Please join us for a FullMarks uploading sprint for Physical Sciences educators! In addition to sharing your resources, this will be an oppurtunity to meet and network with Science teachers from many different schools. A time to work together and grow as a community!

Dates: 19 - 20 October 2011

*** You may attend only one day or both. If you can only attend one day, please come on Wednesday 19 October.

Time: 09h00 - 16h00 each day

Place: Room B16, St John's College, Johannesburg - see map on right. (Please ask reception for directions if you don't know where to find it)

Cost: Free! (tea and lunch will be provided)

To bring: Please bring any assessment items that you would like to contribute and share. Ideally these should be on a flashstick in an editable electronic format, such as Word documents, but paper copies are fine too. They can be test papers with memos, class exercises, or any assessment items that you would like to contribute to the world of free and open educational resources.

What to expect: 

This sprint will take place in a computer lab at St John's, and each educator will be seated at their own computer. Siyavula will demonstrate how you can upload your resources to FullMarks, and will provide tech support and assist you throughout the process, to ensure the experience is stress-free, rewarding and of value. You can create your own free account prior to the upload sprint (visit http://www.fullmarks.org.za/), or do so on the day. 

What is FullMarks?

FullMarks is our free and open online assessment bank, which allows for the sharing of quality assessment items by educators (http://www.fullmarks.org.za/). In addition to sharing your own resources, you can also view, edit and use existing questions and solutions that have been shared by other educators. It is so easy: all you need to do is create a free account on FullMarks, and you will have full access to this functionality. You can simply and easily create your own tests that will come complete with a memorandum, and then use the functionality on FullMarks for capturing marks and generating reports on learners' performance. 

Siyavula believes in sharing, community, collaboration and openness, and through the use of technology we strive to produce the best quality free educational resources out there! 

Contact us:

For any further information please do not hesitate to contact us!

• Email bridget@siyavula.com

• Telephone 021 469 4771

   

Who are we?

Siyavula is a Shuttleworth Foundation seeded project, and is the umbrella under which we run our initiatives. Siyavula supports the development of local curriculum-aligned open educational resources (OERs) and communities of educators sharing and collaborating. Our resources include a selection of free and open FET Science and Mathematics textbooks (http://www.siyavula.com/books), openly licensed GET learner workbooks (http://siyavula.cnx.org/lenses/siyavula) and an open assessment bank called FullMarks (www.fullmarks.org.za), for the sharing and accessing of test and exam questions with answers. We have recently launched our mobile front-end, making access to these free resources online even easier - point your phone at m.siyavula.cnx.org

Further information:

Our Physical Sciences and Mathematics Textbooks

The 'Physical Sciences for Grades 10, 11 and 12' and 'Mathematics for Grades 10, 11 and 12' series of textbooks were collaboratively authored by a community of volunteer educators, academics and professionals. These inspired volunteers seek to make this scientific knowledge freely and openly available to all learners and educators in South Africa. They are released under an open copyright licence, which allows others to legally distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon our work, even commercially, as long as they credit us for the original creation. This is in the same spirit as open source software, and we encourage learners and educators to download, copy, edit, adapt (even translate!), share and distribute our books and resources legally at no cost.