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August 2nd, 2011 by bridget
Saturday 30 July was our second Afrikaans translation Hackathon at Stellenbosch University. We had 19 Afrikaans volunteers arrive for the day, and they translated a huge amount of content and did a brilliant job (plus 2 English volunteers who did other work for us on Connexions)!
Once again a large amount of preparation was done to [...]
July 20th, 2011 by heather
After our previous visit to Johannesburg in May, St John’s College expressed interest in joining the open education movement, and making their science content available online under an open licence. Following this, the Siyavula technical team arrived at St John’s on Monday morning 18 July, ready to help the science department upload their content to [...]
July 11th, 2011 by bridget
Two months ago we held our first ever Hackathon at Stellenbosch University where, with the help of first language Afrikaans volunteers we started the process of translating FHSST into Afrikaans. We made excellent progress on our Grade 10 maths textbook, which we have since submitted for review for the government approved textbook list! Our [...]
May 31st, 2011 by bridget
Our month of May(hem) has almost drawn to a close, but it does mean that Junacy (June + lunacy) is not far off. This last week saw part of the team in Johannesburg, where we met with schools and organisations, interviewed teachers using technology in the classroom, and hosted evening events at St David’s Marist [...]
May 20th, 2011 by bridget
For weeks the Siyavula team was organising the trip to visit schools in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, which took place last week from Tuesday 10 – Friday 13 May. We eagerly watched the registrations for our evening talks roll in, and with each new sign up so the anticipation mounted.
After a safe arrival in Durban at [...]
May 3rd, 2011 by bridget
Tuesday 19 April was our ninth Hackathon of the year, and our final one for a little while as we are putting our Hackathons on hold temporarily due to our Siyavula work commitments. We had a strong turnout of 29 volunteers, and as always it was great to see the familiar faces of everyone as [...]
April 14th, 2011 by bridget
Our turnout at last night’s Hackathon was smaller than usual, but nevertheless we had 21 enthusiastic volunteers! Mark went from table to table and gave everyone a status update on the project and the progress being made.
To expand on this, we are very excited to announce that the new Grade 10 versions of FHSST with [...]
April 6th, 2011 by bridget
The second term for UCT students has begun, and this being their first week of term was no deterrent for Hackathon attendance. We had 23 sign ups on Eventbrite, but we have learned that this is no indication of what the turnout will be!
At around 18h30 we were sitting on 14 volunteers, which was of [...]
March 30th, 2011 by bridget
UCT students are currently on holiday, so it was great watching our Eventbrite attendance sign up page increase in numbers in the lead up to last night’s Hackathon, to the point where we were expecting 23 people. But even more exciting than this, was having eight new sign ups last night (some signed up but [...]
March 23rd, 2011 by bridget
This is the last week of term for UCT students (can you believe it!), but despite this we had 21 signups on Eventbrite, and ended up with 26 volunteers at our Hackathon last night! Some volunteers came along after their tests, which is serious dedication if you ask me. We did things a bit differently [...]