Year: 2019

Virtual Teams: Applying order to chaos

If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or find out more about ALT, the organisation we work for as senior staff. We really appreciate comments and feedback and welcome questions or suggestions for future posts. This time we’re talking about team culture, upgrading workflows, the ISO9001 Standard, the […]

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Google Apps Script Patterns: Writing custom formulas/functions and handling single and range inputs

Custom functions have been in Google Apps Script since it’s public launch in 2009. These let you extend Google Sheets function list allowing you to create and share your own spreadsheet formula. The official Google Developer docs for Custom Functions are very comprehensive and in this post I just want to highlight one pattern for detecting and handling user inputs.

Virtual Teams: Different voices, shared professional practice #PressEdConf19

We are excited to be joining #PressEdConf19 for a session that explores a conversational post format can be used to support reflective practice. We share tips from an ongoing year long project discussing the move to a distributed team and discuss the pros/cons of openness and share ideas to try yourself. The idea for the […]

G Suite, Apps Script and App Maker posts from Google Next ’19

I was unfortunately unable to attend Google Cloud Next ‘19 this year because of other work commitments. Attending last year was a great opportunity to both hear and discover what was going on in the world of G Suite, Apps Script and App Maker. Fortunately my fellow Experts have been busy sharing their discoveries so […]

#OpenBlog19 – Dag nabit, I wish there was a tool that… (which is GDPR compliant)

David Hopkins has come up with an interesting initiative for a ‘pay it forward‘ blogging/writing challenge: The premise is simple … once nominated you will be presented with a title or theme with which you can write about. You can write this on whatever medium you like or prefer to use (blog, LinkedIn, Medium, etc.), […]

Virtual Teams: Things that don’t look broken still need fixing

Hello and welcome to this month’s post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or […]

#Domains19 Minority Report Part 1: Face it, Gif it

In short how to personalize animated gifs by generating them in the browser

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An introduction to building Google Hangouts Chat bots with Google Apps Script

This post is designed to give an overview of Google Hangouts Chat bot development with Google Apps Script.

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#ThinkUHI #BalanceforBetter look at enablers/drivers for the use of Learning Technology (#femedtech)

Today I’m joining Maren Deepwell in talking at the University of the Highland and Islands (UHI) for their #BalanceforBetter event organised as part of International Womens Day. As part of our talk I was asked to speak about equality as a challenge for Learning Technology professionals. As part if this I thought I would revisit […]

Virtual Teams: Special #femedtech podcast edition – Promoting equality in a distributed organisation

Hello and welcome to this month’s post on leading a virtual team. In this post (cross-posted here) the two of us, that is Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey) and Maren Deepwell (@marendeepwell), continue our series of openly sharing our approach to leadership. If you are new here, you can catch up on earlier posts and podcasts or […]

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