[FM Discuss] help friends to make free textbooks

[adam]

hi,

siyavula is very much a fm buddy. please consider helping them proof 
their textbooks. text below, write to
bridget at siyavula.com


Dear Adam

In my last email to you I mentioned that we would soon be asking for 
help with proofing our workbooks. Well, in the next week we will be 
starting our major online proofread and edit of our workbooks and 
textbooks, followed by their full translation into Afrikaans.

This process will happen on a chapter by chapter basis, so that they're 
manageable chunks for volunteers to review, as we understand that 
volunteers have limited time to assist us! We will do all this online - 
we will give volunteers access to the Google Docs, or point them at an 
annotation website, which has tools to make comments and suggestions on 
the text. At the moment we are finalising our books one chapter at a 
time and will be releasing them for review. We do have a deadline for 
this, so each chapter will be up for one week, before we lock it down 
and implement the suggested changes.

If you are interested in participating please let me know the following:

1) Would you like to help proofread the Natural Sciences workbooks?  Do 
you know of someone that could help with any of these others? (checking 
for factual and content errors, misconceptions, rephrasing for better 
understanding, checking for consistency, grammatical and spelling errors 
etc):
Grade 11 Maths
Grade 11 Physics
Grade 11 Chemistry
Grade 10 Life Sciences
Grade 10 Maths Literacy
2) Are you (or someone) able to help with translation into Afrikaans of 
our workbooks or any of these textbooks?

Once we have chapters ready I will email you an assignment, along with 
all the information on how to go about this online. Please note that the 
books are all at varying levels of completion so some still require a 
few weeks before they will be ready for proofing (e.g.Maths Lit).

I look forward to hearing back from you!

Kind regards
Bridget

Bridget Nash
Community Coordinator
021 469 4771

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