Websites as a modern means of boosting a specialist’s professionalism

Abstract

The article demonstrates that pedagogical sites are becoming increasingly popular in education, and defines approaches to their classification, e.g. their division into static and dynamic ones. Special attention of the research is paid to dynamic websites, as ones which greatly facilitate working with information, allowing users to regularly update it with minimal losses of traffic. The analysis of the computer environment through the definition of the features of the most popular online sites, which was conducted in the process of doing the present research, proves that Joomla, a content management system with great opportunities for building websites and favorable user-friendly terms, is the most suitable for the conditions of the current research. The article defines the essence of the author’s dynamic pedagogical site, used for boosting social and information competence of the journalist, as an information and pedagogical construct which allows the teacher to positively influence the formation of the communicative and information components of the professional activities of these specialists through the integrated application of measures for implementing relevant theoretical and practical training as well as for developing their professionally relevant qualities through mobile use of information technology. The article contains information about the structure of the author’s dynamic pedagogical site developed specifically for the mentioned target group.