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Using Google Sheets and Google Apps Script to Work with APIs

February 24, 2016 | Posted in Google Apps Script,Google Sheets

One of the coolest things about working with Google Apps Script is the overall versatility of the Google Apps ecosystem. I’ve written pretty extensively about how to use Google Apps Script to do a lot of more business focused things, like send an email with Google Forms submissions, sending an attachment with Google Forms submission, […]

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Debugging Node.js Processes | Error events.js 141

February 17, 2016 | Posted in Development,JavaScript

Debugging Node.js processes on the server can be kind of painful depending on what tools you have available to help you make sense of error messages. After scouring the web, it seems that a lot of people get frustrated by an error that gets thrown at events.js 141, which seems to be a generic socket […]

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How to insert and remove rows and columns in Google Sheets

January 13, 2016 | Posted in Google Drive,Google Sheets

In this Google Sheets training tip, you will learn how to insert and remove rows and columns in a Google Sheet. Sometimes, when you are working with Google Sheets, you will need to shift things around and add or remove rows/columns. Check out the quick video below or read through the written explanation. Step 1: […]

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How to create a Google Calendar event with Google Forms

November 3, 2015 | Posted in Business,Google Apps Script

In this blog post, we’re going to look at how to use Google App Script to create a Google Calendar with a Google Form. This tutorial will build on some of the same code and concepts we’ve been working with in some earlier blog posts, so feel free to check those out: Send a confirmation […]

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Bringin’ the Bling: Developing Visually Appealing and Functional Canvas Pages

April 24, 2015 | Posted in Design,Ed Tech,How to,technology

This is a post to host all of my presentation resources for the presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Group Instructing with Canvas (MAGIC) Conference. To get the most out of this experience, downloading this .zip file of some starter image before we get going: Canvas MAGIC Images   Follow Along with the Presentation Below Bringin’ the […]

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The ABC’s of the Canvas REST API

| Posted in Ed Tech,technology

This is a post to collect all of the presentation resources for my presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Group Instructing with Canvas (MAGIC) Conference. To get the most out of this experience, try installing these two Chrome extensions before we really get started: Postman-REST Client  We will use the Postman REST Client to make all of […]

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How to Use the Google Fonts API in Your Website

March 22, 2015 | Posted in Ed Tech,Google,How to,technology

The Google Fonts API makes it easy to load great fonts into your site for free. Beautiful typography can mean the difference between a good website and a great website. Instead of jumping through hoops to install beautiful fonts in your CSS, Google now provides a free service that lets you include open source fonts […]

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Google Forms Confirmation Email with Attachments

January 30, 2015 | Posted in Ed Tech,Google,How to,Marketing,technology

Google Forms is a great tool to use to make quick and easy sign-up forms, but sometimes you need it to do something else a bit more complex. In this short tutorial we’ll talk about how to extend a basic Google Form script that sends confirmation email to also send attachments. If you don’t know […]

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ALA Conference 2014 Handout

May 22, 2014 | Posted in wisdom

‘The simple, compact, well join’d scheme’: Creating Multimodal Experiences for Students of Early American Literature Using Web-based Resources Jeff Everhart Longwood University Websites as References and Archives The Library of Congress: http://www.loc.gov The Walt Whitman Archive: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/ The William Gilmore Simms Digital Edition: http://library.sc.edu/digital/collections/simms.html Documenting the American South: http://docsouth.unc.edu/support/about/ Emily Dickinson Archive: http://www.edickinson.org/   Websites […]

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The Global Importance of Openness to Education

March 26, 2014 | Posted in Ed Tech,Education,ELL,Google,Innovation,leadership,life,teaching,technology

We hear a lot these days about the word ‘open.’ Projects can be open; resources can be open; even processes that were once shrouded in secrecy can now be called open. Despite the deluge of this buzz word, I would venture to say that many of us haven’t stopped to evaluate what being ‘open’ really […]

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