- INTRODUCTION
- INTRODUCTION
- ABOUT OLPC
- WHAT IS SUGAR
- HOW TO VOLUNTEER
- GETTING STARTED
- GETTING STARTED
- OPENING THE XO
- PORTS
- BATTERY CHARGING
- STARTING THE XO
- KEYBOARD
- INTERFACE
- ABOUT THE USER INTERFACE
- HOME VIEW
- ACTIVITY VIEW
- NEIGHBOURHOOD VIEW
- GROUP VIEW
- THE FRAME
- THE JOURNAL
- ACTIVITIES
- WHAT IS AN ACTIVITY
- LAUNCHING ACTIVITIES
- SWITCHING ACTIVITIES
- COLLABORATING
- EXITING ACTIVITIES
- INSTALLING ACTIVITIES
- ACTIVITY SAMPLER
- NETWORK
- GIVE ME THE INTERNET
- CONNECTING
- WIRELESS DEVICES
- NETWORKING HARDWARE
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- RECORD ACTIVITY
- INTRODUCTION
- STARTING RECORD
- PHOTOS
- VIDEO
- AUDIO
- SHARING MEDIA
- THINGS TO TRY
- WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
- BROWSE ACTIVITY
- INTRODUCTION
- WHAT IS THE WEB
- STARTING BROWSE
- BROWSE WEB
- BOOKMARKS
- CHANGING THE VIEW
- SHARING LINKS
- COUNTRY QUIZ
- SEARCH THE WEB
- USING WIKIPEDIA
- CONTRIBUTE TO WIKIPEDIA
- USING EMAIL
- WRITE ACTIVITY
- INTRODUCTION
- STARTING WRITE
- COLLABORATING
- PEER EDITING
- THE BASICS
- GROUP STORY TELLING
- LETTER TO THE EDITOR
- EMAILING A DOCUMENT
- TURTLE ART
- INTRODUCTION
- GETTING STARTED
- STARTER COMMANDS
- PEN COLORS
- PEN COMMANDS
- TRY TURTLE ART
- TURTLE ART LETTERS
- REPEATING COMMANDS
- NUMBERS AND COMMANDS
- SHAPES AND SPECTRUM
- SUPPORT
- HOW TO REFLASH
- POWERING OF YOUR LAPTOP
- REPLACING
- BACKING UP
- GETTING SUPPORT
- APPENDICES
- KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
- PERSONALISING SUGAR
- GLOSSARY
- CREDITS

# WHAT IS AN ACTIVITY?

Sugar applications are called “Activities.” Activities include an application as well as sharing and collaboration capabilities, a built-in interface to the Journal, and other features such as the clipboard.

The Journal Activity is pre-installed. Other Activities can be distributed as part of an Activity Pack. There are many, many others you can install yourself.

Activities you have specified as favourites appear as a ring of icons around the XO icon in the center of the Home View. All the Activities you have installed are shown in the List mode of Home View.

Some Activities allow Sugar users to work and learn cooperatively. For example, Write allows several users to collaboratively create a document. Read allows several users to read the same document or a teacher to share a book with an entire classroom. Memorize allows a group of users to play a game together.

Another class of Activities allow users to write software. A variety of computer languages such as Logo, SmallTalk, CSound, and Python are supported within the TurtleArt, Etoys, TamTam, and Pippy Activities.

Author : WhatIsAnActivity
© adam hyde 2008
Modifications:
Aaron Konstam 2008
Anne Gentle 2008
David Farning 2008
Janis Grinbergs 2008
Tom Boyle 2008
Walter Bender 2008

License : General Public License

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