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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” page 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 hand corner of your screen.

To start and activity, you can double-click its icon or you can put your cursor on the icon and click “start”.

Activities are what you do on the XO. There is one special activity called “Journal” which appears under the XO icon 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 or Scratch.

There are Activities which are games: Memorize, 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 in pre-installed with the Sugar environment. More activities can be found and added to your XO from the website: http://sugarlaabe.org/downloads [1]. You can also add activities from a USB drive (thumb drive).