. questions. It's a little bit about Discord.
  9. Discord is an instant messaging platform that is designed for
  10. users to create communities or they can communicate with each
  11. other. Types of communication include voice calls, video calls, text
  12. messages, media, file sharing, private group messaging and individual messaging.
  13. Also within Prezi you can create channels.
  14. These communication channels are 100% customizable, so you can make
  15. them about anything.
  16. There's a 500 channel limit per server and you can
  17. make text or voice channels.
  18. So some pros about Discord that I really enjoyed.
  19. The interface is very user friendly and self explanatory.
  20. Once you download Discord, it's pretty easy to use once
  21. you also have a link for which survey you'd like
  22. to use, your able to join and chat amongst other
  23. users in the same server.
  24. The server is customizable.
  25. So you can create the server for whatever fits your
  26. needs and then create the sub channels within those servers.
  27. Some channels can be made private while others need permission
  28. to post.
  29. Um and you you can just share the link with
  30. anybody who wants it.
  31. This court is also 100% free and the mobile app
  32. is also free and available for Android and Apple users
  33. outside of your general servers that you create.
  34. There are also public servers that have gaming, music, education,
  35. science and tech within the scope of those that you
  36. can just go browsing for anything that interests you.
  37. So, some cons about Discord is that there's minimal customizable
  38. customization settings in the general interface, there's only like the
  39. dark sitting in the light setting, so this cord looks
  40. the same for everybody.
  41. Um There's an eight megabyte file sharing limit when you
  42. send messages through.
  43. Um you have to monitor your users yourself as a
  44. server owner, so there are no mods available.
  45. Um you just have to create those yourself And then
  46. depending on server needs, the 500 channel limit, maybe limiting
  47. for some.
  48. Mhm. So some some surprises that I found within discord
  49. um is that you're able to build this huge community
  50. depending on your needs.
  51. Um I did think the 500 channels are pretty cool,
  52. I think that's enough depending on your needs.
  53. Um And the private channels are also really nice.
  54. Some improvements I might give.
  55. Discord is just added security.
  56. Um you know, anybody can hack into anything these days,
  57. so if Discord gave us that extra security that they're
  58. able to, you know, withhold any ransomware attacks, that'd be
  59. nice collaboration with education would be good that way.
  60. Academic universities, high schools, middle schools can start using it
  61. since it's such a huge platform for communication.
  62. Um and then some more visual customization.
  63. So Discord in an academic library, I would use Discord
  64. for specific user group channels.
  65. You know, I would create a specific channel for the
  66. students, um either undergraduates or graduates specific channel for staff
  67. faculty. I would also create a general library questions channel
  68. so that anybody could ask anything about services or circulation.
  69. Um And Discord could also be used to promote events,
  70. services and the collection.
  71. You know, if anybody has questions, you can say, hey
  72. come on down tonight.
  73. There's a book club at eight p.m. So on and
  74. so forth.
  75. Also some best practices for discord and academic library just
  76. to keep it casual and easy to use.
  77. Um, you don't want to overwhelm any of your users,
  78. especially undergraduates who are already stressed, Team up with the
  79. university 18 for again, bringing potential malware scares and then
  80. make sure there are no outside general audience or anybody
  81. you don't want on the servers and then just monitoring
  82. channels for anything unwanted that doesn't fit within the library's
  83. mission.