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An overview of good practice Web 2.0 tools as resulting from the European project Web2Learn. The project has been funded with support from the European Commission. The document reflects the view only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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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.
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
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
Personal and professional networks
www.instagram.com
iPadio
Communication skills development
www.ipadio.com
Khan Academy Info management and
sharing www.khanacademy.org
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
Personal and professional networks
www.twitter.com
Vimeo
Info management and sharing
www.vimeo.com
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
