Back on March 25th, I spent the day at Ithaca College for Educational Technology Day.  As many of you know, my daughter is an education major and she was set to go with me but instead picked up two days of substitute teaching.  I took off that morning on my own – no big deal as I am somewhat familiar with IC – for EdTechDay.

EdTechDay has been in existence for 20 years.  It is a regional technology event.  While geared towards higher education, the event is free of cost and draws over 1600 people in all educational areas – K-12 and higher education – as well as businesses.  While I do not normally consult in the educational field, I do a lot of work with technology for some of my clients so I took the day and went to seminars and on two tours of buildings on the campus of Ithaca College.

I sat in on a seminar on Universal Threat Management.  The theory behind the product that was being sold was solid and intriguing in that threat management is best if done in one concerted effort as opposed to pieced together.  I also sat in on two shorter sessions – one geared towards the use of social networking in college classes and one geared towards setting up web sites that easy to use, with emphasis on library sites.  I was a happy alumnae when the library site the presenters chose to use was from WVU.

The first tour I went on was led by David Priester and was the Roy H. Park School of Communications.  Below are pictures from the tour.

The Park School has approximately 1200 undergraduate students that are studying everything from communications and design to cinematography to journalism.  There is a graduate program in communications that admits approximately 50 students.  The photos above include control rooms, lending “library” for production, and the building itself at the beginning of the gallery.