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Posted on Friday, 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 [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 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 [...]
Posted on Wednesday, 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 [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 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 [...]
Posted on Thursday, 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 [...]
Posted on Friday, March 18th, 2011 by bridget
Our final evening event last night was for Life Sciences teachers, which was hosted by the Experilab in Bellville. The last six weeks have seen us cover a range of subjects and included an introductory opening evening, IT CAT, Maths, Physical Science, English and finally our Life Sciences evening. We had a turnout of nine [...]
Posted on Friday, February 11th, 2011 by bridget
The introductory evening on using OERs and technology in the classroom for teachers in the Northern Suburbs took place in Bellville last night at the Experilab.
Posted on Friday, November 19th, 2010 by bridget
Last night was our evening event on Open Education Resources for Maths, held at the Open Innovation Studio.