September was a month of steady progress for Siyavula. A lot of work has been going on in the background finishing off the training manual and developing new functionality for Connexions. That will all be launched in October so look out for the next update.
Some of the highlights of September were:
Second Teachers’ Workshop
We held our second workshop for teachers in Kwa-Zulu Natal on the 4th and 5th of September. Approximately 60 people attended our workshop and it was a resounding success. The workshop goals were:
- show the power of the Connexions platform for using, building,
sharing and adapting resources; - promote the formation of new communities forming that use
Connexions as a use to support their activities and provide the
possibility of for new communities to form; and - provide an environment that can enhance existing communities or
swap and share groups.
You can read more about it at
Kwa-Zulu Natal Workshop
Community Presentation Available
We made the slides for the community side of our workshop available and you can find them on here on Connexions.
Teach South Africa
We had the opportunity to train the Teach South Africa ambassadors to use the Connexions site, please read the blog post for more details:
Teach South Africa Ambassadors
This was a great opportunity to provide new teachers with access to resources to help them get their teaching careers off to a good start. We hope to have an opportunity to train the new ambassadors early next year so that they can benefit from the content and community tools on Connexions.
Technical Support
We also had the opportunity to respond to a number of support requests and we are looking forward to more from interested workgroups.
We’ve trained two teachers from KZN to provide support to workgroups in Tongaat so those groups will receive support if they request it.
Things are ticking along steadily and October will be a busy month. Visit this site for updates on our activities and for support requests send an email to support@siyavula.org.za