Update: Siyavula's first Teachers' Weekend

Our friends at Siyavula have written up an interesting and exciting piece about their first Teachers' Weekend workshop. Participating teachers were trained to use the Connexions platform to upload and share their respective curriculum for grades 1 through 9. From the article:

We are almost finished with the uploading of English and Afrikaans content for all learning areas for grades 1-9 (you can see it here) and we felt that enough had been done to start getting teachers involved on a large scale. So we jumped right in with a weekend workshop for teachers. We had a great turnout and we had to turn away many enquiries for participation in the weeks leading up to the event. A total of 70 teachers eventually participated in the weekend.

The objective of the weekend was to:

• show the power of the Connexions platform for using, building, sharing and adapting resources;
• promote the formation of new communities forming that use Connexions as a use to support their activities and provide the possibility of for new communities to form; and
• provide an environment that can enhance existing communities or swap and share groups.

Congratulations to Siyavula for a job well done!