Over the past couple of months my life has mostly been like the above. The reason? I’ve been doing a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course at Saint George International and oh what a busy time it’s been. Anyone who has done one of these courses will know just how crazily intensive they can be, not mention the sheer exhaustion of meeting deadlines for both the course and your daytime job (as I have been).
Anyway, something which has both hindered and helped me is the sheer extent of teaching resources available on the web. True to form, the internet has opened up a plethora of suggestions, lesson plans, authentic material, even TEFL blogs, for me to browse and use as my own. However, I find it very difficult to know when to stop searching and clicking and just ‘get on with it’.
Progams such as Netvibes and del.icio.us are genius tools for customizing and categorizing our browsing, in just one manageable and portable viewing platform, but in the age of Web 2.0 are we letting the internet overwhelm us? I personally am conscious of becoming a bit of a ‘click-a-holic’, without ever really concentrating on any of the many sites I click through.
This is an issue I’d like to explore further in later posts, when I have time of course……….!
