squeakland April 2011

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Re: [squeakland] Tools to Export Images from Etoys (eventually directly to a Blog Post)
by kharness＠illinois.edu 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Steve, This is a great tool! Thanks very much. The shared flap version works well and I have images of a six page book with one click . . . very useful. My computer is a Toshiba running Windows 7 Home Version. In one of my tries I got an abandon message which I attached. Regards, Kathleen ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 17:32:27 -0400 >From: Steve Thomas <sthomas1(a)gosargon.com> >Subject: [squeakland] Tools to Export Images from Etoys (eventually directly to a Blog Post) >To: squeakland Squeakland <squeakland(a)squeakland.org> > > So, with some squeak help from Bert, I created a > tool (in QuickGuide version and Flap version) you > can use to export image(s) from your project. Here > is the Blog Post and the video. > For a really cool way to view the blog (and I hope > eventually to view Etoys Projects) check out this > view. Click on the Date, Label, and Author boxes > at the top and I think you will get the idea. So > my idea is that when kids "post" their Etoys > projects they can post a blog entry (we have a > "Squeakland" Blog) and it not only posts the project > (.pr file) to the squeakland Web Server, but also > gives them a draft Blog post they can edit which has > image(s) from the Blog and selected Text they can > enter in Etoys. First step is to be able to post to > Blogger from Etoys (then facebook, ....). > So the CHALLENGES TO THE COMMUNITY - help me make > this happen, here is what I think we need: > 1. squeak code to support using the Google Data API > for Blogger and Picasa > 2. Help incorporating that squeak code into Etoys > Projects so we can publish directly to Blogger > and Picasa > 3. Brain storming on how to design this properly > Some things I believe we should support: > 1. Ability to post to my Blog or my Blog and the > Squeakland site > 2. We need a way to aggregate all the Blog posts > 1. one idea is to modify launcher to include > some google analytics so we can find and > incorporate people's public posts in one > spot and select certain public posts to > "feature". > 2. we may also want to put the embedded Etoy in > an iframe (this would also make > incorporating into OERGlue and similar > tools to come (a good idea breads copiers). > 3. We need a way classes and Schools can have their > own "private spaces" and also share select > projects publicly. > Note: The name on Books may not work, I found a bug, > then fixed it, but the fix version is not yet > showing up on the squeakland site. It will still > save all the pages of the book, but it will use the > name "Book" all the time (or whatever is the > ExternalName for your Book object). > Stephen > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg > <bert(a)freudenbergs.de> wrote: > > On 01.04.2011, at 08:52, Steve Thomas wrote: > > > How can I (easily, a script would be fine ;) > export an image of each page in a book in Etoys? > (ideally with the image names being the > projectName<Number of page>) > > Put this in a textual script for the book: > > self costume pages withIndexDo: [:page :i | > PNGReadWriter putForm: page imageForm onFileNamed: > Project current name , i asString , '.png'] > > Some requests are easy to satisfy ;) > > I want to try using this to create flikr stream > of lessons and to post in blog posts. > > Even this could be automated. But it's not going > to be a one-liner. > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > squeakland mailing list > squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >________________ >_______________________________________________ >squeakland mailing list >squeakland(a)squeakland.org >http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland

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Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville
by Steve Thomas 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1(a)gosargon.com> wrote: > Caroline, > > Your students asked: > > Etoys questions include: > > > 1. How do we make a mouth that moves? > > When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the > second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing Ball Animation" > basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different > positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to > animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each > one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections > category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the > Mouth graphic to the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" To get the > "Holder's player at cursor graphic" tile you need to click on the > Sorry, I didn't finish the previous sentence (plus there is a simpler method, from the Mouth's viewer, in the graphics category is a scripting tile "mouth | looks like | dot" drag that onto the world to create script, the from the Holder's viewer category "collections" drag the "Holder's | player at cursor" tile on top of the "dot" in the "mouth | looks like | dot" scripting tile. The scripting tile will then look like "mouth | looks like | Holder's player at cursor". I have been playing with Etoys for a long time and this is the first time I noticed this method of setting a player's costume. Learn something new everyday ;) Stephen Etoys Minutes and more info at http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/

