Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Reflection on Day 3

Webquests, and all the work they entail on the part of the creator: it's all coming back to me.  I like webquests a lot, and I always meant to use them more in my teaching, but now I am remembering why exactly that hasn't happened, up to this point.  Making one of these things is no quick or easy task.  I want to make a good one, something I can be proud of (unlike that Soundation composition) so this is going to take real focus on my part for the next 24 hours.

At any rate, I know that a good webquest is a powerful teaching/learning tool.  Given that there is such a large amount of already existing webquests available on the web, I think it would be smart to search what's already out there and use any that I think are worthwhile in my lessons this school year.  No point in reinventing the wheel, after all.

The sites search this morning was cool, but also somewhat overwhelming.  I found my attention split amongst so many different sites and ideas that it became difficult to really tell what was worth bookmarking and what wasn't.  I did love the Isle of Tunes site, and I am curious to try the Plinking site with my students.  On the whole, it reminded me that there is a wealth of great music learning sites out there, and I should make a point to regularly integrate them into my lessons. 

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