DISCORD REVIEW APPLICATION FOR ELT

 Name:    Regita Rahma

NIM    :    20201111014

NO	Guidelines for Application Review
1.	Application	Discord
2.	Application Category	Social Media
3.	Relevance	2/4 This app’s purpose has a limited connection to student learning. Because the purpose of discord is for gamers communication. But in this app’s have so many feature that can be useful for student learning.
4.	Feedback	3/4 Student is provided feedback. Because discord is a social media and not specifically used for learning so, the feedback is only from the teacher that can be given personally or in the grup-chat. In discord we call it server.
5.	Ease of Use	3/4 Student needs teacher to showing how to operate the app. Discord have so many feature that are not existed in other social media. For example we have room-voice for listening music, streaming and video call. So, teacher have to teach how to operate discord.
6.	Engagement	3/4 student uses the app as directed to the teacher. Because this application is only for communication, so student uses this app while the teacher instructing them.
7.	Sharing	4/4 Students performance records and products are saved and easily shared. We can embed various links, we can shared easily and when we want to look again the products we can use hashtag (#) so all of the product will appear.
8.	Accessibility & Cost	3/4 Discord is accessible on all mobile phone and tablet platforms but not all function are available free of charge. We call it Discord Nitro, with cost IDR 83,169.00 / Month we can customize our profile with a unique tag, access animated emojis, we can enjoy bigger file uploads and more. But without that cost, we can access it for free and the low data or quota used is one of the reasons that makes this application highly recommended.
9.	How to use/apply it in ELT?	We can use it for group communication. We can share all of the materials, task and assessment in this group. We can also use the voice-room feature for meeting.
10.	What is the impact of it for ELT?	Facilitate communication between teachers and students. Because discord feature can make the teachers job easily, for example while the teachers ask question but they want someone to answer it, they can mention the name of each student with (@) so, the student will got a notification.
11.	What are the advantages of it?	Student will more active, have newest and fun learning feature with discord.
12.	What are the limitations/weaknesses of it?	Can't upload files with size more than 8mb. If you want it you can cost more with Discord Nitro.
13	What language skills or components would it be effective for?	Listening, Speaking, Pronunciation and Vocabulary I think would be effective uses Discord as a learning media.
Note: Write your review based on this guideline and post your review essay on your personal Blog *see the application evaluation rubric for point 3-8.