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About
=====
The Browse activity is your means to explore a wider source of
information and content that can be found in what's called the World
Wide Web (Internet or Web for short). Although there are some built-in
information included on this activity (OLPC Library), to make the most
of this activity you need an internet connection. Please see the chapter
on "Neighborhood View and Connecting to the Internet".
The first thing that you will see when you first click on the Browse
icon from the Home View is what's called the Home page.
Using Browse
============
**Toolbar**
(Note: To see the name of the tool/button, you can put your mouse arrow
on top of its picture)
**Activity**
**Browse Description Bar** - This will serve as the **Browse** activity
description in the Journal. Change this to something distinctive
especially when you have multiple window tabs opened that's related to
one particular topic.
**Privacy Tool** - Use this to change the privacy setting of the current
Browse activity. The default is set to Private.
**Text Finder and Edit Tool**
**Undo** - The Browse activity remembers the last change that you've
made on the page. Use this button to step back to the last change that
you made.
**Redo** - Use this button to go back to the current changes that you
made after doing an "Undo".
**Copy** - This is used to copy a text or passage from the current page
you are viewing. To do this, you need to first highlight(left-click
while dragging your mouse arrow)the text. You know you've highlighted a
text when its background color turned grey. Then, press this tool to
copy it to the clipboard. A small image on the left hand side of the
frame will appear. This "holds" the text you just copied. You can now
"paste" this text or just simply click and drag it to other activities.
The copied text will disappear once the XO is restarted or shutdown.
**Paste** - This tool is for pasting texts from other activities into
the current page that you are viewing. You can only paste texts on areas
of the page where pasting is allowed. It will remember this text until
the XO is restarted or shutdown.
**Text Search Bar** -This tool is great to use when you need to quickly
find a text on a current page you're viewing. Press the enter key to go
down the page. The text that you are looking for would be highlighted in
green. Press the little "x" symbol on the right of the bar to erase the
text.
**Text Search Navigation Arrows** - While you can press the Enter key to
search down the page, these arrows are useful to search the page. Use
the left arrow to go back up the page and the right arrow to go down the
page.
**View Tool**
**Zoom Out** - When you want to see more of the page, use this tool to
make it smaller.
**Zoom In** - When you want to see things better, use this tool to make
the page bigger.
**Full Screen** - You can press this to see the entire page without the
toolbar.
**Tray Toggle button** - This tool only works when you have things on
the tray (the space on the bottom of the Browse page) like pages that
you have bookmarked (Please see bookmark description). Use this tool to
make the tray visible or invisible. Browse remembers your bookmarked
pages even when the tray is not visible. Just simply make it visible
again to see those bookmarks.
**Home Icon**
Clicking this takes you back to the Home Page. Useful when you're lost
and need a starting point.
**Address Bar**
Each page on the internet has its own address. The address bar shows you
the current web address of the page you are viewing. If you know the web
address of a page, you can type it on this bar and press the enter key
to navigate to that page.
**Bookmark**
Sometimes it is useful to remember the pages that you visited. Clicking
this icon will save the web address of the current page you are viewing.
A small thumbnail image of this page will appear on the bottom(tray).
Bookmarks are saved only on the current Browse activity. They will not
show up when you open a new Browse activity.
**Stop Activity Tool** Closes the current Browse activity. This will
open up a Journal page that prompts you to name the activity and add
descriptions.
**OLPC Library**
The Browse activity has built in books, information and pages that you
can access even without a connection to the internet. Click on any of
the texts to see what you can find. Have fun exploring!
Copying Images From The Web
To copy an image, point your mouse arrow on the picture and right-click
on it (press the button on the bottom of your track pad that has a
circle on it). A box similar to the picture shown above will appear with
information on the source or web address of the picture along with the
file name of the picture. There are two ways to copy an image:
**Keep Image** - this will put a copy of the image to the Journal.
**Copy Image** - this will place a copy of the image to the clipboard,
which you can then drag and drop to another activity. This copy is
temporary and will disappear from the clipboard when you shutdown the
XO. So if you need to save the image, it is best to do a "Keep Image"
instead.
Learning with Browse
====================
Browse gives access to the internet which is a powerful information and
communication tool and allows students to participate in the global
community and experience. There are so many things on the web that you
can use and incorporate in your classroom, but one of the many great
ways to start is to help students make sense of where they are in
relation to this global context. How far are they from the earthquake's
epicenter that rocked Japan? Where is their country's capital? How big
is their country compared to others? Where are the historical places in
their country and the world that shaped human history and culture? One
of the many great tools on the web that can be readily and freely
accessed is Google maps (type this on the address bar):
[http://maps.google.com](http://maps.google.com)/
If you live in an area that is adequately mapped by Google Maps, you can
ask students to use the "Get directions" tool on the page to see how
they can go from one place to another. The directions tool can also
teach students a sense of distance by showing how far two places are
from each other. Example, how far do they travel every day for school
(Given that sense of distance, how far and how long will it take to get
to the nearest city or town)?
Extending Browse
================
There's a built in Google search bar on the home page of Browse that you
can direct students to aid in their research. Help them narrow or expand
their search texts to come up with better search results.
To allow students to be active participants in the global community,
communication tools can be freely and readily accessed via Browse: from
creating free e-mail accounts to tools that allow people to create their
own internet sites and pages.
But like with any type of exploration, you have to start with caution.
Not all information on the internet is good. Start with educating kids
to safely use and explore the internet. You can check out sites like:
[http://www.wiredkids.org/kids/index.html](http://www.wiredkids.org/kids/index.html)
for more information.
Where to report problems
========================
In [http://bugs.sugarlabs.org](http://bugs.sugarlabs.org), component
Browse.
Credits
=======
Browse was developed and maintained by: Lucian, Sascha Silbe, erikos,
manuq
Browse can be downloaded from the [Sugar Labs Activities
repository](http://activities.sugarlabs.org/).
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