Creating educational Web sites

This article deals with the issue of educators creating their own education al 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 educatio nal Web sites are illustrated, including an example of Web-based rapid read ing exercise pages, an example of Web pages implementing instant feedback t o 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 Technolo gy, for effective document management and organized access rights control i s also discussed.