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FHSST | Mark Horner
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All posts in 'FHSST'. My OER Journey, 11 Years & Counting. Posted on August 2nd, 2013. Today marks 11 years, to the day, since we started the hair-brained scheme to collaboratively author, openly-licensed textbooks for South Africa under the banner of the Free High School Science Texts. This ultimately led to Siyavula Education‘s existence with a lot of help from the Shuttleworth Foundation and PSG Financial. Posted on July 21st, 2012. Posted on May 6th, 2011. FHSST Editing Sprint Review. Edited the FHSS...
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What happened to the last 5 months! | Mark Horner
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What happened to the last 5 months! What happened to the last 5 months! Posted on December 5, 2011. Posted in SF Fellow. Wow, it has been way too long. I hope those of you worried about whether or not any progress has been made have been following me ( marknewlyn. We’ve been very busy and achieved what many, even I, thought impossible! Openly-licensed, Siyavula textbooks are being printed and distributed by the Department of Basic Education (DBE). Mathematics Grade 10 (aligned with CAPS). This is a signi...
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Producing a slate of openly-licensed titles | Mark Horner
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Producing a slate of openly-licensed titles. Producing a slate of openly-licensed titles. Posted on August 12, 2013. In my previous post. I alluded to 45 titles that we’d like to produce. That’s too strong because we wouldn’t be able to take credit for having worked on all of them so it’s actually the 45 openly-licensed titles we plan on ensuring get developed in the next 2.5 years. The list of titles we are currently involved in developing is:. Life Sciences Grade 10 [Sponsor: Vodacom Foundation. Grade ...
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OpenPress | Mark Horner
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All posts in 'OpenPress'. Posted on June 8th, 2010. We're back in the groove with OpenPress right now, working on the information website and printing some sample books. Read about the site and aggregation process in this post. Doing OpenPress By Hand. Posted on October 20th, 2009. We are going to run a full manual aggregation process to test and demonstrate the process we envisage for the OpenPress web-service. Eskom CEO Brian Molefe claims nuclear energy is the cheapest option for #SouthAfrica.
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Bio | Mark Horner
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Education (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town (December 2011 – Present). Fellow: Open and Collaborative Resources, Cape Town (Jan 2010 – Feb 2012). Project Manager, Shuttleworth Foundation,. Cape Town (Oct 2007 – December 2009). Physics Research Officer, Centre for High Performance Computing. Rosebank, Cape Town (Jun – Sep 2007). PhD Nuclear Physics, University of Cape Town (UCT). Rondebosch, South Africa 2007, hosted by LBNL. MSc Experimental Physics, UCT, Rondebosch, South Africa 2002. RESEARCH INTERESTS AND PROJECTS.
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Community-driven IEB Physics and Chemistry books | Mark Horner
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Community-driven IEB Physics and Chemistry books. Community-driven IEB Physics and Chemistry books. Posted on August 21, 2013. We are currently engaged in a collaboration with a group of Physical Sciences educators and the OERPub. In Johannesburg, the school whose science department is driving the community effort. This is particularly exciting for me for a number of reasons:. The community of educators initiated the process;. We are testing (and intend to use) the OERPub editor and Github. We have run m...
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Siyavula, a social enterprise | Mark Horner
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Siyavula, a social enterprise. Siyavula, a social enterprise. Posted on August 8, 2012. The big news from our perspective is that my Shuttleworth Foundation (SF). Fellowship ended at the end of February 2012. A particularly exciting feature of SF Fellowships is that Fellows have the opportunity to take projects, and the associated intellectual property, with them when they leave. I had the opportunity to take Siyavula. And do something more with it. In partnership with Neels van der Westhuizen. 8220;A so...
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South Africa | Mark Horner
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All posts in 'South Africa'. South Africa needs an open-access education journal. Posted on August 6th, 2014. I’m generally a big fan of the Open Access movement. I really feel like we’re all just different manifestations of a global movement toward greater openness, transparency and community that is sweeping the world. The transformation is far from complete but there is a lot happening, some of my favourite. Prototype of Grade 10 rework revisited. Posted on July 3rd, 2014. Posted on August 12th, 2013.
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Personal | Mark Horner
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All posts in 'Personal'. My OER Journey, 11 Years & Counting. Posted on August 2nd, 2013. Today marks 11 years, to the day, since we started the hair-brained scheme to collaboratively author, openly-licensed textbooks for South Africa under the banner of the Free High School Science Texts. This ultimately led to Siyavula Education‘s existence with a lot of help from the Shuttleworth Foundation and PSG Financial. The DSTV Bouquets I Want. Posted on May 5th, 2010. Posted on November 10th, 2009. Posted on O...
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Prototype of Grade 10 rework revisited | Mark Horner
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Prototype of Grade 10 rework revisited. Prototype of Grade 10 rework revisited. Posted on July 3, 2014. In my last blog post. From way too long ago, I described a plan for a prototype of the process for reworking our Grade 10 textbooks taking community feedback into account. I wanted to revisit that process as well as tell you about implementing a comprehensive rework of our Everything Maths Grade 10. Prototype of rework process. Getting over 300 comments on a few pages might seem horrific, especially if...
