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December 15th, 2009 by Cynthia Jimes
Since March of this year, ISKME has been studying Siyavula’s workshops, documenting the project’s model for teacher professional development and community building as a way to shed light on the formation and engagement of Siyavula’s OER communities. Through workshop observations and interviews with workshop facilitators and Siyavula project leaders to date, our work has revealed [...]
December 10th, 2009 by quinton
Thirty-odd spirited educators gathered at Sibaya for the year-end conference on Friday 4 December 2009. The format of the gathering mimicked that of the Cape Town one.
Educators were happy to engage in the activity focussed on re-connecting and shared their experiences regarding Siyavula with enthusiasm. Of note was the fact that, even though they had [...]
December 9th, 2009 by quinton
22 November 2009 marked the Siyavula year-end conference in Cape Town.
The Schuttleworth foundation was a hive of activity before the start of the event. The focus of the morning event was to re-connect with the delegates of the Cape Town Siyavula conference, to share success stories and challenges as well discuss the way forward.
The delegates [...]
December 8th, 2009 by quinton
Saturday 28 November saw yet another Siyavula workshop successfully executed, but this time, distinctly different from what we’ve done before.
The principle focus for this session with 50 mathematics educators, all members of the Association for Mathematics Educators of South Africa (AMESA), was the uploading of content in Word format, which delegates were requested to [...]
November 4th, 2009 by Mark Horner
A preview of new functionality to streamline reuse on Connexions.
October 29th, 2009 by Mark Horner
We’ve developed a training manual for Siyavula trainees on how to use Connexions to support their activities.
October 29th, 2009 by quinton
On Wednesday 18 October we enthused 17 more educators, 3 of whom had previously been trained, from the Philippi and Nyanga areas about Siyavula OER. The workshop, which lasted for 2 hours, was attended by mathematics, science, business studies and technology high school educators who left the session thrilled at the possibilities of OER accessibility. [...]
October 28th, 2009 by Mark Horner
Often the feedback that we receive from individual teachers or learners is all the motivation we need.
October 23rd, 2009 by neels
To help teachers get the most out of the Siyavula and the Free High School Science Texts projects (http://www.siyavula.org.za and http://www.fhsst.org), we want to see these resources printed as cost effectively as possible while still ensuring high print quality.We believe that by aggregating print orders we can do just that. Therefore we are setting up [...]
October 19th, 2009 by neels
This past Thursday (15 Oct 2009), Siyavula conducted a follow-up Connexions technical training at John Pama Primary School, located in the Nyunga township of the Western Cape.
Teachers from a number of surrounding primary and high schools attended the event and shared feedback about their experiences using the Connexions platform. Quinton Davis led a discussion [...]