Cloud technologies for the development of digital communication competence

The article presents the cloud technologies, especially open-source, necessary and important for the training and development of digital communication skills in pupils and students. The ways in which these technologies can be exploited for the effective development of the mentioned competence are explained. The formulated recommendations are addressed to both educational institutions and teaching staff and the main beneficiaries: pupils and students. One of the main results is the correspondence diagram between the descriptors of digital communication competence (interaction and communication, content sharing, involvement in social life, collaboration, netiquette, digital identity management, communication and collaboration security) and cloud technologies (e-mail, video conferencing, educational platforms, forums, online interactive whiteboards, express assessment applications, speech development platforms, blogs, websites, concept maps, document editing applications) that support the development of these descriptors.