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diff --git a/source/chat.markdown b/source/chat.markdown deleted file mode 100644 index 5dad6c8..0000000 --- a/source/chat.markdown +++ /dev/null @@ -1,272 +0,0 @@ -% Chat -% -% - -About -===== - -The Chat Activity is used to exchange messages with your friends or -classmates. You can chat about a topic you are studying or you can share -something private that happened in your life. You need at least two -active XOs to chat - your own and the one that your friend uses. - -Using Chat -========== - -Starting Chat -------------- - -Chat creats text conversation with others XO users. Chat is a shared -activity, with one or many other "Friends" in your "Neighborhood", or -those connected to your olpc mesh network. - -The Chat Activity icon is a speech bubble. To add the Chat Activity to -your home view, click the star on the left side of the icon. Now click -on the Chat icon to start. - -Sharing Chat ------------- - -You can either share Chat publicly or keep it private and invite -specific people to join. - -In the Chat toolbar, there is a circle icon with a dot. Click on this -icon and select the neighborhood or public sharing. - -When you have selected the Neighborhood View, find a friend to invite -and hold the pointer on their icon until the "Invite to" popup appears. -Now a Chat icon appears in the menu and the friend gets an invitation to -Chat in their frame. Your Chat icon also appears in their Neighborhood -view. - -You can invite as many other XOs to your Chat as you like, creating a -private group discussion. Anyone else who joins can invite others. - -Join a Chat -=========== - -You can join a Sugar Chat that has already been started. - -Two or more XO computers from One Laptop Per Child can speak to each -other directly without an Internet connection. This is a direct -connection. You can also chat with people on the Internet who use Sugar. -This section describes joining a chat between two or more XO computers -from One Laptop Per Child. - -First, look at the Neighborhood View to see if there is an existing Chat -you want to join. - -**CHAT SAFELY**: Only chat with someone you know. If a someone invites -you to chat, don't chat with them unless you know them. - -If you see a XO icon with a little speech bubble icon next to it, that -person is in a shared Chat. Several people may be around the Chat icon, -showing a group Chat. - -Click the little speech icon, and select the Join option. - -Then the Chat Activity starts, connected to the shared Chat. You see the -other people in the Chat, on the Frame. - -Chatting --------- - -Once you are in the Chat Activity, you can begin typing to send a -message and chat with the other person. After you type a message you can -press the enter key to send it. - -To enter messages type them in the box at the bottom of the Chat -Activity. Always press enter at the end of the message. Once you press -enter your message appears on your friend's computer. - -Accept an invitation to chat ----------------------------- - -You may be invited to chat. An invitation appears as a little speech -icon in the upper-left of the screen in every view. (The invitation also -appears on the Frame.) The colors of the icon match the colors of the -friend who sent the invitation. - -You accept the invitation by hovering over the icon and selecting Join. -You decline the invitation by selecting Decline. - -Things to Do with Chat -====================== - -Chat is a great for sending messages back and forth with a friend, -socializing, and working together on projects. - -Remember that being polite on a computer is just as important as being -polite when you're speaking with someone. - -- Be polite. Try not to interrupt. -- Read through what people are saying before you say something. -- Don't type in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. This style is considered rude as - it is like shouting at someone. -- If you do not speak the same language as another person it may be - difficult to communicate with Chat. Be patient. If you have an - Internet connection, you can try going to www.google.com/translate - and type in a phrase that you want to say in another language so you - can be friendly online. - -**Fun** - -- It can be fun to make words shorter when typing in a Chat Activity - because it is faster, like texting (sending messages) on a mobile - phone. For example instead of typing in "how are you?", you can type - in "how r u?" - -> The following are some ways you might like to try using Chat: - -- Arrange a time to meet friends to play. -- Organize a community gathering. -- Bring friends together to talk about doing a group project. -- Brainstorm ideas (either "fast and furious" or by taking turns). -- Ask your teacher questions about your homework. -- Use Chat and write a story with friends online using the