Desperately busy week with lots of training and preparing for such sessions. I'm not going to try and catch up the whole week I'm afraid. Suffice to say, there's not been enough time to fit everything and for once I've actually taken work home.

Partly because there always seems to be so much to fit into the tiny gaps that might remain in my diary, partly because I get a fair number of 'interruptions' from students knocking on the door with shorter or longer requests, and partly because at least two of the sessions this week have been new topics for me which is always stretching.

One was a lunchtime and then an evening session on 'Good Googling'. Not many signed up for the slots but then quite a few came as a drop in. Must have 25 all told which wasn't bad for something that isn't assessed. Seemed to go well as well - but I did spend a fair bit of time preparing. I may use Google a lot, but I'm not an expert.

Another session involved training colleagues on a new bit of software. Inspiration - a mindmapping tool. I'll save the longer story behind that for another day, but scary though it is doing anything in front of colleagues this seemed to go down reasonably well and managed to be vaguely inspirational as well as merely informational. I even managed to use the software itself to present the presentation - if you see what I mean - which may be worth exploring for student training.