As of yesterday TED have uploaded 1,903 videos totaling 1,622,120 seconds of playtime which have been viewed 428,117,012 times and received 4,360,903 likes. This post highlights how to work with Google Apps Script advanced services and other Google API documentation View Article
Last year I wrote about how you can use Google Apps Script to integrate with import.io. In this post I look at using authenticated data sources for import.io with Google Apps Script View Article
At the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) one of the core tools we use for membership management is CiviCRM. In this post I show you how we use Google Apps Script to automate reporting and analysis View Article
At ALT we use Google Sheets as an easy way to share and collaborate on draft event timetables. Recent examples are the ALT Annual Conference 2014 and the OER15 timetables. One of the reasons for publishing draft timetables using Google Sheets is we can get a static url for people to download it as PDFs ...continue reading → View Article
My old colleague at Cetis, David Sherlock, posted a nice little ‘Twitter Question/Revision Bot’. This uses a .csv file of questions and multiple choice answers which get randomly tweeted out using a Python script. David designed the project with a Raspberry Pi in mind but also highlights it can be easily run on any Unix ...continue reading → View Article
Later today (2.30pmUTC) I’ll be presenting at #oer15 about Twitter in open education (tune in here). As I wanted to highlight the network effect of Twitter I wanted to engage not just the room, but leave ‘footprints’ as for others to follow. I know people like Alex Couros and Alan Levine have done cool stuff ...continue reading → View Article
Back in 2012 I shared some of the exploratory work I did issuing Mozilla Open Badges with using a combination of Google Apps Script and Google Sites. I revisit this idea with new knowledge of the Mozilla Issuer API View Article
