Report on Existing Good Practices

Report on Existing Good Practices The Web2Learn Project

Disclaimer: The project Web2Learn has been funded with support from the European Commission. This document reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

1 List of Good Practices Web and Internet have changed significantly the last years. Now the web user is also web content creator. Virtual interactions, collaboration, sharing of knowledge through web are the current trends that need to get exploited in education. Therefore, the Web2Learn project tries to familiarize adults (mainly parents but not exclusively) on current web 2.0 learning tools and practices so that to use them for creating better learning experiences for children and themselves and personal development.

These facts became the crucial argument to form a list of web 2.0 good practices which were tested by the Web2Learn project team to make the target group familiarized with the tools within eight thematic groups. This effort resulted in 34 recommended good practices included in the chart below. The chart contains a logo, name, type and website of chosen tools.

Detailed description of each tool is available when clicking on the name of the tool which works as a hypertext link. The tool descriptions are a part of Handbook of web 2.0 tools. logo

tool

type

website

AudioBoo

Communication skills development

www.audioboo.fm

Blogger

Professional e-portfolio

www.blogger.com

Clilstore

Communication without barriers

www.multidict.net

Delicious

Info management and sharing

www.delicious.com

Diigo

Info management and sharing

www.diigo.com

Dropbox

Effective collaboration

www.dropbox.com

Edmodo

Info management and sharing

www.edmodo.com

Facebook

Personal and professional networks

www.facebook.com

Fotobabble

Communication skills development

www.fotobabble.com

GoAnimate

Engaging presentations

www.goanimate.com

Google Alerts

Info management and sharing

www.google.com/alerts

Google Docs

Effective collaboration

www.drive.google.com

Disclaimer: The project Web2Learn has been funded with support from the European Commission. This document reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Google Drive

Effective collaboration

www.drive.google.com

Google Hangouts

Communication without barriers

www.google.com/hangouts

Google Maps

Info management and sharing

www.google.com/maps

Google+

Personal and professional networks

www.plus.google.com

IDentifEYE

Reflection tools

www.identifeye.org

Instagram

Personal and professional networks

www.instagram.com

iPadio

Communication skills development

www.ipadio.com

Khan Academy

Info management and sharing

www.khanacademy.org

LinkedIn

Personal and professional networks

www.linkedin.com

Mind24

Engaging presentations

www.mind24.com

Paper.li

Info management and sharing

www.paper.li

Prezi

Engaging presentations

www.prezi.com

Scoop.it

Info management and sharing

www.scoop.it

Screenr

Engaging presentations

www.screenr.com

Skype

Communication without barriers

www.skype.com

Slideshare

Engaging presentations

www.slideshare.net

Twitter

Personal and professional networks

www.twitter.com

Vimeo

Info management and sharing

www.vimeo.com

WhatsApp

Communication without barriers

www.whatsapp.com

Wikipedia

Info management and sharing

www.wikipedia.org

Wordpress

Professional e-portfolio

www.wordpress.org

YouTube

Info management and sharing

www.youtube.com

Disclaimer: The project Web2Learn has been funded with support from the European Commission. This document reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

2 Methodology The Web2Learn project scope was designed to familiarise adults, mainly parents but not exclusively, on current web 2.0 learning tools and practices so that to use them for creating better learning experience for children and themselves and personal development. The whole project cycle covers several phases which results in the final outcomes. The phases include choosing the wider range of tools, their testing at national level of every partner and selection of the most convenient ones for the target group according to proposed criteria.

When working out the main objective of the project team according to the specification and the abovementioned aims, the following aspects were taken into consideration:   

Does the tool have a real practical use for parents?

Does the tool have a real practical use for the target group in their professional or private life?

Does the tool have a real practical, educational use for children?

The factors have a crucial impact on choosing the existing good practices set to help parents in the participating countries get familiarized on web 2.0 jargon and phrases used in web 2.0 children community as well as to establish stronger connections between parents, especially unemployed ones, and their children. This objective is closely connected with our effort to raise awareness on the benefits as well as precautions implied from web 2.0 learning to parental communities.

3 Conclusion The whole Web2Learn project team believes that all the final outcomes will help to familiarize the target group with web 2.0 tools and thus raise their competitive ability on the labour market. We have to bear in mind that the environment of web 2.0 tools is still in motion so it requires constant self-education related to this field. This material provides thorough information about those tools which are relevant and beneficial for your work.

The Web2Learn project team

Disclaimer: The project Web2Learn has been funded with support from the European Commission. This document reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.