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Siyavula's contribution to the world of Open Educational Resources A guide on where to find them and how to use them!
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Siyavula's contribution to the world of Open Educational Resources
A guide on where to find them and how to use them!
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Traditional copyright
All the Siyavula resources are released under an open copyright license. This allows educators and learners to freely read, download, copy, change and also
freely distribute the content.
Exploring Copyright licenses
Open copyright
Our Open Resources
● Workbooks Siyavula workbooks for Grades R-9 for all subjects, and in English and Afrikaans http://cnx.org/lenses/siyavula
● Siyavula WebBooksFET Mathematics and Physical Science textbooks with
embedded on-line media–rich resources www.siyavula.com
● FullMarks assessment bankAn open and free on-line test and exam question library
populated by South African teachers. www.fullmarks.org.za
The Siyavula WebBooks is a set of free and open textbooks for Grades 10, 11 and 12 in Mathematics and Physical Science. They were written by a group of volunteers, educators, academics and professionals with the aim of making the knowledge freely available. Rich in worked examples and conceptual explanations, they can be freely downloaded, viewed on-line or ordered in printed format. Download them in .pdf from http://www.siyavula.com/books
Siyavula WebBooks
www.siyavula.com
Siyavula FET Maths and Science Textbooks
How to use our WebBooks
Read them on our mobile front-end
m.siyavula.cnx.org
How to use our WebBooks
You can use the WebBook to guide you to all the amazing free resources out there...
Siyavula WebBooks
How to use our WebBooks
Download the Maths or Science .pdf or buy a printed copy from us: www.siyavula.com/book
The rich media resources available on-line are indicated in the printed or .pdf versions with icons. Short codes provide quick navigation on-line.
Videos
Simulations
Educator presentations
Assessment items
How to use our Webbooks
Find these icons with the corresponding short code in the book to be lead to the rich-media on-line version
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How to use our WebBooks
An example of how the icons and short codes will appear in the book
How to use our WebBooks
How to use our WebBooks
The Khan Academy videos (www.khanacademy.org) provides a library of 10 – 20 minute video explanations covering concepts in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology and more at a secondary and early tertiary level. Currently more than 1800+ videos are available.
The videos we link to in our WebBooks:
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How to use our WebBooks
The PhET simulations (phet.colorado.edu) are fun, interactive simulations of physical phenomena which helps students visually comprehend concepts. The user manipulates the tools and the responses are immediately animated
How to use our WebBooks
The simulations we link to in our WebBooks
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Local science educator, Keith Warne (www.slideshare.net/kwarne) at Bishops College, openly shared copies of his FET Physics and Chemistry presentations on SlideShare for educators to download, use and adapt
How to use our WebBooks
The presentations we link to in our WebBooks
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International award winning maths educator Dan Meyer (blog.mrmeyer.com) shares his growing collection of mathematics case studies openly. These real world contexts helps educators present curriculum concepts in an entertaining manner.
The presentations we link to in our WebBooks
How to use our WebBooks
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How to use our WebBooks
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The open assessment bank called FullMarks (www.fullmarks.org.za) contains a collection of test and exam questions. These are used by educators to set test papers and by learners for further practice. Our books link to the solutions on FullMarks.
How to use our WebBooks
The assessment items we link to in our WebBooks
Contribute resources
We are continuously growing the pool of Open Educational Resources
If you have or know of any free and open educationalvideos, simulations, projects, experiments, power point
presentations, tests and exam questions, please and exam questions, please consider contributing them to our library of openconsider contributing them to our library of openeducational resources for educators to use, adapteducational resources for educators to use, adapt
and redistributeand redistribute
Contact us
If you have any queries, comments or suggestionsWe would love to hear from you!
[email protected]@siyavula.com
