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Posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010 by Mark Horner
Background
Siyavula is a non-profit education initiative which originated within the Shuttleworth Foundation. It grew out of an earlier project by Mark Horner, the Shuttleworth Foundation fellow for Open and Collaborative Resources, which used a group of volunteers to write a set of FET mathematics and physical sciences textbooks and released it under a free and [...]
Posted on Monday, July 5th, 2010 by neels
As the evaluation partner for the Siyavula initiative, ISKME has been conducting research on Siyavula’s activities and those of its teacher users to increase understanding of factors that contribute to the creation, use and localization of Siyavula’s resources in the South African context. As part of this research, ISKME seeks to inform the ways that [...]
Posted on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 by Davis Quinton
Our second session with the mathematics educators of AMESA on Comrades Marathon day, Saturday 29 May, commenced with the screening of three talks by international ICT innovators. These clips did well in riveting the focus of our delegates on the power of many collaborators making a small contribution. Many requests by educators for copies of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by neels
Siyavula Presentation and Uploading session on the 29th of May
We are excited to announce that we are presenting another Siyavula session for the AMESA educators in KZN. At the previous Siyavula AMESA workshop we managed to upload a number of worksheets, lesson plans, notes and exams into the AMESA KZN workgroup on the Connexions site. [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 by Davis Quinton
We were met by a lively, jocular and excited group of 45 educators, including the primary school principal, Mr Milton-Greene, at Christel House for their third training session on Monday 29 March. The group represented nearly the entire teaching staff across all grades R-12.
We were able to skill educators in creating a CNX account, as [...]
Posted on Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 by Davis Quinton
With the focus on the uploading of content to CNX, our workshop venue was abuzz with excitement yesterday. Our delegates were delighted at their new learning in using MS Word correctly and most attendees experienced success with the uploading process, albeit that nothing significant was published. Due to time constraints, we were unable to cover [...]
Posted on Friday, February 19th, 2010 by Davis Quinton
Our workshop for high school educators at Vuyiseka Secondary proved somewhat of a sobering experience!
Firstly, only fifty percent of the delegates were present as others were forced to re-prioritize their lives due to other commitments. Of the five educators who attended, two were new to Siyavula.
The session had just gotten underway when we discovered a [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 by Davis Quinton
Makhanyiseli Primary School hosted our second support workshop for primary school educators yesterday 16 February.
Present were ten educators of whom six previously received Siyavula training. The four new members from Mzamomhle Primarywere all invited by their colleague who had already experienced the Siyavula message.
Having Connexions accounts prepared beforehand for the attendees helped much to maintain [...]
Posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 by Davis Quinton
Nine foundation phase educators from Christel House were added to the Siyavula family as a result of a training workshop conducted at the school computer lab. Although only fifty percent of the invitees were able to attend, the group we worked with were a sheer pleasure to work with. We were also very excited by [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 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 [...]