Attendee of my local User Group Presentation

My local .NET User Group hold a technical presentation today and the topic is Database Programming with .NET - A Quick Start. This presentation is hold by my User Group and a tertiary educational insitutation cooperatively and target for the students.

Well, I'm not a speaker for this session, and I didn't sit in the bench of staff, but I sit next to the students. I want to be a undercover man to the students and I want to know what's their response or attitude to the presentation.

My observation: The speaker show a working demo and the student open their VS.NET and try to follow the step by step tutorial. Unfortunately, they write a couple lines of code and then... open Solitaire, check email, ... etc (I'm writing my blog too :P

Is it a normal behaviour of attendee? Alright, I stop here and listen to the speaker now.