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This is a sampling of Activities that do not have their own pages in this guide. They, and many more, are available for download as .xo bundles from the Sugar Labs Activities server, also known as aslo. Aslo shows Activities by category, and sorts them by rating, popularity (number of downloads, data, or name.

• Typing Turtle, a multilingual animated touch typing trainer.

• Etoys, Media authoring environment with graphical scripting for children of all ages. Aren't we all children?

• I know America game about American geography. It has 30 country maps of each and 3 general maps.

• Speak, a talking face for Sugar. Anything you type will be spoken aloud using the speech synthesizer, espeak. You can "speech" chat with other users and ask any question.

• Physics simulator

• TamTam Synth Lab for designing digital musical instruments. Music composition and synthesis

• Spirolaterals, the first of Peter the Magician's Puzzle Activities. Can be regarded as a pre-turtle exploration. A simple pattern has to be created with only 5 numbers. Pattern complexity increases with success.

• Read ETexts, for reading all the free e-texts from Project Gutenberg on your XO, or use Text to Speech to have them read to you. The built in offline catalog search lets you browse through and download over 24,000 great titles!

• Browse, Web browser

• GCompris Maze 3D

• Boxes, usually called "Dots & Boxes", the game from our childhood.

• FoodForce2, a learning platform which teaches children through games with interactive stories. It helps them collaborate and learn by developing a village.

• Typing Turtle, a multilingual animated touch typing trainer.

• Poll, create a poll, collect votes and analyze community opinions

• Read ETexts lets you read all the free e-texts from Project Gutenberg on your XO, or use Text to Speech to have them read to you. The built in offline catalog search lets you browse through and download over 24,000 great titles!

• Idle, a python programming shell

• Labyrinth, a lightweight mind-mapping activity that supports text, images, and simple drawings.

• OOo4Kids, Office suite for the 7-12, to create texts, presentations, spreadsheets and drawings, fully OpenOffice.org and MS Office compatible.

• Finance, a simple financial planning activity. It can be integrated into classroom assignments, or else used to track finances for a school club. It might also be useful for students who wish to help their parents with home finances.

• Edit, simple collaborative plain-text editor

• Write, Word processor

• Calendar, tasks list, and tasks reminder. Manage tasks by category and priority.

• XO Help, documentation and Help for the XO

• View Slides, make slide show of a series of sequentially named image files. This can be used for reading scanned in books like picture books, comic books, magazine articles, photos, etc.

• Info Slicer, a tool to enable teachers to quickly and easily select web-based content to edit, package, and distribute as teaching materials.

• I Can Read, a simple reader: it combines letters, pictures, and sounds. It also has mechanism for recording the student's voice.

• IRC, chat with other Sugar/OLPC users and enthusiasts on the Internet via Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

• GoGo, GoGo-Board interface for creating on-board Logo programs, direct sensor monitoring & motor control, data capture and much more!

• Turtle Confusion presents 40 shape challenges to the learner that must be completed using basic Logo-blocks. The challenges as based on Barry Newell's 1988 book, Turtle Confusion: Logo Puzzles and Riddles.

• SimCom, a Simple Computer that really works. Pupils can see what really goes on behind the scenes in a real computer. The picture shows a program running and printing the prime numbers.

• Sugar Commander, a utility for working with the Journal. You can easily add files as Journal entries, view and update title, description, and tags for entries and delete entries you no longer need.

• Develop, write programs in Python.

• SocialCalcActivity, spreadsheet

• Dr. Geo, an interactive geometry activity.

• Log, activity for inspecting log files.

• Turtle Machine, another "pre-turtle" activity. This one I see as following on from "Spirolaterals". Students can specify the number of repeats and the angle. Once a polygon is created, it becomes available for more complex pattern creation.

• GeoGebra 4, dynamic Mathematics for Everyone

• TetrisMat, eliminates cells in this tetris-like falling block game by performing simple math operations

• Tuxmath, an arcade game that helps people practice their math facts.

• Rectangles, a puzzle game. The grid is broken up into coloured rectangles but, at the start, only ONE square from each rectangle shows its colour. This square also shows the area (ie the number of squares) of the rectangle. The player must find all the rectangles.

• GCompris Paratrooper, parachutist

• GCompris Redraw Symmetrical, mirror the given item

• Deducto, a learning activity aimed towards improving childrens’ skills to deducing logic through pattern recognition.

• GCompris Memory Minus Tux, subtraction memory game against Tux

• Clock, a simple Activity to learn how to read and tell the time.

• Visual Match, a pattern-matching game. The object of the game is to find sets of three cards where each attribute—color, shape, number of elements, and shading—either match on all three cards or are different on all three cards.

• Conozc, images of a ruler, cm and mm grids, and a cm checker board, all at correct sizes.

• Geoquiz, a geography guessing game.

• Castle, a game of discovery and strategy inspired by the Adventure games of the 70s.

• Appel Haken, a region-coloring puzzle. You're looking at a map of areas with straight-line borders. Your task is to colour in the map so that no two bordering countries have the same colour.

• Jukebox, a media player to play different kinds of audio and video files.

• Sonata Media Player, a media player to play different kinds of audio and video files.

• FileMix, creative Audio File Player/Mixer/Processor Utilities for Children. Options for MIDI controller (preferably) or ASCII keyboard. User soundfiles can be loaded via the Journal
• ChimePlay, Chime and Bell Player Utilities for Children. These are custom versions of SAMPLEPLAY for windchime and bell sets.Two 6-chime sets are included.

• Mirage I.V., image viewer

• Radio, a web radio / mp3 player.

• FileMixAuto, Automated Audio File Looper/Mixer/Processor for Children. (FileMixAuto is a random, preset version of FileMix.) Up to 4 user soundfiles can be loaded via the Journal

• Portfolio, a simple tool for generating a slide show from Journal entries that have been starred.

• Screencast, a video screen capture utility. It is based on Recordmydesktop by John Varouhakis. It captures the screen to a video file which is in Ogg-Theora-Vorbis file format.

• SamplePlay, Creative Audio Sample Player Utilities for Children. Options for MIDI controller (preferably) or ASCII keyboard. User samples and background loop can be loaded via the Journal (Sugar >= 0.84 only).

• Pukllanapac, a sliding puzzle game

• Mancala, a simple but deep game, one version of a family popular throughout much of Africa under many other names.

• Implode, a "falling block" logic game. The object of the game is to remove all the blocks, by removing blocks in groups of three or more.