There are loads of pages to help you create your own web pages. You can learn html or use a WYSIWYG html editor.

Useful sites:

Yale Web Style Guide : http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html

ICT4LT Module 3.3 Creating a World Wide Web Site by Fred Riley http://www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm

Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's column on web usability : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ See especially his columns on the top ten mistakes in web design.

The Internet: write your own WWW pages (Graham Davies) : http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/webcreat.htmThis page is specifically for language teachers. Graham Davies is President of EUROCALL.

Knowledge Design (George Mitrevski, Auburn University) The aim of these pages is to illustrate creative pedagogical uses of the Web and Internet technologies that can be adapted to the teaching of any foreign language. Includes several how-to tutorials. http://www.auburn.edu/~mitrege/knowledge/index.html

Redefining the roles of the teacher and learner

Cf. ICT4TL Module 2.3 5.1

"Current learning theoretical advancements, together with the emergence of new learning environments, thus suggest a need for changes in teaching: We need new flexible models for teaching practice. The role of a teacher, as well as that of the learner, is no longer stable, but the requirements change from day to day in the spirit of life long learning. Following the idea of legitimate peripheral participation (Lave & Wenger 1991), we cannot truly talk about learners and teachers, but, instead, of diverse identities which produce a continuum at the other end of which we have the "newcomers", in the middle the "journeyfolk" and at the other "old-timers". A teacher may be an expert of his/her specific area, but the students also have different kinds of expertise. This principle becomes obvious in computer-supported learning projects, in which students often are the masters of the medium instead of the teacher.
Several approaches to developing the teacher role to meet these demands have been suggested. A reflective practitioner (Schön 1983, 1987) is a teacher who critically examines his/her teaching practice and develops it further. Teachers could also be seen as co-learners. This metaphor suggests that instead of delivering content to the students from an expert point of view, a teacher should engage in collaborative research projects with the students. This approach would involve the teacher assisting the students in the process, but also learning from it as an equal participator. As authenticity and originality of the learning process are essential for successful learning projects, and good learning outcomes, the students should also be engaged in planning the learning tasks, processes and environments. In a sense, a new working metaphor for a teacher could be a co-designer: an expert of learning and content area who designs learning tasks and processes together with the students. When the students are involved in planning the process and contents of learning projects their motivation towards and engagement with them increases."

Articles

The use of collaborative Web page-design projects for teaching EFL, with a focus on Japanese university students, Iain Davey, CALL-EJ ONline, http://www.lerc.ritsumei.ac.jp/callej/6-1/davey.html

Dechesne Marti, "Trials and Tribulations of an Internet Site Project" in The CAELL Journal 8 (3), 13-17. http://www.multimania.com/dechesnm.internet.htm (dead link 23/10/00)
4th yr computer science students at Montpellier 2. The project involved creating a site in English for international students considering the Université de Montpellier 2 or who were new to the city of Montpellier. Each student also created a personal homepage, and there was a site evaluation project. She believes that the project was a success: it created a genuine communicative environment and meant that in class questions were based on real needs in a real situation.

Garcia-Vitoria, Laura, De l'utilisation de l'internet à la réalisation de pages web comme support principal de didactique de langues, http://services.worldnet.net/ote/text0009.htm

Stuart D. Lee, Susan Armitage, Paul Groves, and Chris Stephens, Online Teaching: Tools & Projects, the World -Wide Web: Its uses as a Teaching Tool, especially D. Some Ideas for Web pages, http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/chapter4.html

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