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What is an Activity?

Activities are the things you do in Sugar on your XO. Activities are found on your “Home” view in the circle around your “person” icon.

These activities have been selected from all those installed on your laptop. They are called “Favorites”. You can change this list at any time by clicking on the “List” view in the upper right corner of your screen.

To start and activity, you can click its icon or you can hover your pointer on the icon and click the “start” menu item. There is one special activity called the “Journal” which appears on the upper Frame on the home page. The Journal keeps track of everything you do on the XO. It also stores the files you create with your Activity. Some Activities need no instruction or explanation, such as Maze and Speak. There are other Activities that require some learning, such as Turtle Art, Etoys, and Scratch.

There are Activities which are games, such as Memorize and Implode. Some perform basic functions such as writing documents (Write), taking pictures or videos (Record), or browsing the Internet (Browse). Other Activities allow you to create complex images, games, animations and programs : Scratch, Etoys, TurtleArt. You can also make music with Tam Tam and use it in your animation, or story or Memorize game.

A set of Activities is pre-installed with the Sugar environment. More Activities can be found and added to your XO from the Sugar Activity Library, http://activities.sugarlabs.org. You can also add Activities from a USB drive (thumb drive).