Yesterday I attended the 19th annual Educational Technology [1] day
at
Ithaca College in Ithaca NY, USA. As you may have guessed by the
title, this show is focused on technologies used in k-12 as well as
higher education.
I was camped out in the Ithaca Free Software Association [2] booth for
the day, so I must extend a hearty thank you to Eric and Marty for
their booth hospitality. I also need to thank Charles Profitt of the
Rochester LUG/Ubuntu NY LoCo for giving me a ride to Ithaca (going
green by way of the carpool). And last but not least, Brian Neil for
volunteering his time to jockey all 320 disc in and out of my printing
and duplicating equipment.
I met with a mix of Students, faculty and staff from numerous schools
in upstate NY (Elmira College, Cornell, Syracuse, University of
Rochester, K-12 from the area Etc). I was also able to meet with
community members. In fact, the rush was more like a crush of
people. For example, we had 300 discs at 9am when the doors opened.
At 10:30 we handed out the last disc. (I saved 20 sugar spins for my
talk and I'm glad I did)
While it's my preferance to keep a notebook handy to record contact
info for the people I meet with, this was darn near impossible.
Instead I relied upon my business card and the few I was able to
collect. As of this writing, I've made contact with those I had cards
for and I've had one email come in.
My presentation of OLPC - What if..? was well attended. While I
didn't get a head count, we made it to standing room only - so I would
estimate 40-ish.
Immediately after my presentation I was again, mobbed with questions
about Math4, OLPC and Fedora at the booth. (good stuff eh?)
At about 2pm I was finally able to go visit the other booths and was
stopped in the main hall by David Weil, the chair person for EdTech.
He thanked me for coming on short notice and offered OLPC/Fedora/Sugar
Labs space for next year.
One final note, I was able to promote POSSE a bit so I hope we'll be
able to fill the bootcamp. Reply with questions.
Notes at
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Webpath/EdTech
Photos at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23277267@N03/sets/72157615986454834/
Karlie
[1]
http://www.ithaca.edu/edtechday
[2]
http://ithacafreesoftware.org/
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