As if the stress of NOT teaching in the morning wasn't enough, I then had the fun of the afternoon.

Yesterday, fairly late in the day, I'd been approached by one of the computing department's tutor center researchers. She'd been put onto me by the academic who'd sent me the nice quote last Friday. Between the pair of them, their bright idea was me to basically video my teaching session in chunks to put into the virtual learning environment. I quickly persuaded them that although I was up for trying that, it was demonstrating webpages for the most part so video might not be the best approach. But they had just the tool. I forget its name but you could record audio as you travelled around web pages and demonstrated resources and search techniques.

Although they'd only dreamed this up and asked if I had a spare moment yesterday, they had to get it done by the end of the week. Which pretty much only left this afternoon. I was under no illusions that it would be quick - and it wasn't. Three hours later we'd just about knocked a 50 minute teaching session into bitesize manageable chunks and I've yet to be convinced that it will be of any use at all. It's not the same as being there in real life. But we'll see. I'll certainly be interested to see the output.