Write - Activity. -- Use Chat to practice writing in a foreign language (see if you can - find a native speaker to chat with). -- Organize other Sugar or XO users to meet and learn from each other. -- Use Chat to communicate with a grandparent or other family member. -- Interview an expert using the Chat Activity as if they were in the - classroom, especially an expert who wouldn’t otherwise be able to - visit. -- Take group discussion notes. -- Play a word-association game such as typing the first word that - comes to mind when your friend types red. -- Play a role-playing game (for example, have a friend pretend to be a - character from a book you are reading, and chat with the - role-playing friend). - -Use emoticons in Chat ---------------------- - -There are ways to tell friends how you feel just by using letters - they -can let someone know if you are happy, sad, or having fun. When you make -letters look like a face, they are called emoticons. - -Some are written so that you read them sideways. - -This is a happy face: - -:) - -This is a sad face: - -:( - -This is a wink: - -;) - -See if you can find the keys on the keyboard to make the faces - -The two dots are the colon key : and the semicolon key ; - -The mouth are the parentheses keys () - -You can also make faces that go across: - -Happy - -(\^\_\^) - -Sad - -(\<\_\>) - -Winking (\^\_\~) - -What other emoticons can you create with text in the Chat Activity? - -Can you draw pictures using only the text symbols on your keyboard? This -combination of a symbol and a number looks like a sideways heart \<3. "I -\<3 my XO" means, "I love my XO." - -Make Friends ------------- - -When you are in the Neighborhood View, if you move the pointer over -someone, you can see their name, and click Make Friends. When you Make -Friends, your new friend appears in your Group View list. - -The Group View list helps you keep a list of your friends online who you -like chatting with. - -Read a past log of conversations --------------------------------- - -If you open the Journal Activity to open the Chat in the detail view, -you can choose to open the Chat Activity with the Write Activity instead -of the Chat Activity window. - -Notes for parents and teachers ------------------------------- - -Chat presents a great opportunity engage children in reading and -writing. The natural inclination for children to socialize and express -themselves can be channeled in some of the exercises outlined above. -(Some children who are by their nature shy and reserved, are more -confident speaking up in a chat room.) Chat can be motivating and is an -authentic use of language skills, however, preparation and supervision -are recommended. - -Prepare your children and students: - -- Remind them never to chat with someone they don't know. -- Remind them to be courteous and never to use language they wouldn't - be comfortable with in their oral communication (for example, it's - OK to disagree, but not to be disagreeable). - -Prepare your chat session: - -- Some teachers prepare questions in advance. They can paste these - questions into the Chat session from the Clipboard or Write - Activity—this helps them stay on task and keeps the pace of the - session lively. - -- Limit the number of students participating in the Chat session; more - that 10–12 participants makes a session chaotic. -- Ask your students to prepare by posing questions in advance. -- As in any classroom discussion, keep the conversation focused on - just one or two topics. -- IT IS SOMETIME USEFUL TO USE ALL-CAPS TO GET EVERYONE'S ATTENTION. - -Advanced features -================= - -Computers not running Sugar can initiate chat connections to a Sugar -user by running a Jabber (XMPP) client, either with both computers -registered on the same Jabber server or by running a link local XMPP -account such as Empathy with salut or Pidgin with Bonjour. - -Here's an example of a buddy list on another non-Sugar computer. - -When you initiating the chat on a non-Sugar computer using a Jabber -client, an invitation appears on the Sugar computer and the Sugar user -can chat with you as usual except that the colors of the non-Sugar -participant's response lines are gray as shown below. - -Here's what the non-Sugar computer sees on their Jabber client. - -And here's the response as seen on the Sugar computer. - -CHAT SAFELY: Remember, only chat with someone you know. If someone -invites you to chat, don't chat with them unless you know them. It's -perfectly okay to refuse a chat request. - -Note to parents and teachers ----------------------------- - -You can use this feature to chat with Sugar-enabled computers from -non-Sugar-enabled computers; hence you can chat with your child or class -from a conventional desktop or laptop computer. - -:author: - -> © Walter Bender 2008 -> -> Anne Gentle 2008 -> -> Sandra Thaxter 2012 |