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Re: [squeakland] [IAEP] First day of Etoys class in Somerville
by Steve Thomas 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Caroline, Your students asked: Etoys questions include: 1. How do we make a mouth that moves? When you first open Etoys click on the "Gallery of Projects" then in the second row, first item from the left is a "Bouncing Ball Animation" basically it behaves like flip animation (where you draw the different positions on the edge of each piece of paper and flip through the pages to animate). Have the kids make different drawings of the mouth and place each one in a Holder. Then open the Holder's viewer go to the collections category and you can iterate through the items in the Holder and set the Mouth graphic to the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" To get the "Holder's player at cursor graphic" tile you need to click on the - How do you control the placement of a speech/thought bubble. One girl made a very large heart with a face and the speech bubble appeared right at the top, it would look much better if it were over on the side and closer to the mouth. But I don’t see how to control how it is positioned. Unfortunately you can not control the placement. What you could do is grab an image of the speech bubble and move the grabbed image to a different spot. - How do you make moving eyes (from the object catalog)part of an object so when you move the object with a script the eyes move too? If you place the eyes on top of the object you want to embed them in, then get the halo for the eye and click on the menu icon (top row, second from left), then select "embed" and choose the name of the object you want to embed them in. OR get the Halo of the item to which you want to add eyes then from the menu icon enure "accept drops" is checked. Now anything you place on that object will be embedded in it. NOTE: you may want to turn off "accept drops" once done, also if you move an object (using the move icon, instead of the pick up icon from the Halo, it will not embed). - How do I control when a speech bubble appears and disappears. I seemed to be able to get it to appear fairly easily with the various options in the script but it then seemed to disappear again immediately. Hmmm, can you share an actual project when this happens? Usually to get a speech bubble to disappear I use the "stop saying or thinking" tile. not sure why it would disappear otherwise. I'll try and post an Etoys minute some time tomorrow night to show how these things can be done. Stephen On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Caroline Meeks <caroline(a)solutiongrove.com>wrote: > Report is here: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z2wFRkZPOxKpREA6sV1-XVdxjm7bC9jP50KWkdL… > > We are working in a computer lab in a housing project in Somerville run by > the Haitain Coalition of Somerville. We are using etoys to start with to > help support collaboration between Waveplace and the Somerville Haitian > Coalition. The students did very impressive work for the first day. > > We are using E-toys on a USB stick that works on both PC and Linux and > hopefully mac in a day or two. The goal is to have it > also automatically backup to dropbox. This currently works on XP, hopefully > ubuntu will be next. > > We could use help from E-toys users. I have a bunch of how do I do this in > E-toys questions in the report. > > We could use help in writing the backup script for ubuntu. > > Check out the report. It has nice screen shots. :) > > Thanks, > Caroline > > -- > Caroline Meeks > Solution Grove > Caroline(a)SolutionGrove.com > > 617-500-3488 - Office > 505-213-3268 - Fax > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP(a)lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >

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Tools to Export Images from Etoys (eventually directly to a Blog Post)
by Steve Thomas 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

So, with some squeak help from Bert, I created a tool (in QuickGuide version and Flap version) you can use to export image(s) from your project. Here is the Blog Post<http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/2011/04/export-images-from-your-etoys-p…>and the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwxgr2KI1QU>. For a really cool way to view the blog (and I hope eventually to view Etoys Projects) check out this view<http://mrstevesscience.blogspot.com/view/flipcard>. Click on the Date, Label, and Author boxes at the top and I think you will get the idea. So my idea is that when kids "post" their Etoys projects they can post a blog entry (we have a "Squeakland" Blog) and it not only posts the project (.pr file) to the squeakland Web Server, but also gives them a draft Blog post they can edit which has image(s) from the Blog and selected Text they can enter in Etoys. First step is to be able to post to Blogger from Etoys (then facebook, ....). So the *CHALLENGES TO THE COMMUNITY* - help me make this happen, here is what I think we need: 1. squeak code to support using the Google Data API for Blogger and Picasa 2. Help incorporating that squeak code into Etoys Projects so we can publish directly to Blogger and Picasa 3. Brain storming on how to design this properly Some things I believe we should support: 1. Ability to post to my Blog or my Blog and the Squeakland site 2. We need a way to aggregate all the Blog posts 1. one idea is to modify launcher to include some google analytics so we can find and incorporate people's public posts in one spot and select certain public posts to "feature". 2. we may also want to put the embedded Etoy in an iframe (this would also make incorporating into OERGlue and similar tools to come (a good idea breads copiers). 3. We need a way classes and Schools can have their own "private spaces" and also share select projects publicly. Note: The name on Books may not work, I found a bug, then fixed it, but the fix version is not yet showing up on the squeakland site. It will still save all the pages of the book, but it will use the name "Book" all the time (or whatever is the ExternalName for your Book object). Stephen On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert(a)freudenbergs.de>wrote: > On 01.04.2011, at 08:52, Steve Thomas wrote: > > > How can I (easily, a script would be fine ;) export an image of each page > in a book in Etoys? (ideally with the image names being the > projectName<Number of page>) > > Put this in a textual script for the book: > > self costume pages withIndexDo: [:page :i | PNGReadWriter putForm: page > imageForm onFileNamed: Project current name , i asString , '.png'] > > Some requests are easy to satisfy ;) > > > I want to try using this to create flikr stream of lessons and to post in > blog posts. > > > Even this could be automated. But it's not going to be a one-liner. > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > squeakland mailing list > squeakland(a)squeakland.org > http://lists.squeakland.org/mailman/listinfo/squeakland >

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Desarrollo Cultural ¿Cómo y dónde se consigue? / Cultural Development ¿Where and how to get it?
by Carlos Rabassa 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

S048 - Desarrollo Cultural: Qué es y como se alcanza https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Umdu6XtZ1PwNzE3wDI8zHjcXavkGgSTEYS… E048 - Cultural Development: What is it? How to reach it. https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1K5svAWw1rQssCmOm656LuyUwMTZKn2wJob… Carlos Rabassa Voluntario Red de Apoyo al Plan Ceibal Montevideo, Uruguay

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Is there a way to export images of each page in a Book?
by Steve Thomas 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

How can I (easily, a script would be fine ;) export an image of each page in a book in Etoys? (ideally with the image names being the projectName<Number of page>) I want to try using this to create flikr stream of lessons and to post in blog posts. Thanks, Stephen

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