Making on-line cultural heritage visible for educational proposes

As the literature (Juanola; Calbó; Valles, 2006; Fontal, 2003; Calaf, 2009) suggests and from what we saw in our research, heritage education promotes students' personal development. During the academic year 2008/09, we carried out a pilot experiment in heritage education through internet within the framework of Catalonia. It brought different actors (cultural managers, teachers, secondary school students and coordinators) into a virtual platform as user and co-producers of digital objects with heritage contents. The study evidences the importance of heritage institutions delivering contents on the world wide web. This contribution wants to show educational uses of digital objects with heritage contents (images, videos, etc.) so that students of compulsory secondary educational acquire knowledge and skills related to heritage, syllabus core subjects and digital literacy.