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October 21st, 2011 by bridget
This past weekend was incredibly exciting for Siyavula and South African education! With a group of 23 volunteer educators and post-grad students, we produced the first draft of a free and open Grade 10 life sciences textbook, aligned to CAPS for 2012! This first draft is a 300+ page document, which although will need revision [...]
October 7th, 2011 by bridget
With our life sciences weekend just around the corner (14 – 16 October!), the Siyavula team is full of excitement and anticipation for what the weekend will hold! Much planning and activity is happening in our office, as we make final preparations for the weekend to ensure its success!
We have Tommy Botha who is the [...]
September 23rd, 2011 by bridget
Siyavula is very excited to have the sign up page for the Life Sciences textbook creation weekend open! Please visit http://siyavula-lifesci14-16october.eventbrite.com/ which provides further information on this event, as well as the registration page for this exciting collaboration!
We are calling on all Life Sciences educators, post-grad students and researchers that believe that educational resources should be [...]
September 23rd, 2011 by bridget
Siyavula, in collaboration with St John’s College in Johannesburg, will be hosting a FullMarks uploading sprint on Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 October 2011. This sprint is intended for Physical Sciences educators to openly share their teaching resources, work together and grow as a community! In addition to the sharing of resources, it is an oppurtunity [...]
September 22nd, 2011 by bridget
Background
Siyavula is a Shuttleworth Foundation seeded project that supports and encourages communities of teachers to work together, openly share their teaching resources and benefit from the use of technology. We believe that it is through collaboration and the freedom to adapt and contextualise teaching material to suit their specific needs, that a higher standard of [...]
September 21st, 2011 by carine
This past weekend saw Siyavula’s most effective hackathon yet! We were recently approached by the South African Institute of Civil Engineering’s (SAICE) UCT chapter to partner with them in one of their yearly outreach initiatives. It was a logical fit for them as they could use the knowledge and skills they have acquired at UCT [...]
September 21st, 2011 by bridget
In preparation for our forthcoming Life Sciences collaboration weekend in Cape Town, we have created a diagrammatic representation of how we plan to create a free and open Life Sciences textbook! The textbook will be created through Life Sciences educators and post-grad students working together and combining teaching notes, additional resources and rich-media to cover [...]
September 16th, 2011 by bridget
Why are we creating this book?
This book is Siyavula’s response to a call for help from Life Sciences educators for a comprehensive teaching resource for 2012.
Despite textbooks being authored many learners don’t have textbooks – Siyavula is providing a web-based authoring solution that guarantees that the book is automatically available in PDF for printing, ePub [...]
September 7th, 2011 by bridget
Join Siyavula in our new quest! A quest to compile a free Life Sciences textbook from educators’ teaching resources, to be used in 2012 and beyond!
As you are aware, the Life Sciences curriculum is changing again. With CAPS coming into effect in 2012, it means adapting your teaching and your resources to accommodate this change. [...]
August 31st, 2011 by bridget
We are looking for an individual with FET teaching experience in mathematics to work on FHSST / FullMarks content authoring and editing, for FET maths. Please see below for the job spec and to find out how to apply!
Background
Free High School Science Texts (FHSST )
The Free High School Science Textbook (FHSST) project is our contribution [...]