Comments:GeoGebra Community Newsletter 2012/1

Dear Members of the GeoGebra Community,

Firstly, let us express our highest appreciation for the wonderful work that you have been doing with GeoGebra! From now on we would like to devote extra time and attention to assist your work and strengthen the continuously expanding GeoGebra community. In order to facilitate communication, we have created this internal newsletter. It has a double aim: on the one hand we would like to use it for providing you with interesting news from the GeoGebra world and on the other hand we would like to kindly ask you to provide us with information about your activities. Let's share and learn from each other!

Questionnaire

In order to have a better knowledge about your needs, we are doing a short research among GeoGebra Institute members. Please let us know how we can help you, by filling in this short questionnaire(it takes 4 minutes): <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/a/geogebra.at/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dFpqdnE0YnF5NEFGamZxTm14eHJ6M0E6MQ" width="760" height="1464" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Betöltés...</iframe>

GeoGebra Institute Websites

We are happy to see that so many of you have created beautiful and unique websites for your GeoGebra Institutes. In each newsletter we will present a few of those sites that have captured our attention.

• GeoGebra Institute of Tehran, Iran [1]
• GeoGebra Institute of California [2]

What you can do: Get inspired! Create your own GI website and let us know about it! E-mail Institutes

Local Activities

• Steve Phelps and friends having fun on their journey to 3D GeoGebra world:

• The GeoGebra Institute of Kerala India has awarded a title "GeoGebra ambassador" to a talented young student Lakhsmi HariKumar who will promote and teach GeoGebra in her school, district, state and abroad[3]
• The FMSP is running an online Geogebra for A level Maths course this summer [4]. You can find more information here[5]
Deadline for applications is Friday, 11th of May, 2012.

What you can do: Submit fun photos, videos or articles about your GeoGebra related activities (GG trainings, days, excursions, contests etc). We will include the best pieces in our upcoming community newsletter!

Blogs and Social Media

• The blog of our 16 year old Italian friends who have written a 350 pages book on their GeoGebra research[6]
• The math and multimedia blog of Guillermo Bautista at the GeoGebra Institute of Metro Manila[7]
• New facebook page, designed to help, to promote, to discuss and to share what people of Central America and The Caribbean do with GeoGebra. [8]

What you can do: Post, discuss, share online your experience with GeoGebra! Start a blog, a facebook, twitter, google+ page or just simply share with us any interesting pages you find about GeoGebra on the worldwide web.

Translation Issues

The GeoGebra software is currently available in ... languages.

What you can do:Do your students understand everything? If GeoGebra is not available in your language let us know and help finding translators.

Conferences and Workshops

International:

• We are hoping that you will be able to attend the International GeoGebra pre-conference before the ICME Congress in Seoul, Korea on 8 July: [9] If you plan to attend please register as early as possible, because we can accommodate maximum 100 people in the room.
• However, if you miss that you can still catch up at the International GeoGebra Institute Conference 2012 in Warsaw, Poland on 21 Sep 2012 to Sun 23 Sep 2012 .[10]

Regional and Local:

May

• Verkoston kokous Oulussa 4.5.12 4 May 2012 Oulu University, Finland
• Tavaszi Szél Konferencia 17 May 2012 to Sun 20 May 2012 Győr, Hungary
• GeoGebra Conference and Workshop.GI Maine 2012 on 23 May 2012 in Biddeford, Maine, US
• GeoGebra Day Portugal - Annual Meeting on 26 May in Porto, Portugal
• 7th Annual Conference in Mathematics and Statistics Service Teaching and Learning 28 May 2012 to Tue 29 May 2012 Maynooth, Ireland [11]

Jun

• Midwest Regional GeoGebra Conference 2012 on 11-12 Jun 2012 in Oxford OH, US

Jul

• IGGCW-Miskolc-2012 International GeoGebra Conference on 6-9 Jul 2012 in Miskolc, Hungary
• 3rd Northamerica GeoGebra Conference on 25-28 July 2012 in Mexico

What you can do:

1, Please participate whenever you can!
2, Have we missed your event? If yes, please upload information here:
3, We would like that GeoGebra appear in every important math or IT related conference.We are maintaining a list of such potential conferences here.[12]. Please attend where you can and spread the word about GeoGebra!

If you need help with organizing a conference/workshop please e-mail us.E-mail Events

Research and Manuals

• A laboratory guide[13]
• Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012 and looking for funding so that the GeoGebra Midwest Conference can be free for participants.

Applications

Some creative examples of what you can do with GeoGebra:

• Caffeine in your body[14]
• Myles shrinking cycle[15]
• Simple model of carrying capacity and population growth[16]
• Hit of Billiard Balls[17]
• Binary clock[18]

We are working on new features of the GeoGebra tube[19], so that it will be even more useful!
What you can do: Please keep on uploading fantastic materials!

Thank you for your attention!