At Sugar Labs, we make a collection of tools that learners
use to explore, discover, create, and reflect.
We are non-profit and led by volunteers.
We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to
appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their
learning.
This is Sugar
Sugar is both a desktop and a collection of Activities.
Activities, as the name implies, are Apps that involve active
engagement from the learner. Activities automatically save
results to a journal, where reflections are recorded. Activity
instances can be shared between learners; many support real-time
collaboration.
In the Sugar Neighborhood view, learners see their
friends clustered around their current Activities; from this view they can
join each other’s Activities. Sugar collaboration works "peer to
peer," in a classroom or under a tree; Sugar does not require the
Internet.
The Sugar Journal records everything a learner does
using Sugar. There is no need to remember to click a Save Button. The focus is on
the activity, not the computer. The Journal is also a place for
reflection, where learners and their teachers can monitor progress.
Sugar on a Stick requires a thumb drive with at least 2GB
storage and downloading ~650MB. Sugar on a Stick is available for free
and does not permanently affect your computer.
GNU/Linux Install – The full Sugar environment –
installed on a GNU/Linux computer.
Sugar is available as a desktop environment on GNU/Linux. Up to date
packages are available for
Fedora,
Debian,
Ubuntu and
many other distros.
Sugar Runs Best on Computers.
Come back to www.sugarlabs.org on a computer to find
how to get the full Sugar environment.
Sugarizer (alpha) – A taste of Sugar within your browser.
Sugarizer provides basic Sugar features and some Activities.
Sugarizer works in any modern browser, on mobile, tablet or desktop.
Sugar Labs, a volunteer-driven, non-profit organization, had
its origins in the One Laptop Per Child project and is now a
member project of the
Software Freedom Conservancy. The mission of Sugar Labs is to support
the Sugar community of users and developers and establish regional,
autonomous “Sugar Labs” around the world to help learners “learn how to
learn” by tailoring Sugar to local languages and curricula.
Sugar Labs is an organization built around engaging people. We strive
to create software that works well for teachers and students - something that
can only happen with your engagement.
