2014 – Page 3 – By @mhawksey

#GEUG14 Presentation: Google {Learning} Analytics

Presentation given at University of York Google Apps for Education European User Group meeting (GEUG14) exploring how Google Analytics can be used for Learning Analytics

ALT Innovates: A BadgeOS WordPress plugin add-on to host and issue Mozilla Open Badges

ALT’s Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning (ocTEL) is entering it’s final week. As part of this our effort to award digital badges has been well received by participants. One request we received was to turn our site specific digital badges into Open Badges. To achieve this we’ve developed a add-on to the existing BadgeOS plugin which will turn your WordPress powered site into a Open Badges issuer.

Synthesising Google Fusion Tables and Visualization API to allow data exploration and mashups

As part of some recent work with the Open University I explored the use of Google Fusion Tables as a queriable data source to use with Google Charts. This post highlights the result and notes some limitations and opportunities of using Google Fusion Tables as a datasource.

Setup tweaks for using the BadgeOS WordPress plugin in #ocTEL

A repost from the ocTEL course blog outlining the way we setup the BadgeOS plugin for WordPress to issue badges as part of the course. This post follows on from an earlier post, ‘ocTEL and the Open Badges Assertion’, which highlights some progress towards directly issuing Open Badges using BadgeOS … more to follow on this development.

Developing ALT’s open course platform for ocTEL

This was a post I prepared for another site. It got lost in the pending queue so is out of date (you can still register for ocTEL until the end of June), but I thought worth capturing this post here for future reference.

[Event] ALT Scotland SIG – Open Scotland 3rd June, Edinburgh #altc #openscot

Details of ALT Scotland SIG – Open Scotland 3rd June, Edinburgh

Using WordPress to support open courses: Geekout with Alan Levine, Tom Woodward and Boone

A good old fashioned edtech geekout with myself, Alan Levine, Tom Woodward, and latterly joined by Boone talking about the use of WordPress to support open courses

Using Google Apps Script to integrate with import.io

This post illustrates how you can integrate the structured web data scraping service import.io with Google Apps Script.

Learning Analytics in Education and a data dogma?

Extract from a chapter on learning analytics in education as well as a meandering thought in light of inBloom closer on data dogma

Generating a column of series repeating text in Google Sheets

Sometimes it’s useful to generate a column of data based on a series repeating x number of times. Here’s a formula for doing this in Google Sheets