Though Seneca county is only 2.5 hours away from Rochester, FOSS@RIT had yet to interact with our neighbors to the southeast, that is until last week. Through Charles Profitt, I was invited along to attend Ithaca's Education Technology Day or EdTechDay for short. EdTechDay is a gathering of education and technology professionals to meet, discuss, and share stories and showcase best practices, hardware, and new tools. Of the talks I attended, the "Discuss IT" tracks were the most informal and conversational. I attended the sessions discussing the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report and Discuss IT... Opensource.

New Media Consortium Horizon Report

For the uninitiated, the following is how the NMC describes itself (full text here)

"The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies."