Our ICT suite started to come together today, we got a phone call yesterday to tell us to expect deliveries.

The classroom assistants did a great clean up

Hugh helped stacking the furniture

Quite a lot of boxes

And by the end of the day the plaster had been done

We are expecting the decorators on Monday and the guys to put the furniture together on Wednesday

For me the icing on the cake arrived just after the plasterers:

I am really looking forward to getting down to work with the suite and the mini suite of 4 mac minis. A few children were working with my iBook today to produce a comic life of two, which have been published on Sandaig Otters, I am hoping to that this sort of activity a lot further as the session progresses.

Image uploaded with AppleScript

Recently I’ve been testing alternative ways to post to the blog with the metaWeBlog API via AppleScript, Flock,Performancing, Ecto and TextMate.
It took me a while to get TextMate working and AppleScript worked for everything but posting images.
I got a ton of help on the pivot forum from hansfn, who was very patient with me, and spent a good while reading docs and googling, but I could not get AppleScript to upload images.
Last night I posted a comment on Tom Smith’s Blog this morning a script arrived in my inbox that worked perfectly.
It is always a great pleasure when this happens, people who you do not know giving up time to help out a stranger.

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Tim Lauer is Moving to Drupal. The setup sounds great:

For example each of our 4th and 5th grade teachers will have a blog which she will use to post assignments and announcements to students. Each 4th and 5th grade student will have a Drupal based blog that will live behind our firewall.

and

While we plan to introduce this to the students as a way to manage their work, we also will begin to introduce the idea that their class blog is a place for them to do other things besides just respond to assignments. We will also enable the images module so that they can use their Drupal blog as a place to organize images associated with their work. Using RSS we will create a master feed of all images and create a Flickr type collection of images that they can share and discuss with their classmates.

Sound just great. I am wondering if Drupal is suitable for hosted sites, how hard it is to setup etc, etc.

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I am just testing an AppleScript from Adam Burt which takes a screenshot of google earth and posts it to a blog via ecto. does lots of tagging and produces metadata too. Designed for blojsom I’ve tweaked the html a bit for pivot.
Details and download of the script from Google Earth Geo-Blog Snapshot – ecto Script plug-in.
I know little about google Earth, but I know there are a few folk out there who might like this.

meta-longitude=-4.322157262071
meta-latitude=55.878416254973
meta-altitude=0
meta-range=156.059623386301
meta-tilt=0.0
meta-heading=5.009656812371E-14
meta-coordinates=-4.322157262071,55.878416254973,0

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