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Posted on Monday, June 16th, 2008 by Mark Horner
Today I attended the Information for Change II workshop held at the Cape Town Book Fair. It is still a little unclear exactly how I came to be there, apart from driving I mean. Bill Carman and Steve Song arranged it so that I got to present a poster on our latest pet idea, the [...]
Posted on Monday, May 19th, 2008 by Mark Horner
Siyavula is a project focused on the development of educational materials. These materials will ultimately be hosted on a website with the primary authors being teachers. The question needs to be asked (and answered) as to who will (or should) own the copyright to the material on the website? Some initial thoughts relating to this [...]
Posted on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 by admin
Normally when I tell someone about my personal project, Free High School Science Texts (FHSST), or my day job, Siyavula, the average response includes the following elements:
helping education is a great idea
current textbooks are expensive
what about publishers / are you trying to put publishers out of business
The only concern they have is [...]