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| ===Why Sugar?=== | | ===Why Sugar?=== |
| ==== Sugar comes with hundreds of tools for discovery through exploring, expressing, and sharing ==== | | ==== Sugar comes with hundreds of tools for discovery through exploring, expressing, and sharing ==== |
− | ** Web browsing; reading; chatting; playing movies and music; playing games; word processing; reflecting and assessment (Journal); creating graphics; creating rich media; and programming.
| + | * Web browsing; reading; chatting; playing movies and music; playing games; word processing; reflecting and assessment (Journal); creating graphics; creating rich media; and programming. |
| ====Sugar comes with a built-in collaboration system==== | | ====Sugar comes with a built-in collaboration system==== |
− | ** It features collaboration with or without Internet access.
| + | * It features collaboration with or without Internet access. |
− | ** Benefits of Sugar include peer-to-peer learning; always-on support; and single-click sharing.
| + | * Benefits of Sugar include peer-to-peer learning; always-on support; and single-click sharing. |
| ==== Sugar comes with built-in tools for reflection ==== | | ==== Sugar comes with built-in tools for reflection ==== |
− | ** Features include an auto-generated journal (all your work is auto-saved and can be annotated and tagged).
| + | * Features include an auto-generated journal (all your work is auto-saved and can be annotated and tagged). |
− | ** Benefits of the Sugar Journal are that it serves as a portfolio assessment tool, a place of reflection, and a forum for discussion between children, their parents, and their teachers.
| + | * Benefits of the Sugar Journal are that it serves as a portfolio assessment tool, a place of reflection, and a forum for discussion between children, their parents, and their teachers. |
| ====The Sugar learning platform is discoverable==== | | ====The Sugar learning platform is discoverable==== |
− | ** It features a scalable interaction model that is iconic and discoverable through hover menus:
| + | * It features a scalable interaction model that is iconic and discoverable through hover menus: |
− | ** Benefits include that you don't need to learn everything at once—you can progress, using simple means to reach to complex ends: no upper bound on where you can reach.
| + | * Benefits include that you don't need to learn everything at once—you can progress, using simple means to reach to complex ends: no upper bound on where you can reach. |
| ====Sugar is designed for local appropriation==== | | ====Sugar is designed for local appropriation==== |
− | ** It features free and open-source software, a view-source mechanism, and built-in tools for making changes and improvements.
| + | * It features free and open-source software, a view-source mechanism, and built-in tools for making changes and improvements. |
− | ** Benefits include a growing global community of support;
| + | * Benefits include a growing global community of support; |
| ====Sugar puts an emphasis on learning through doing and debugging==== | | ====Sugar puts an emphasis on learning through doing and debugging==== |
− | ** Benefits include a more engaged learner able to tackle authentic problems.
| + | * Benefits include a more engaged learner able to tackle authentic problems. |
| * Sugar is available in a wide variety of forms: | | * Sugar is available in a wide variety of forms: |
| ** Getting Sugar for Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian. | | ** Getting Sugar for Fedora, Ubuntu, or Debian. |
− | ** Run Sugar in an emulator: QEMU or VMWare. | + | ** Run Sugar in an emulator: [[VirtualBox]], [[QEMU]], or [[VMware]]. |
− | VMworkstation 6.5.2 can make emmulation files in Ubuntu 8.04
| + | ** Run Sugar from a LiveCD or Live USB: [[:Category:Live USB]] |
− | can run files with free VMPlayer, available on line
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− | distribute them with DVD or 4 Gib SD or USB
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− | [satellit 05/04/2009]
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− | ** Run Sugar from a LiveCD or Live USB. | |
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| ===Roadblocks=== | | ===Roadblocks=== |