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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 Friday, October 7th, 2011 by bridget
With our life sciences weekend just around the corner (14 – 16 October!), the Siyavula team is full of excitement and anticipation for what the weekend will hold! Much planning and activity is happening in our office, as we make final preparations for the weekend to ensure its success!
We have Tommy Botha who is the [...]
Posted on Wednesday, September 21st, 2011 by bridget
In preparation for our forthcoming Life Sciences collaboration weekend in Cape Town, we have created a diagrammatic representation of how we plan to create a free and open Life Sciences textbook! The textbook will be created through Life Sciences educators and post-grad students working together and combining teaching notes, additional resources and rich-media to cover [...]
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 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, March 4th, 2011 by bridget
Siyavula has been running a repeat of our evening events that serve to introduce teachers to using open educational resources (OERs) and technology in the classroom. These have been taking place at the Experilab in Bellville each week, with last night’s function aimed at physical science teachers.We had a good turnout of 15 teachers, and [...]
Posted on Friday, February 25th, 2011 by bridget
A report back on our Maths evening for educators, held last night at the Experilab.
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 Sunday, August 30th, 2009 by Mark Horner
The agenda was very dense but participants were engaged and lively right until the end and the weekend was a resounding success. You can see the photographs on our Flickr stream. We have received a lot of very positive feedback and are looking forward to supporting the participants in their use of Connexions.