Apps I love: Wunderlist

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I only discovered this app a couple of months ago, shortly before I went on holiday, so I haven’t utilised it to its full potential yet. However, I have a feeling it will become a central part of my digital life, because it is so useful.

It is essentially just an online to-do list, which can run on desktop, tablet and mobile. You can categorise your lists in whatever way you want and add items to lists from any device. There’s also a facility by which you can forward emails from your inbox to generate new ‘to-do’ items.The app has a clean, simple interface which makes it really easy to use.

 

Click on the title above to go to the Wunderlist website, or download the app at the Google Play store or iTunes store.

Been really enjoying Ben Howard’s album lately. Especially this track.

Deadline Day

Transfer deadline day usually brings a flurry of activity in the market at QPR. Who’s going to end up a QPR player by 11.00 tonight?  Benoit Assou-Ekotto? Chris Baird? Jermain Defoe? Who’ll have left the club? Joey Barton? Julio Cesar?

Well none of us will know for sure until the deadline is passed but no doubt we’ll be glued to Sky Sports News this evening following the latest developments with Jim White.

It’s sad isn’t it!

Constructionarium 2013

Construction students from the University of westminster getting real on-site experience at Constructionarium in Norfolk. Students spent a week on site building scaled down versions of real structures.

My son, the football fan

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I can really relate to this lovely article from the Guardian last week. It describes the writer’s joy at taking his son to football matches. It’s particularly pertinent for me because it’s about QPR. I love the line where he admits that he has never told his son that “supporting a mediocre football team provides a perfect preparation for real life: long periods of alternating boredom and misery, from which you pluck what beads of sensation you can, punctuated by occasional and almost unimaginable elation”

That just about hits the nail on the head.

This was the presentation I gave at the University of Westminster’s annual Learning & Teaching Symposium on 4th July 2013.

I am the team leader for the Blended Learning & teaching theme of the University’s Learning Futures project, and the presentation summarises progress on the project to date.

My new blog

Well - here goes.

On two previous occasions in the last few years I’ve tried to get a blog going but have never managed to sustain it. I think I was trying to make the content too formal and consequently I never felt that I had anything significant enough to contribute.

This time I’m having a go with Tumblr, which seems to be much more laid back and encourages short-format uploads, whether they be text, images or links.

Hopefully it will be third time lucky.