Webquests in My Classroom

So, the question is, would or would I not use webquests in my future classroom? The answer is, I am undecided. I am still not convinced at how useful they actually are, but I can see a small benefit of getting students more comfortable with the WWW. Thinking about my future classroom, though, the odds of one of my students not knowing how to use the internet is probably very small. Even if students don't have internet access at home, surely they go to their friends' houses or even to the school library. I think it's safe to say we are entering into this techonology era where every kid will know how to use a computer. They already walk around with iPods and iPads and who knows what else, so what's to say that they can't use a computer. So, I think that while webquests may help students learn to get around on the internet, I can't say for certain if I would want to use them in my classroom. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what the situation is when I get into teaching.

Wiki Work

Now I can officially say that I know how to make a wiki. How much will I actually be able to use one?...I have no idea. But at least I am somewhat proficient in them now. Although, in one of my other education classes, we are doing a group project. We met in our groups yesterday and one girl suggested that we could make a wiki to keep in touch and exhange information since we're all in different majors and are busy. Hypothetically, if that wiki lecture had been next week or something, I would have no idea what that girl was talking about-and since everyone else did, that could have been embarassing. I'm one step closer in becoming savvy with technology.

So the first assignment we did was evaluating websites. We got to choose a website and go down a detailed list, making sure it had accurate information and wasn't biased in any way. I chose a music theory resource website and found that it had a lot of great resources for teaching young kids the fundamentals of music theory. The site had a lot of games for the students to play and ways for teachers to assess their knowledge of skills through the games.
I thought this assignment was kind of easy and that anyone could have faked their way through it, but that if you actually took the time to look closely, you were able to learn a lot about how to recognize bad resources on the web.

The website I looked at : http://www.emusictheory.com/