Siyavula supports communities of educators working together in South Africa. One way in which we believe this could be better achieved is through openly sharing content. We have recently run workshops in Johannesburg and Cape Town for educators to show them new and exciting ways connect, share with 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. Skills 1 Recap:
Create a gmail account
Create a twitter account
Follow some interesting people
Siyavula's purpose: help you develop an
appreciation for blogs and the feedback they get.
Benefit for you: passive consumption of great
content and ideas.

15. Skills 2 Recap:
Create a Wordpress blog
Theme your blog
Link it to your twitter account
Siyavula's purpose: help you begin to author
content and enage with your peers online.
Benefit for you: authoring content distills ideas,
feedback drives enhancement and innovation.

16. Skills 3 Recap:
Identify most prevalent open copyright licences
Find openly licensed resources to build on
Siyavula's purpose: build on the existing pool of
resources by contextualising and adapting them
for the South African context.
Benefit for you: be more effective at leveraging
existing teaching resources.

17. Skills 4 Plan:
Demonstrate places to share and build resources
Siyavula's purpose: increase the pool of openly
shared resources.
Benefit for you: tool you can use for your own
communities of practice to develop and share,
locally, nationally and globally.

18. Our ultimate goal:
A community of educators confident and
comfortable to author, review and openly share
content online.

19. Authoring online ….
is surprisingly challenging ...

20. www.creativecommons.org

21. By attribution Share-alike
No derivatives Non-commercial
Closed Open
www.creativecommons.org

22. By attribution Share-alike
No derivatives Non-commercial

23. Authoring online ….
Single author resources
Collaboratively authored resources
Collaboratively authored books

24. Authoring online ….
Single author resources
http://community.siyavula.com

25. Authoring online ….
Collaboratively authored resources
Google Docs
bridget@siyavula.com

26. Authoring online ….
Collaboratively authored books
http://booktype.siyavula.com

27. Our ultimate goal:
A community of educators confident and
comfortable to author, review and openly share
content online.
Everyone benefits!

29. www.siyavula.com