Creating educational Web sites

This article deals with the issue of educators creating their own educational Web sites equipped with original Web-based teaching materials developed by themselves. As an illustrative example, teaching of English as a foreign language in Japan is taken. Several concrete ideas in building up educational Web sites are illustrated, including an example of Web-based rapid reading exercise pages, an example of Web pages implementing instant feedback to students' quiz responses, and semi-automatic creation of students' study history files using standard commercially available software. Introduction of the next-generation Web server, developed at Graz University of Technology, for effective document management and organized access rights control is also discussed.