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[[Image:InfoSlicer.png|55px]] ''InfoSlicer is an open source tool to enable teachers to quickly and easily select web-based content to edit, package, and distribute as teaching materials.''
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==InfoSlicer: an overview==
''InfoSlicer is an open source tool to enable teachers to quickly and easily select web-based content to edit, package, and distribute as teaching materials.''
==Info Slicer: an overview==
InfoSlicer is a tool for aggregating content off of the Internet, rearranging and creating new content, and then publishing this content. The basic element of InfoSlicer is an article. This can correspond to anything: a page from Wikipedia; a news article; or a story downloaded from the WWW. Any content which can be displayed online could be represented as an article.
InfoSlicer is a tool for aggregating content off of the Internet, rearranging and creating new content, and then publishing this content. The basic element of InfoSlicer is an article. This can correspond to anything: a page from Wikipedia; a news article; or a story downloaded from the WWW. Any content which can be displayed online could be represented as an article.
The Sugar interface is the GUI originally designed for the One-Laptop-per-Child XO-1 laptop. Sugar is bundled with most major GNU/Linux distributions and hence it is possible to run Sugar on almost any computer. Sugar has a very distinct look and feel, and some specific interaction style guidelines. When the user is running the Sugar environment, publishing creates an entry in the sugar Journal, and adds a “Book” to the Browser application.
The Sugar interface is the GUI originally designed for the One-Laptop-per-Child XO-1 laptop. Sugar is bundled with most major GNU/Linux distributions and hence it is possible to run Sugar on almost any computer. Sugar has a very distinct look and feel, and some specific interaction style guidelines. When the user is running the Sugar environment, publishing creates an entry in the sugar Journal, and adds a “Book” to the Browser application.
You can download the [http://addons.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/file/25927/infoslicer-3.xo current version (3) here.]
You can download Infoslicer from [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4042 here]. Get [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/downloads/latest/4042/platform:3 version 5 here].
The source is available in [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer gitorious.]
The source is available in [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer gitorious.]
A [[Image:Infoslicer-tutorial.pdf|PDF manual]] is available here.
A [[Image:Infoslicer-tutorial.pdf|PDF manual]] is available here. (This has not been updated for recent versions of InfoSlicer, and is known to be incompatible with InfoSlicer 8).
An [http://sugarlabs.org/wiki/images/c/c6/Infoslicer.xol xol documentation bundle] is available here.
An [http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/c/c6/Infoslicer.xol xol documentation bundle] is available here.
==The InfoSlicer User Interface==
==The Info Slicer User Interface==
All of the screenshots are based on the Giraffe Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe in September 2008.
All of the screenshots are based on the Giraffe Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe in September 2008.
The screenshots have not been updated for recent versions of InfoSlicer, such as InfoSlicer 8, and have more tabs. Use these screenshots as a guide only.
===The Library Pane===
===The Library Pane===
The Library has no real precedent in the Sugar environment and feedback from users suggested that that part of the application would benefit from some re-design work to make it more intuitive.
The Library has no real precedent in the Sugar environment and feedback from users suggested that that part of the application would benefit from some re-design work to make it more intuitive.
[[Category:Activities]]
==Resources==
* [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4042 Activity Library page]
* [http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/infoslicer Sources]
* [http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/honey/InfoSlicer/ Sources tarball]
* Trac Tickets: [http://trac.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&groupdesc=1&group=milestone&component=InfoSlicer&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=version&col=severity&col=resolution&col=status_field&col=reporter&col=time&col=changetime Sugar Labs]