Adobe Education Leaders

Last week was the Adobe Education Leaders summer institute. We hosted about 75 educators from all over the United States, plus the UK, Germany, Austria, New Zealand, and Australia. These educators are a mix of K-12 teachers, administrators, technology coordinators, and e-learning specialists. But, they all love Adobe products and work to both spread the word about our products within the education community and help us better understand what the K-12 community needs in terms of educational technology solutions.

The AELs spent three full days hearing our plans for the coming year, learning about new products coming out, getting some professional development on how to use our products, and sharing what they have been doing in their classrooms and school districts. It was really neat to hear how these educators are using our products and it gave us lots of ideas of how to help them better and provided some overarching motivation for me. It's always nice to know that what you're doing is actually helpful to some people. 

During the week, we had a bunch of social events, including dinner at Medjool and a night on a dinner cruise around the San Francisco Bay (see the picture above).