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GOOGLE PLAY MICROSOFT TEAMS
skills that can be acquire: skills that can be acquire:
Information literacy Information literacy
Media literacy Media literacy
Technology literacy Technology literacy
Critical thinking skill
Collaboration skill
Communication skill
Social skills
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ZOOM FACETIME
skills that can be acquire: skills that can be acquire:
Information literacy Information literacy
Media literacy Media literacy
Technology literacy Technology literacy
Critical thinking skill Collaboration skill
Collaboration skill Communication skill
Communication skill Social skills
Social skills
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CANVA REFERENCES
skills that can be acquire:
Information literacy
Media literacy
Technology literacy
Creativity skill
Productivity skill
Initiative skill
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GET IT ON!
GOOGLE PLAY IS GOOGLE’S VISION FOR THE OPTIMAL STORE EXPERIENCE ON
ANDROID, CONNECTING BILLIONS OF USERS EVERY DAY TO THE GREATEST
DIGITAL EXPERIENCES BY CREATING THE BEST DISCOVERY AND
DISTRIBUTION PLATFORM.
Google Play originated from three distinct OPPORTUNITIES
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and Google eBookstore.
Reminding them to be a netiquette user
- Google places some restrictions on the types of apps that
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can be published, in particular not allowing sexually
explicit content, child endangerment, violence, bullying &
Android Market was announced by Google on August 28, harassment, hate speech, gambling, illegal activities, and
2008, and was made available to users on October 22. In requiring precautions for user-generated content.
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December 2010, content filtering was added to Android Application security, making the user aware and
Market, each app's details page started showing a cautious in clicking apps
promotional graphic at the top, and the maximum size of - a new automated antivirus system, called Google
Bouncer, to scan both new and existing apps for malware
an app was raised from 25 megabytes to 50 megabytes.
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(e. g. spyware or trojan horses).
The Google eBookstore was launched on December 6,
CHALLENGES
2010, debuting with three million ebooks, making it "the
largest ebooks collection in the world".
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Difficulties in performing tasks
In November 2011, Google announced Google Music, a -some of them were not agile nor easy to complete
section of the Play Store offering music purchases. In Lack of element cohesion
March 2012, Google increased the maximum allowed size -some icons and buttons did not follow the style of the
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of an app by allowing developers to attach two expansion operating system
Bad translations
files to an app's basic download; each expansion file with
-too much information on the screen
a maximum size of 2 gigabytes, giving app developers a
Problems with the user interface
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total of 4 gigabytes. Also in March 2012, Android Market
-pop-ups overlapping the status bar, clipped elements,
was re-branded as Google Play. The Google Play Store, sometimes the interface did not rotate, and, in other cases,
including all Android apps, came to Chrome OS in the interface changed considerably when the device was
September 2016. rotated
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MICROSOFT
TEAMSMORE WAYS TO
BE A TEAM.
STAY CONNECTED AND ORGANIZED. ACCOMPLISH MORE TOGETHER ACROSS
WORK, SCHOOL, AND LIFEWITH MICROSOFT TEAMS.
OPPORTUNITIES
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Microsoft announced Teams at an event in
New York, and launched the service Productivity gains and enriched communication
-the breadth of collaboration tools offered in Microsoft 365
worldwide on March 14, 2017.
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can often leave users disoriented. Teams increases
productivity by making all your collaboration–
It was created during an internal hackathon at the company conversations, chats, online meetings, shared files, tasks,
headquarters, and is currently led by Microsoft corporate vice etc. available in one single app and one single interface. In
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president Brian MacDonald. Microsoft Teams is a web-based addition to the widely used apps from Microsoft, you have
desktop app, developed on top of the Electron framework from a wide range of 3rd party apps that integrate into Teams
GitHub which combines the Chromium rendering engine and the so that your users never have to leave the Teams app to
Node.js JavaScript platform. On March 19, 2020, Microsoft get their work done.
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announced Microsoft Teams had hit 44 million daily users, in part
due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Microsoft reported that by April
2020, Microsoft Teams had hit 75 million daily users. On a single CHALLENGES
day in April, it logged 4.1 billion meeting minutes. On June 22,
Structure of files confuse users
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2020, Microsoft announced that its acquired video game live
-millennials and Generation Z don’t care “where” files are
streaming service Mixer would shut down in July, and that its
physically stored, they just search for what they need. Many
staff would be transferred to the Microsoft Teams division.
users still like to know “where” a file is located and go through
Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication
a folder structure to find it. The way files are stored in Teams
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platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365
can be quite confusing. Everything that is uploaded to
family of products. Teams primarily competes with the similar
conversations is dumped in the channel root folder.
service Slack, offering workspace chat and videoconferencing, file
Difficult transition from Outlook
storage, and application integration. Teams is replacing other
The best way to transition to Teams is for everyone who is a
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Microsoft-operated business messaging and collaboration
member of a team to fully embrace Teams and stop using
platforms, including Skype for Business and Microsoft Classroom.
Outlook all together (except for external communication).
However, since there is still a deeply connected dependency
on Outlook in Office 365 this becomes a challenge.
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ONLINE EVENTS.
REAL EXPERIENCES.
FOR YOU.
ZOOM IS #1 IN CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND THE BEST UNIFIED
COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE ON MOBILE.
