The access to computers is quite good at our school. In fact, I even had a student complete an online class using only the campus computers last semester. I teach four levels of ESL writing, and the web project is completed in the highest level course which is our freshman composition. I try to keep it very simple because it doesn't take much extra text to blow students away. I've helped the students to synthesize their ideas and materials for one thing which is one of the major goals of a writing course.
Students have a hard time understanding that there is a real audience out there when writing papers.
Then I have a question to Deb. With web pages, however, they understand that someone else will see the page. I've tried other but newbies like it best. We don't teach the students any HTML coding although some of them know it. No doubt about that, Marshall.