Siyavula supports communities of educators working together in South Africa. One way in which we believe this could be better achieved is through blogging and social media. We have recently run workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town for educators to show them how to use these tools to connect and support other educators.

2. Contexts abound ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khym54/600539107/

3. All are challenging ...
http://www.parklands.co.za/photo-gallery

4. Technology's Promise
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dolescum/2503834924/

5. Collaboration
Sharing is fundamental to teaching

6. Effective Sharing
Open everything ...
o p e n p r o c e s s e s – iterative, transparent and
collaborative
o p e n c o p y r i g h t l i c e n c e s – freedom to distribute, adapt
and enhance
o p e n s t a n d a r d s – formats that enable the
freedoms
o p e n s o u r c e s o f t w a r e – freedom distribute, adapt and
enhance

7. Cape Town Open Education Declaration
Required
reading ...

8. Our Work
Increase the
library of openly
shared resources
(OERs)

9. Our Work
Identify innovative
and engaging
ways of delivering
curriculum

10. Our Work
Support
communities
and conduct
professional
development

11. A simple introduction to:
Social Media and Blogs

14. Rule 1:
Don't Panic

15. Rule 1:
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Don't Panic
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16. Too old?

17. Too much, too fast?

18. The internet is a dangerous place?

19. Too old?

20. Too old?
Raymond Chandler
started writing in his
early 40s after losing his
job as an oil-industry
executive during the
great depression. His
first novel The Big Sleep
was published in 1939.
He was 51.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age

21. Too old?
The average age at
which Nobel laureates
make their prizewinning
breakthroughs was
recently found to be 48.
Harry Kroto, who won
the chemistry prize in
1996, made his when he
was 46.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age

22. Too old?
Philosopher Mary Midgley
had brought up three
children and worked as a
lecturer in provincial British
universities for more than 20
years when she published
her first book at the age of
56. Later she remarked: "I
wrote no books until I was a
good 50, and I'm jolly glad
because I didn't know what I
thought before then." Her
most recent book, The
Solitary Self: Darwin and the
selfish gene, was published
in 2010, when Midgley was
91.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age

23. Too old?
Ultramarathon runner Marco
Olmo started running in his
20s but didn't win his first big
title until he was 50. In 2006,
aged 58, he won the 166-
kilometre Ultra-Trail du Mont-
Blanc – considered one of
the world's toughest races –
and proved it wasn't a fluke
by winning again the next
year.
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn21559-middle-age

24. Too much, too fast?

25. ~ 200+ million tweets per
day
~ 3 million posts per day
~ 7000+ photos per minute
~ 48 hours of video uploaded
every minute

26. The internet is a dangerous place?

29. Anonymity
Invisibility
Stop/start communication
Voices in your head
Imaginary world
No police

30. Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyer
writer, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter

31. Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyer
writer, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter

32. Technology & Community & Openness
Dan Meyer
writer, speaker, learner, worker, go-getter
But blogging was the cheapest, most risk-free investment I could
have made of my personal time into my job. You start by writing down
things that are interesting to you, practices you don’t want to forget.
And then you start trying new things just so you can blog about them
later, picking them apart, and dialoging over them with strangers.
Periods of stagnancy in your blogging start to correspond to periods
of stagnancy in your teaching. You start to muse on your job when
you’re stuck in traffic, in line for groceries, that sort of thing. That

33. Siyavula Badges

34. A simple introduction to:
Social Media and Blogs

35. Create a gmail account (if you don't have one)
Create a Twitter account (if you don't have one)
Follow:
Participants
Educators
Wildcards

36. www.gmail.com 1
2
3
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37. Passwords
Long – take a phrase and concatenate it
Complicated – mix CaSe, numb3rs, characters!
Write them DOWN!
Better to write down a hard password than make
an easy one ...

38. www.twitter.com
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39. Follow the tutorial
1
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ddmeyer
PsyBlog
timoreilly
alexmolteno
siyavula
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40. Follow the tutorial
1
2
ddmeyer
PsyBlog
timoreilly
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3

43. Our Work
Support
communities
and conduct
professional
development

44. Siyavula Badges

45. Laying the Foundation for
Significant Change
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49. Our Work
Increase the
library of openly
shared resources
(OERs)

50. www.siyavula.com

51. Curriculum-aligned
Collaboratively
authored
Openly-licensed
For ALL learners

53. Citizen Cyberscience!

54. Citizen Cyberscience!

55. Local Interest

56. www.siyavula.com