Teachers' Competence in Using Information and Educational Internet Resources in the Education Process

This paper discusses teachers' levels of competence in the use of information and education Internet resources in the education process, which are very relevant for contemporary teachers. We can distinguish two main categories of activity: 1. Purposeful and effective use of information and educational Internet resources by users (learners and teachers). 2. Ability to create one's own didactic resources and develop an informational and educational environment: each main skill included in teacher competence comprises a number of sub-skills, presented in an ascending order: 1.1. Search activities on the basis of a thematic hierarchical directory; 1.2. Search activities using search programmes (software search engines); 1.3. Skills to evaluate sites for efficient use in the educational process; 1.4. Using the potential of information and educational Internet resources for the research activities of students in the learning process; 1.5. Skills in area of the objective and comprehensive assessment of a distance course. 2.1. Developing own educational environment in the form of thematic catalogue of the subject area or a personal web-site; 2.2. Training and assisting students in developing their own information and educational resources on the basis of Internet technologies; 2.3. Participation in the development of an educational portal (school, region, etc.). Use of educational portal resources; 2.4. Development and conducting of distance learning courses using a Content Learning Management System (CLMS MOODLE, Claroline, ATutor, Dokeos, etc.); 2.5. Use of all (or most) Web 2.0 services for development of one's own information and education environment. The author also describes examples and methodological bases for the implementation of these skills into practice at school.