Instant messaging apps: Whatsapp and Telegram (Biblioteques)

Instant messaging apps: Whatsapp and Telegram (Biblioteques)
Learn how to use Whatsapp and Telegram (instant messaging applications) and learn about their forms of use. Bring your device and discover its possibilities together.
Specific goals | Temary
Objectives and syllabus
What is an instant messaging application? Learn about the applications everyone talks about, save the costs of SMS and come to learn and master how you can send messages, photos, audios and the most common types of files used by your contacts. Do you want to talk to someone who lives far away? Also learn to make calls and video calls through the internet and save the costs of international calls.
Specific objectives
- Understand what individual and group chats are.
- Make telephone calls and video calls.
- Send and receive photos, videos and audios.
Complete Syllabus
- What is a chat? Differences with SMS: advantages and disadvantages
- Add and manage contacts
- Whatsapp vs Telegram, similarities and differences
- Explanation of the usual elements of the screen
- Settings: account, privacy, profile, notifications
- Data consumption
- Manage multimedia content (videos, photos, gifts) to free up space
- Chat attachments: photos, contacts, location...
- SPAM and harmful content, scams, false information, unknown telephone numbers.
- Group creation and management, creation and management of dissemination lists
- Calls and video calls
- Whatsapp Web / Telegram Web
This activity is taught in the Antenes Cibernàrium located in the multimedia spaces of the Biblioteques de Barcelona network.
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