Grrrr. I’m trying to participate in the EDUCAUSE Live event about Google’s Library Digitization Project but am unable to do so. 🙁 Login was fine, but after about 5 minutes Firefox crashed. Restarted and it happened again. Tried IE. Finally logged in after about 7 minutes of just sitting there. Got audio but no video (slides). Killed IE and tried Mozilla. Logged me in and then crashed. Back to IE, loooong time, then finally got in with audio. Video followed about 3 minutes later, but the audio quality quickly began to degrade and now I’m completely locked out again.
This is the second online session in a row where this has happened to me (the first wasn’t with Educause). It may be bandwidth issues on my campus (which would be sad as there are almost no students here right now), or maybe it’s something else (there were 228 participants in this session, I noticed before I lost it). Anyhoo, they do make the archives available, so I’ll just get my fix later. It’s probably good to experience real life as a distance student from time to time 🙂