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FullMarks
Posted on Friday, 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 [...]
Posted on Wednesday, 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 [...]
Posted on Friday, 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 [...]
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 Monday, 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 [...]
Posted on Tuesday, 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 [...]
Posted on Friday, 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 [...]
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 Wednesday, 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 [...]