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The life sciences textbook weekend
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 [...]

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 [...]

English was the subject, Experilab was the venue! Last night was our second last evening event for teachers in the Northern Suburbs, and with a gathering of nine English teachers present, there was some good conversation as everyone enjoyed some snacks and refreshments.
We decided to do things a little differently at this event, with [...]

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.

Introduction to Open Education Resources in Life Sciences
Posted on Friday, November 12th, 2010 by bridget

We shared an enjoyable evening with some Life Sciences teachers from Cape Town schools, as we discussed and shared free resource ideas for bringing technology into the classroom.

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