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== Welcome! ==
== What is Sugar? ==
<p style="font-size: 1.3em; background: #edfdd7; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #cde7a8">'''Sugar reinvents how computers can be used for education.''' It promotes sharing and collaborative learning and gives children the opportunity to use their laptops on their own terms. Children — and their teachers — have the freedom to reshape, reinvent, and reapply their software, and content. Sugar is based on GNU/Linux, a free and open-source operating system.</p>
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<td>[[Image:home_sharing.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>Sugar facilitates sharing and collaboration:</strong><br />Children can write documents or make music together with ease.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_activities.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>There are no files, folders or applications:</strong><br />What you do is an <em>activity</em> and that includes the application and all your data. You can resume any activity at any time.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_backup.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>You can hardly lose data:</strong><br />Everything is saved and backed up automatically.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_journal.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>You use a journal for accessing data:</strong><br />Its like a diary of stuff that you made.</td>
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<td>[[Image: home_opensource.png]]</td>
<td valign="top"><strong>It's all Open Source Software:</strong><br />There are no strings attached and updates will <em>always</em> be free.</td>
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<blockquote style="color: #3b3c3e; font-size: 1.7em; font-style: italic; text-align: center; background: #f2f2f2; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #d6d6d6">"It's an education project, not a laptop project."</blockquote>
Sugar :
== Activities ==
Sugar applications are called Activities. This is a list of some Activites that are installed by default. Dozens more are available.
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<td>[[Image:activity-journal.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Journal''': Object and activity browser</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-pippy.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Pippy''': Python Programming language/environment</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-web.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Browse''': Web browser based on Mozilla Firefox</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-etoys.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Etoys''': Learning / programming / authoring environment</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-read.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Read''': Book/PDF reader</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-turtleart.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Turtle Art''': Pseudo-Logo graphical programming language</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-write.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Write''': Word processor</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-news.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''News Reader''': News reader</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-calculate.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Calculate''': Basic calculator</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-draw.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Drawing Activity|Paint(Oficina)''': Simple paint activity</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-measure.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Measure''': Oscilloscope and Data Logging</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-record.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Record''': Still, video, and audio capture</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-acousticmeasure.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Acoustic Tape Measure|Distance''': Measure distance between two laptops</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-log.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Log''': An activity version of the Sugar logging tool</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-analyze.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Analyze''': An activity version of the Sugar analyze tool</td>
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<td>[[Image:activity-tamtamjam.png|40px]]<br />[[Image:activity-tamtamedit.png|40px]]<br />[[Image:activity-tamtamsynthlab.png|40px]]<br />[[Image:activity-tamtammini.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''TamTam''': Music composition and synthesis. <br/>Tamtam has four separate activities : TamTam '''Jam''', '''Edit''', '''Synthlab''', and '''Mini'''.</td>
<td>[[Image:activity-terminal.png|40px]]</td>
<td>'''Terminal''': An activity version of the Sugar terminal</td>
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* see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar the Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.
* see [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Category:Sugar the Sugar category] on olpcwiki for more.