July 14 – 18, 2008, Lee Kolbert (Palm Beach) and Cheryl Woolwine (Palatka) Florida DEN Stars, attended the DEN Leadership Council Institute, in Silver Spring MD. It was held in the Headquarters for Discovery Education. Once again Discovery out did itself. They treated us like royalty for 5 days. Food was awesome, lodging great, and the networking was the best ever. They always seem to know the right projects to get us to excel and share our techie knowledge. We started out Monday, creating our own version of the Discovery Channel commercial, Boom Di Yada – you can see our version here (South East) http://blog.
Friday we shared projects and were a little sad that our time together was coming to an end. We twittered and plurked and streamed and back channeled and …… and shared and shared and shared.
Oh I almost forgot they gave us stuff also. We received a T-shirt from Animal Planet, a polo leadership council shirt, USB hub (cool), and a green screen blanket.
I guess you could say it was a successful week – it definitely did a lot to improve my Professional and Personal Learning Network.
Special Thanks to Lance, Matt, Steve, Juanita, Brad, Dennis, & Brian, and anyone else that made this week possible.
“I just got home from NY this past week….will share some of my NECC precon and NECC thoughts with you later today”
I attended the second week of the NI in Silver Spring and can’t say enough good things about it. It was a great experience. The networking and sharing of ideas we did last week was incredible. Thanks Discovery!
Glad so much learned in such a short amount of time. Have a great school year.
That sounds like an awesome experience! After meeting some of the DEN folks at FETC 2009, I now know how that could so easily be true. I look forward to the time that I will be in attendance. Thanks for sharing!