--- title: "My Homework" date: 2013-12-25 url: https://learningischange.com/2013/12/25/my-homework/ author: Ben Wilkoff categories: ["Blog"] tags: [] --- # My Homework [Jeremy Inscho](http://inschoinschool.wordpress.com/2013/12/24/sunshine-blog-meme-homework/) tagged me in this blog meme, and seeing as how my kiddos woke up at 4:00 to see if Santa came, I’m up anyway (Spoiler alert: he did). So, thank you Jeremy, and here goes. ### 11 facts: - I am a sucker for Beta products. (Just slap a beta sticker on something, and I will gravitate toward it like a moth to the flame.) - I keep over 30 tabs open on my browser at all times (the most I ever had open at one time was 197. No, my computer wasn’t functioning very well at that point). - I have killed both our front and back lawns (they are really small, but still) multiple times. - I haven’t read a novel in over a year (I used to teach English to 7th and 8th graders, so I find this one super surprising). - I met my wife because I heard her asking about vegetarian options in the cafeteria in college. After a while, I went up to her table and said, “I notice you aren’t partaking in the meat consumption. I think that’s really cool.” - Neither of us are vegetarians anymore. - I have 54 days worth of music in iTunes. - I knew I wanted to teach from the time I was in 8th grade. - I wrote my name in the Autoexec.bat file on our home computer when I was 6. Our computer didn’t work for a week before my father could figure out what I did. ([If you don’t know what an autoexec.bat file is, click here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT).) - I will be a father of three in February. I give it a 22% chance that the baby will listen to the doctors and come on his/her valentine’s day due date. - I got a 4.7 percent in Spanish in middle school. (Yes, I did try to get a score that low.) ### 11 Questions from Jeremy: - **What was your favorite class in university?** Any English course. I majored in it, and I could have taken English courses forever if they would have let me. - **If you could only read one blogger next year, who would it be? **It would be a vlogger instead of a blogger (you know, because… YouTube), and it would be [The Vlog Brothers](http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers). They consistently make me happy with their thinking and learning together through massive collaboration. - **If you could have your choice of career changes tomorrow, what would you choose? **Engineer. - **What is your favorite way to relax? **iPhone related reading. - **How do you burn off energy when needed? **Walking. - **Who is your favorite author and book/series? **Favorite author is John Green. Favorite Book is Perks of Being a Wallflower. Favorite series is Harry Potter. - **Introvert or extrovert? Both.** - **Mac, PC, or other? **Mac, but only because it is objectively better. - **Which is your favorite social media? **At the moment, Google+. - **Who is the most influential member of your PLN? **[Kevin Croghan](https://twitter.com/mrcroghan). We see each other in real life, but he has pushed my thinking more recently than anyone else. - **Do you have any quirky habits? **Yes. ### 11 Bloggers to Tag: Seeing as how I just got together a list of 38 Colorado Edubloggers for another project I’m working on, I think I’ll probably choose from there: - [http://mrsmullerlearninglogedtech.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mrsmullerlearninglogedtech.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_8NncDG8DQIjO5qEJ7BOuOJOQ7MA) – Rebecca Muller - [http://edtechlove.wordpress.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://edtechlove.wordpress.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-cmbUFq6aa24j2SJL3ZNaMtuEeYg) – Pamela Lewis - [http://avenue4learning.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://avenue4learning.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_6FcNW0ZpByT6uyR1yACJMUO39bw) – Michelle Baldwin - [http://jayveanccsd.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://jayveanccsd.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy296kdoBrEG-KuCkkBRkPhg76K--pQ) – Jay Vean - [http://toniobarton.wordpress.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://toniobarton.wordpress.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-llfKZaCISXRCPJtQuoxpa2hBZkg) – Toni Olivieri-Barton - [http://teachertechness.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://teachertechness.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-pM9s1BtBGeNy8wKeo_N5j9ZofGA) – Deanna Duray - [http://teachtechpsd.wordpress.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://teachtechpsd.wordpress.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28Yxp9nnRNpfrBB2gJ4zhDPrt-MCA) – Monique Flickinger - [http://www.eastdragonden.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.eastdragonden.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2-8H-hoZZn40SdyRKLkYsCAUIGjtA) – Chris Moore - [http://msmslearningcommunity.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://msmslearningcommunity.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy28JpoRHrEWPuqKYCaMoFdkH2ea3TA) – Lisette Casey - [http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy29gLcgjPpEy5k0E0ikbR4hYSF2VBw) – Nancy White - [http://mwacker.blogspot.com/](https://www.google.com/url?q=http://mwacker.blogspot.com/&usd=2&usg=ALhdy2_lt6YYgXT4CAUXmqRtqb6Scl5Xxw) – Michael Wacker ### 11 Questions for these Bloggers: - Where do you go when you want to think? - What is your writing ritual? - What is the best thing that you can cook? - When did you know you wanted to be an educator? - How do you learn best? - What is the most amazing thing you ever saw a kid do (your child or someone else’s)? - What is the one thing you want to do most before you shuffle off this mortal coil? - What do you think of [Google Glass](http://www.google.com/glass/start/)? - What is the best piece of art you ever purchased? - What would the tagline for a movie about your life be? - What do you do when there is a jar that you just can’t open?