I had done some revision to my lesson plan for today. The last three classes I had taught were workshops and the attendees were self selected and therefore (presumably) had a reason to be there. For today’s class, this was a assigned class period. In terms of teaching, this was a luxury. I had a full two hours and it was written into the syllabus. The ambitious part came when I decided to roll some orientation concepts into a full Pubmed orientation. I had a series of six exercises each building on the previous concept. We covered known vs unknown searching, using boolean to construct, filters, and intro to MeSH,…