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Identity crisis: Using the YouTube Data API with Google Apps Script and Scheduling Live Broadcasts from Google Sheets

Details of how you can use a custom YouTube Data API library to interact with any YouTube account even if it’s owned by a Google+ page

My Google Apps Script app isn’t verified: Understanding why and how to fix

On July 18, 2017 Google announced new security protections to reduce risk from unverified apps. This announcement came in response to continued work to prevent phishing attacks that have used Google Apps Script. As part of this newly created Apps Script projects in certain circumstances will present the user a “app isn’t verified” screen. The […]

Sidebar Video Chat: A WebRTC video experiment in Google Apps Script as an add-on for Google Docs, Sheets and Forms

tl;dr my failed attempt to get production level video web chat into Google Doc, Sheets, Forms sidebar as an Add-on (possible with WebRTC but not without setup/running costs) Back in 2010 I predicted we’d see a lot more real-time web applications in education highlighting a number of web services that had strong real-time collaborative features. […]

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Cloud Functions for Firebase in Google Apps Script

This tutorial was developed by Riël Notermans and Martin Hawksey GDEs for Google Apps Script. This tutorial is based on a supporting video featuring Riël going through and explaining each of these steps. Google Apps Script is a powerful tool to integrate with Google products and third party services. As Apps Script is a free […]

Slight change of plan … taking some research leave to revisit TAGS

In 2010 I spotted an exchange of tweets between Martin Weller, Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst discussing the capture of event hashtags on Twitter: This exchange got me thinking about how Google Sheets could be used to automatically archive Twitter search terms. A couple days later I published a solution for Using Google Spreadsheet to […]

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Making the complex less complicated: An introduction to social network analysis

When the Irish Learning Technology Association’s (ILTA) call for proposals came out earlier in the year around the theme of ‘TEL in an Age of Supercomplexity- Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies‘ I immediately wanted to submit a proposal around making the complex less complicated using network analysis. The seed for this proposal dates from 2012 when […]

[Repost] Where are you?

This post originally appeared in the ocTEL Course Blog on 15th May 2014 – Where are you? There seems to be a natural human instinct to try and understand our location. It perhaps stems from our origins as hunter gatherers where at the end of the day  we need to get back to somewhere safe. Understanding […]

A conversation about chart wizards between @mhawksey @psychemedia and @everythingabili (from 2015)

Is there a site that steps you through making custom google charts from published Google Sheet data? #ddj @psychemedia — Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) April 22, 2015 @mhawksey no idea – i try not to use google app tools wherever possible 😉 — Tony Hirst (@psychemedia) April 22, 2015 @mhawksey Erm… thinks – what do you […]

Using the Google Apps Script Execution API in Chrome Extensions

Recently I was asked to contribute to a Chrome Extension. As part of this project we wanted to send data from the extension into a Google Sheet. There are a number of ways you could do this including just using the Google Sheets API but the way I decided to go was to use Google […]

Behind the scenes at #oer17- Streaming to YouTube with Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio

I’m still processing #OER17: The Politics of Open, not for a single session but as the collective experience and there is a growing list of blog posts published as a result of this event to digest. This post is slightly different from those as I thought it would be useful to capture the continued evolution […]

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