Building community and posting projects: Creating "student pages" in web-based and web-enhanced courses

The author presents pedagogical arguments for integrating web-based student pages into intermediate- and upper-level foreign language courses. She shows how web-based student pages used for community-building activities and the presentation of culture projects contribute to meeting the five C's-Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities-as they are outlined in the 1996 ACTFL Standards for Foreign Language Learning. Based on the author experience with web-based student pages in an online German course, this article offers models that can be applied in both web-based and web-enhanced foreign language courses.