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New PD Site: SuperAdmins

Starting off with this project, I knew it would need a strong admin interface. One of the problems I mentioned initially is that all of the PD trou... Read more

New PD Site: Presenters

sWe’ve had a look at how users work in the new PD site, so let’s take a look at another major player: presenters. The word “presenter” is really lo... Read more

New PD Site: Staff User

This spring and summer, I've taken on a full-blown re-write of our PD registration and management system. Our current system is a collection of cen... Read more

Bees, bees, bees

Several years ago, my wife took a short beekeeping course with her mom. They tried a hive in their backyard a few times, but the colonies never sur... Read more

Handling Paginated API Responses in Google Apps Script

One of my favorite things about Google Apps Script is that I can get information from an API and write it directly to a shared document or spreadsh... Read more

Movement when Motion Is Hard

We're in a situation where staff are overwhelmed. Teachers are feeling under water all the time, trying to make materials to support online learnin... Read more

Sending System Audio to Google Meet

In 2013, I wrote up how to record Google Hangouts in high quality for podcasting or whatever. This post is how to essentially do the same, but for ... Read more

Sending Charts from Google Forms

We're getting ready to launch a digital teaching and learning course for staff that is based on the TPACK framework. A few years ago, we started ou... Read more

Google Sheets, SpreadAPI, and an Extension

This is a revisit to a post I wrote four years ago in which we used a spreadsheet and Google's nifty little hidden JSON data endpoint to serve data... Read more

Three Problems with Online Teaching

We started our school year today. We have a split group of teachers who are fully online and a group who is hybrid, two days in school and three da... Read more

Revisiting My Personal Productivity

This fall, I started to revisit my personal productivity habits. We lost a team member last spring and we won't be replacing that role, which means... Read more

Supporting Hybrid and Online Learning

My district is entering a phase where students are in one of two situations: fully online or a hybrid with two days in person and three days online... Read more

Construction, continued...

It was a busy July, working full time on the house. At the end of the month, we were nearly dried in and have started to shift our focus toward pre... Read more

This Site is Under Construction

Last month, my family broke ground on a new house. Less than a year ago, we were just toying with the idea of building a house, and now we're actua... Read more

Add a Google Meet to Calendar Events with Google Apps Script

My small team relies on automation to make things run. Part of our PD process is a Google Form workflow that kicks off calendar events, document cr... Read more

Get a List of All Students and Missing Work from Canvas

In a Canvas course, you can quickly check the number of missing assignments for single students relatively quickly. You can also message groups of ... Read more

Copy Canvas Enrollments to Another Course

While schools are closed, we've moved much of our long term staff development material into Canvas. We have one long-running course with all staff ... Read more

DocuTube Shutdown, June 2020

tl;dr: The DocuTube addon will be removed from the Marketplace at the end of June, 2020. If you're a programmer and you want to take over ownership... Read more

Updating Canvas Notification Preferences

This is a technical post. Read on for code and commentary. In moving to online, we've tried to streamline all of our communication through Canvas. ... Read more

A Photo API in Python

I started a small project to clean up my personal photo hosting. I'm currently using an app written in PHP, but it's way over my head and does way ... Read more

Quince House

I just finished packing up our first house, to be put on the market tomrorow morning after living here for eight years. As I moved from room to roo... Read more

Performance Tasks in SBG

I was given a good challenge by our secondary curriculum coordinator a couple weeks back. He wanted to know how we get in front of standards-based ... Read more

Lemonade Factory

The LMS isn't perfect, but it's what we have. We've gone through a sea change over the last four years. It started with opening Google Apps for all... Read more

Unit Testing in GAS Part 5: Testing Objects and Arrays

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Mutify - A Simple Ad Blocker

We've started using Spotify more around the house with the kids. We only have the free account, which means we hear ads every three or four songs. ... Read more

Two

This little one turns two today. Read more

Unit Testing in GAS Part 4: Error Handling

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 3: Adding and Testing Functions

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 2: Simple Tests

If you're brand new to unit testing, start with the first post in this series to get caught up. Part 1: QUnit Setup Part 2: Simple Tests Part 3: Ad... Read more

Unit Testing GAS Part 1: QUnit Setup

I'm not good at writing testable code. I'm more of a 'figure it out when it breaks' kind of hobby programmer. The problem with this is that I am co... Read more

Four

Our second daughter turns four today. Read more

Re-writing DocuTube

tl;dr I have a Google Apps Script project getting a major overhaul. If you want to look at the code and contribute, it's on GitHub. A couple years ... Read more

Auto-select form checkbox with querystrings

I maintain a website at school where teachers can register for professional development. They can see all offerings and save sessions to their prof... Read more

The Bennett Family Sing Along

A few times a week, we sing hymns with the kids before bed. I get the guitar out and we practice their favorites. The lyrics are Bible-based truth ... Read more

Mask Text in Keynote on the iPad

Keynote has image masking built in. Masking allows you to more or less shape a picture in a frame. A simple example would be showing a portion of a... Read more

Get in touch

Comments are always open. You can get in touch by sending me an email at brian@ohheybrian.com

New PD Site: SuperAdmins

New PD Site: Presenters

New PD Site: Staff User

Bees, bees, bees

Handling Paginated API Responses in Google Apps Script

Movement when Motion Is Hard

Sending System Audio to Google Meet

Sending Charts from Google Forms

Google Sheets, SpreadAPI, and an Extension

Three Problems with Online Teaching

Revisiting My Personal Productivity

Supporting Hybrid and Online Learning

Construction, continued...

This Site is Under Construction

Add a Google Meet to Calendar Events with Google Apps Script

Get a List of All Students and Missing Work from Canvas

Copy Canvas Enrollments to Another Course

DocuTube Shutdown, June 2020

Updating Canvas Notification Preferences

A Photo API in Python

Quince House

Performance Tasks in SBG

Lemonade Factory

Unit Testing in GAS Part 5: Testing Objects and Arrays

Mutify - A Simple Ad Blocker

Two

Unit Testing in GAS Part 4: Error Handling

Unit Testing GAS Part 3: Adding and Testing Functions

Unit Testing GAS Part 2: Simple Tests

Unit Testing GAS Part 1: QUnit Setup

Four

Re-writing DocuTube

Auto-select form checkbox with querystrings

The Bennett Family Sing Along

Mask Text in Keynote on the iPad

Get in touch

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