TESTIMONIES OF TEACHERS USING EXTENSIVELY AND CREATIVELY WEB 2.0: BENEFITS AND PREREQUISITIES

Proposals for the integration of social media in the school environment have become commonplace in several research studies and political initiations. However, the beneficial aspects of web 2.0 exploitation in real educational settings should not be considered self-evident and have not also been extensively studied, so there are still teachers who are not convinced of the beneficial educational use of web 2.0 technologies. The purpose of this article is to present the positive outcomes of Web 2.0 learning activities as they were identified from 26 Greek teachers with extensive e-social presence and web 2.0 teaching experience. The teachers indicated that web 2.0 learning activities promote learner to the center of the learning process, open the doors of the schools to society, help students learn how to cooperate, communicate and socialize, enable them to reflect more on their thoughts before they express themselves and extend the time-space of the educational dialogue beyond the classrooms' physical limits. However, teachers also highlighted specific conditions under which those learning activities can be successful.