The World Wide Web PROVIDES teachers with additional options, GIVING a new additional dimension to their teaching repertoire. A do-it-yourself website is just one of these options. This webpage will explore several options and suggest ways that even overworked teachers can MAKE effective use of the Web. The full text of Do-It-Yourself Websites for University Teachers has been posted on the Goken Kiyo website (click here to view it). Examples EXPLAINED in the paper are DEMONSTRATED below.

        Do-it-yourself, by the way, does NOT mean that you have to start from scratch and reinvent the wheel ... AND, of course, you are NOT alone. You can WORK together with interested colleagues in your department, your university, or other universities. The World Wide Web CONNECTS us all, and most of its resources are freely available.

        Here are some options:

• Option #1. CONNECT to resources on the Internet, VIEW webpages and, perhaps, PROJECT them onto a screen during class.

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  Of course, you have to FIND them first, and it may seem like you are searching for a needle in a haystack. The good news is that once you find a webpage, it may be LINKED to other useful webpages. The bad news is that you have no control over the content and layout. These resources may suddenly change OR disappear completely.

• Option #2. Have someone, a colleague perhaps, HELP you CREATE your own website. This is what Prof. Ssali has done. Now he has a very popular site. Furthermore he has full control of what is POSTED on it. He or his colleague can UPLOAD new webpages and DELETE old ones.

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  You can HELP your students and fellow teachers by POSTING content that is of mutual benefit. Furthermore, whoever you GET to DEVELOP and MAINTAIN the site can TEACH you and your fellow teachers the skills that are NEEDED to do it yourself.

• Option #3. Once you LEARN how to EDIT and UPLOAD webpages, you will have complete control, INCLUDING the amount of time and effort that you WANT to INVEST. You can GO at your own pace. Websites are flexible and always under construction. You can ADD (a) what you what, (b) when you want. The longest journey BEGINS with a single step.

  I have an idea for a Verb Thesaurus in which the verbs are CONNECTED to videos that ILLUSTRATE their meaning. I have STARTED in a small way, but I am too old to TAKE the project very far. Perhaps, some of you could CONTINUE it, ADDING your own ideas as you go.

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  You do NOT have to reinvent the wheel. You can VIEW the Source Documents of other people's webpages and IMMITATE what they have done.

        Do you NEED a website? Of course, not ... no more than you NEEDED a Smartphone before you GOT one. You DISCOVERED what it could do for you as you LEARNED how to USE it. It probably ADDED a whole new dimension to your life.

Having a website will GIVE you options that you never HAD before. It is entirely up to you which ones you WANT to EXPLORE. You can IGNORE some and EXPERIMENT with others ... at your own pace.

        Example 1 (below) is a simple sample of (a) the source code for a short List of Questions with some individual words added to the bottom and (b) the resulting webpage. These simple instructions can be used to create paragraph texts as well as lists.
        Anything enclosed in angular brackets is an instruction. These instructions do NOT appear on the webpage. Some of them occur in start-stop pairs. A slash mark at the beginning indicates a Stop instruction.
        Because this IS a webpage, I have substututed rounded brackets for angular brackets. Otherwise you could not see them. You will have to insert angular brackets in place of the rounded brackets when you write your source code.

        Example 2 illustrates the source code for links from text within one webpage to the top of another webpage. In the source document I have put the text that will appear on the webpage in bold letters to separate it from the instructions. Instructions, of course, do NOT appear. Notice also that bold letters in the source document do NOT appear as bold letters on the webpage ... unless you enter instructions to that effect in the source code.

        As a final touch to your profile you might wnat to insert a photo. Image files for photos and all other digital images, even those that are embedded in a webpage have their own URL address on the Internet. Start Instructions for image links will locate, download, and embed the image into any webpages that contain those links. The source code also controls the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the embedded image.

Source Document		Webpage [3]
(html) (center) (a href="http://www.agu.ac.jp/ ~vicks62/jeffreyb/images/Blair.gif") (IMG SRC="http://www.agu.ac.jp/ ~vicks62/jeffreyb/images/newBlair.jpg" width=111 height=184)(/a) (/center) (/html)

        Volumes of Foreign Languages & Literature have been posted on the Aichi Gakuin University website since 2005. I simply link the titles on my Research index page to the department's Goken Kiyo webpage. This makes the full text of my articles available to the cyber public 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

        To avoid any suspicion of wrongdoing and assure peope that you are a responsible webmaster: (1) When you link to an image, send a message requesting permission to link, (2) post the URL addresses of images and label them either "Used with Permission" OR "Permission Pending", (3) link "permission pending" to a request for permission and an explanation of the nature of your website, (4) request that people contact you directly with questions, comments, or criticisms, (5) remove links promptly if you receive a legitimate complaint.

        A sentence can be linked to any point (minute and second) within a video clip in order (1) to let students HEAR it in the dialog OR (2) to let them SEE the event. Rather than link an entire sentence, prefer to link only the verb cluster.

        BREAKING up sentences into their verb cluster and noun phrases and DISPLAYING them in a table make grammar patterns easy to REMEMBER and thus to practice.