Sugar in OLPC

Sugar works as the main operating system in the OLPC environment. It is used to promotes sharing and learning concurrently, within a fun and easy to use (child-friendly). Once you have an OLPC laptop, the Sugar is already installed. You can check more on instructions in using Sugar here. Sugar also uses different terminologies. For instance, it uses 'activities' instead of 'applications' or the 'ring' means 'active application or activity'. It also have a word processing named AbiWord that simplify other word processing and only have limited features.

Sugar have four different types of 'zoom' - Neighbourhood Shows, Friends Shows, Home Shows and Bulletin Board. They called it 'zoom' to show other people who also available and active on the local network. The idea of collaborative and cooperative learning can be done using the OLPC is what impress me the most. Since the collaboration can be control in a local network for a particular activity running, perhaps, it must be the best tool to be incorporate in teaching and learning in the classroom.

The design guidelines for Sugar subjectively focus more on aspects:
1 - Know Your Audience (a.k.a children)
2 - Performance
3 - Usability
4 - Simplicity
5 - Reliability
6 - Security
7 - Adaptability
8 - Recoverability
9 - Interoperability
10 - Mobility
11 - Transparency
12 - Accessibility