We’re on a mission to get the FHSST books completely proof-read by next week. We were doing a lot manually which required people be in Cape Town if they wanted to help out but we’ve since uploaded the books to a.nnotate.com where anyone in the world can browse and annotate errors etc. so you can help from anywhere you have an internet connection.
We’d still like to coordinate efforts to make sure we cover all chapters well. Volunteer editors should email Bridget Nash [ bridget AT siyavula DOT org DOT za ] to find out where we’re still a bit thin.
Here are the links to take a look – but please coordinate with Bridget if you’re going to contribute:
Physical Science Grade 12 on Annotate.com
Physical Science Grade 11 on Annotate.com
Physical Science Grade 10 on Annotate.com
Mathematics Grade 12 on Annotate.com
- Website:
- Free High School Science Texts
- Started:
- October 2002
- Role:
- Co-founder
FHSST (Free High School Science Texts) is a project that aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa.
I co-founded this project with Sam Halliday. Our intitial objective was to work with other graduate students at the University of Cape Town to collaboratively author the textbooks. Ultimately, the pool of volunteers was much larger and the first version of the books are available from the project website.
In the interests of openness we've written a how-to with all our learnings for you to download. It complements the great case study of FHSST completed by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME).
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