7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me Meme

Ryan Bretag tagged me in the lastest meme doing the round, so here are 7 things you didn’t know about me:

I’m a Cumbrian – I grew up in the Lake District, quite near to the infamous Sellafield nuclear power station – but I don’t glow in the dark!
I’m an Evertonian – There weren’t many football teams in the Lakes so I ended up a Toffee and I have watched 25 years of poor football ever since!
I have 3 cats – A little over the top.
I’m nearly 30 – Which is a bit scary!
I’m addicted to gadgets – See my MacBook post.
I’m addicted to Football Manager, the football management sim has wasted many autumn/winter evenings since I was about 13 and every year since.
I cycle to school – Shunning a car and braving the Mancunian weather saves me a fortune and gives me a bit of exercise each day too. (Once in a while the bike actually goes up a mountain too!)

So I’d better pass this on, looking at my Google Reader feed, the next 7 educators who were waiting in my feed and don’t seem to have done this are (scientific I know!):

Sol Lederman: http://wildaboutmath.com/

Angela Meiers: http://www.angelamaiers.com/

Neil Winton: http://nwinton.wordpress.com/

Don Ledingham: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/donsblog/

Richard Byrne: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Mr Higgins: http://www.mrhigginsblog.com/

John Pederson: http://www.ijohnpederson.com/

(EDIT: If you’ve already done this, or hate memes then apologies!!)

Meme: Passion Quilt

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“Blue sky thinking”

Thanks Frank for tagging me to participate in the meme passion quilt. It’s the first time I’ve been ‘tagged’ in one of these things and I appreciate it

The picture I chose is a photo I took at Glastonbury Festival some years ago, I got lucky lying by the Jazz stage with an old digital camera. I chose it as it encapsulates by passion for sharing the bigger picture with my pupils. Something that is increasingly easy to forget to do with the institutional pressures of so many key exam classes this year. So thanks for reminding me of this Frank!

I’ll tag these 5 educators who’s blogs have inspired me: kwhobbes, coolcatteacher, tombarrett, dougbellshaw, jonesieboy

Here are the rules:

1. Think about what you are passionate about teaching your students.
2. Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.
3. Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt” and link back to this blog entry.
4. Include links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.