#movemeon - making sure I remember

I am absolutely brilliant at forgetting things. I specialise in it. As a child I had a fantastic memory, but I suspect that these days I simply deal with far too much information to hold it all in my head. Consequently I make a lot of lists!

Recently Doug Belshaw set the ball rolling for a collaborative effort by educators to share hints and tips using Twitter and the #movemeon hashtag. The result is an amazing collection of ideas: some familiar, some new. There were lots of ideas that made me think,  ‘I’ve got to try that’, or ‘I used to do that – why did I stop?’

But as I said, I forget stuff – and just because something is a great idea, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it will stick in my cluttered memory. So I’ve created some reminders, in the form of a set of header images which appear here and on my planner.  (Of course, if you’re reading this on a feed you won’t have seen the header image, in which case you might like to click through and take a look.)

The header images combine Chris Spooner’s bird graphics with a selection of tweets from the #movemeon collaboration. So far there are 10 (and counting) great ideas that I’ll see on a regular basis. Let’s see how many of them I put into action.

If you would like copies of these images, feel free to help yourself:

Set of 10 in gif format [zipped folder]
The same set of 10 in png format [zipped folder] – larger files, but more easily edited