I've signed up for some teaching induction which is proving both useful and interesting. Strictly it's for new members of staff who are new to teaching altogether but I'm not that experienced or knowledgeable that I'd want to pass up the opportunity to learn more about I ought to be doing or could be doing better. And I certainly am learning from the sessions. Plus get to meet members of staff I might never otherwise see.

But the very final session is one I won't be sitting through because my boss is running that final hour and wants me to contribute. We planned it this morning and once again summer conference material proved to be just the thing to drag out and structure what we're planning on saying. A mindmap from a South African contributor had particular struck me, and this was an ideal moment for it. Or at least the much expanded version that my boss and worked out.

All that was well and good but perhaps the most intriguing thing about the hour we spent planning over a whiteboard and computer was the tips I was able to pass on. The trick of going over marks on a whiteboard that have been written in indelible pen with the correct pen so that both rub out was perhaps a bit esoteric; but surely everyone who uses a computer - 'specially pretty much all day - knows about Alt Tabbing between applications?!