OPPORTUNITY
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Developing communication skills
-attendees can join by a publicly shared link from
conferences with up to 15 video
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anywhere, and joining does not require downloading any
software. It’s a great option if you are not discussing
participants, was launched on September anything private or secure – a virtual happy hour with
10, 2012. friends, for example. The company has promised to fix
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issues with privacy and security, recently making default
On January 25, 2013, version 1.0 of the program was released with options more secure by requiring passwords to join
an increase in the number of participants per conference to 25. meetings.
By the end of its first month, Zoom had 400,000 users, which rose
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to 1 million by May 2013. After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,
CHALLENGE
by February 2020, Zoom had gained 2.22 million users in 2020 –
more users than it amassed in the entirety of 2019[9] with the
company's share spiking by 35 per cent. On one day in March
Hackers
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2020, the Zoom app was downloaded 2.13 million times. In April
-Zoom has had some glaring problems of privacy and security.
2020, Zoom had more than 300 million daily meeting
“Zoom bombings”, in which hackers enter chat rooms to drop
participants. On August 24, 2020, Zoom experienced widespread
racist language and violent threats, persist. The company had
outages for several hours before service was restored. Zoom was
to fix a bug that would have allowed hackers to take over a
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only using WebSocket technology for video calls but switched to
Zoom user’s Mac. It also had to change some of its policies
WebRTC. The video is displayed using the HTML5 canvas element
after a Motherboard report found Zoom sends data from users
instead of the HTML5 video element. In January 2021, Zoom
of its iOS app to Facebook for advertising purposes.
began hiring workers in Ireland who will work remotely.
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“FACETIME – PHONE
CALLS LIKE YOU’VE NEVER
SEEN BEFORE”
CONNECT WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD WITH FACETIME.
GROUP FACETIME ON IPHONE.
OPPORTUNITIES
HH Apple bought the "FaceTime" name from
Problem solving skills
-we all have to face problems and inconveniences in our
lives that can really throw things off. But thanks to
FaceTime Communications, which
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technology, fixing these issues and problems is easier than
ever. You can help your friends and family solve issues by
changed its name to Actiance in January getting on Facetime and getting a first-hand look at what
2011. they need.
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On June 7, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced FaceTime in Get A Closer Connection To Distant Family
conjunction with the iPhone 4 in a keynote speech at the 2010 If you have family members that live in other parts of the
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Support for the fourth country, staying in touch can be hard. Chatting over the
generation iPod Touch (the first model of iPod Touch equipped phone is great, but it doesn't give you the connection you
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with cameras) was announced in conjunction with the device's want to have with close family.
CHALLENGES
release on September 8, 2010. FaceTime for Mac OS X was
announced on October 20, 2010. In May 2011, it was found that
FaceTime would work seamlessly over 3G on all iPhone, iPad, and Limited availability
FaceTime is only available for users who have Apple devices,
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iPod Touch models that supported it. Even though FaceTime
worked only over 3G at that time, it now supports 4G LTE calls on has a maximum of 32 users per call, and does not allow people
networks all over the world, availability being limited to to join by link, making it hard to spread the word about your
operators' GSM plans. In 2018, Apple added group video and online event in advance.
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audio support to FaceTime which can support up to 32 people in Group FaceTime bug
iOS 12 and macOS Mojave. a bug was discovered in the FaceTime app that allowed users
to eavesdrop on other users without their knowledge through
an exploit. It was later discovered the video feed could be
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enabled without the other users' acceptance. The bug was
named "FacePalm" by security researchers, and affects iOS
devices running Facetime on iOS 12.1 or Mac computers
running MacOS 10.14.1 Mojave.
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THE BEST WAY TO
UNDERSTAND IS TO
TRY IT!
EVERYONE CAN CREATE PROFESSIONAL DESIGNS WITH CANVA.
IT'S EASY TO USE AND FREE.
OPPORTUNITIES
HH The Canva journey began back in 2007
Photo effects to improve photos
-Canva has several effects to enhance photos. You can add
effects to photos that Canva provides and photos you
when Melanie Perkins was studying at
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upload.
the University of Western Australia. Access to photos, videos, and templates
Melanie taught students how to use -you can access 75+ million photos and videos and
420,000+ templates with the Canva Pro plan; a fraction of
programs such as InDesign and
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these are available with the free plan.
Photoshop — programs that people Publish to social media or schedule
found hard to learn and even harder to -like most online photo editors, Canva lets you share your
images directly to some top social networks.
use.
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Obrecht and Cameron Adams on 1 January 2012. In its first year,
Canva had more than 750,000 users. In April 2014, social-media
CHALLENGES
Limited elements
-Canva doesn’t let you conjure elements. These are prebuilt
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designs and design enhancing items such as lines, frames,
and technology expert Guy Kawasaki joined the company as
icons, shapes, and stickers you can add to creations.
chief evangelist (brand promoter). In 2015, Canva for Work was
Not the best photo editor
launched, focusing marketing materials. In December 2019,
-Canva has photo editor features, but it can’t do heavy-duty
Canva announced Canva for Education, a free product for schools
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stuff that tools such as Photoshop can. If you work with more
and other educational institutions intended to facilitate
photos, you should either get Photoshop or combine Canva
collaboration between students and teachers. In January 2020,
with Lightroom.
Canva published its privacy policy in both Legal English and
Generic photos and templates
common language, for which it was commended for making the
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-Canva has hundreds of thousands of templates and millions
terms of use more understandable to users.
of photos. They look great and appear better than many of the
ubiquitous free stuff. But they can look a bit generic. It’s again
because of the rigid nature of Canva.
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