Parle avec Moi: Training in digital and linguistic competence in a French course hosted in a wiki platform

A French blended course called Parle avec Moi was developed at the University of Padua. Parle avec Moi was based on a wiki platform (PBworks). The aims of the course were manifold: linguistic, metalinguistic (since conversational analysis was the main theoretical topic of the course), and methodological. The virtual context created using Web 2.0 tools helped the students consolidate and widen their active role and autonomy, fostering many of the key competences for lifelong learning outlined by the European Parliament and the Council framework (European Union, 2008), and above all, to develop their digital competence (2006/962/EC). In particular, students experimented with the three dimensions of the concept of digital competence outlined by Calvani et al. (2009) in their research project for assessing digital competence. Besides these introductory materials, which led to a certain savoir faire, to a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of internet-based communication, students were successfully instructed in becoming (savoir être) good builders of common knowledge in a wiki community.