In all and for whatever it’s worth, I thought that West Ed (definitely) meant well and (largely) did well with its live chat and its omniscient-POV moderator.

Heh. Picture looked like a cheerful police booking, though.

In any event, I was asked to do a web presentation of a live presentation I’d done previously, where folks watched me flip through a powerpoint through some internet hook-up, and listened to me talk on the phone. Meanwhile a still image one of my students took sat in the corner. It was a bizarre thing: You can’t interact, you can’t see who’s there, you can’t build of reactions. West Ed archived the thing, and hearing it again, with my voice sounding ridiculously full of treble, was… odd.