[Yr7-10it] Sugar (OLPC activities)

[Bill Kerr]

The one laptop per child (OLPC) or xo software is called Sugar. Sugar is
both a new operating system (OS) and a variety of educational activities
(applications). Earlier this year there was some turmoil within the OLPC
project which led to Walter Bender leaving and setting up Sugar Labs. It is
open source educational activities which work in a collaborative framework
and are currently being ported to a variety of other platforms.

I've worked out how to run Sugar on Windows computers, by booting off USB
keys. This means that the software can be tested and evaluated in the
industrialised world even though the xo's are hard to obtain, being
earmarked for the developing world.

Students in a year 10 class at my school are currently evaluating Sugar
activities. Details can be found here:
http://xo-whs.wikispaces.com/

-- 
Bill Kerr
http://billkerr2.blogspot.com/
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