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Another lesson in the frustrations when technology doesn't quite work the way it should when you want to use it for learning.

Much as I've found elluminate useful in the past, and tonight's was no exception in that respect, it becomes very difficult to follow when it keeps cutting out and then catchs up at a million miles an hour.

I felt a bit outside the conversation tonight as a result, and not really as much of a part of it as I have done with previous sessions.

Still useful to help me think about things, but there were several times where I felt where I was in the conversation was a couple of steps behind the rest of the group and I was playing catch up the whole time.  I was never really entirely sure what I had been mentioned in the discussion as a whole (especially as the connection cut out completely at one point, so I didn't even get the fast forward catch up), and didn't feel as able to contribute to the discussion as a result (although I still tried to throw my thoughts into the mix).