Collaborative activities

Chat

1. From XO-1, Home view (Upper left button, black circle with one dot), click on the taskbar icon that looks like a text bubble, Chat.
2. Click on the pull down box labeled 'Share with:' and choose 'My Neighborhood'.
3. From XO-2, Neighborhood mesh view (Upper left button, black circle with 8 dots), you should see the chat bubble in the colors of XO-1. Click on it.
4. Both laptops should be able to see the other XO figure in their Activity view (this comes up by default, but you can also force the activity view with the upper left button, black circle with a white square).
5. Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen and start chatting!

Some Notes:

• If the laptops are collaborating without any access to a school server or Access Point, this will work without any other settings.
• If the laptops are collaborating within the access of the same school server, this will also work without any other settings.
• If the laptops are collaborating across the internet to different towns, countries or continents, then both laptops have to have a common server setting for collaboration. OLPC provides a server called 'jabber.laptop.org'.