The article deals with the necessity of formation of the teacher's experience as a subject of educational and information activity in the electronic environment. The author analyzes the peculiarities of the professional activity of the teacher in the context of the development of information technologies and the strengthening the global communication systems. Two ways of providing technological and organizational conditions for the development of such experience in training in a university are discussed. The experience of the Volgograd State Social and Pedagogical University on the implementation of these conditions is described.

The article deals with the potential of using the technologies of the Internet of things for the system of intelligent access to educational information on the school website. The authors clarify the general concepts of the Internet of things and describe the concept of “smart class” and “smart schools” as the intellectual educational environment. The methods of identifying the users in the system of “smart class” are under consideration. The system of access to the information on the school website within the context of the work of teachers and students is described in the article.

The article deals with the use of information technologies when organizing remote contests and Olympiads. The authors analyze the potential of e-mail, traditional websites, as well as Internet social services for all stages of remote contests. Three approaches to development of websites of educational contests and Olympiads are substantiated. The development of a software module of the system of institutional support of open competitions and Olympiads are described in the article, the research results regarding the development of experimental website of competitions and contests based on the software module are represented.

There are regarded the requirements of the professional standard to the ICT competence of a teacher. There is analyzed the connection of general user’s, general pedagogic and subject and pedagogic components of the ICT competence with the key, basic and special competences of a teacher. There are described the stages of formation of the components of the ICT competence in training of future teachers, guidelines, contents, methods and forms of implementation of each stage.

There are considered the issues of establishment and development of professional Internet communities of teachers, increase in their number. There are described the peculiarities of work of a teacher as a new participant of the professional Internet community. There are considered the characteristics of the stages of teacher’s “immersion” in the professional Internet community: initial acquaintance, learning and user’s stage, heuristic and creative collaboration.

There are covered the basic issues of teaching theory in the Internet network communities. There is revealed the notion of network community as a collective subject of social and informational activity on the Internet, described the educational opportunities of network communities, as well as the peculiarities of educational projects realization in the Internet communities.