GeoGebra Institute:2012 Annual Report GI Timisoara, Romania

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People

Assist. prof. Alexandra Fortiș (chairman of the GI Timișoara, Romania)

Prof. Valerian Antohe (co-chair of the GI Timișoara, Romania)

Training and Support

The host institution of GI Timisoara, Romania: "Tibiscus" University is implementing a project with cofunding from the Social European Fund through Sectorial Operational Programme Human Resources Development, 2007-2013 (POSDRU/87/1.3/S/62626). The amount of money allocated to this project was 1.1 million Euros, for 30 months implementation stage. Information on this project can be found at http://www.cptm.tibiscus.ro/ (in Romanian) A training center in multimedia teaching techniques was created and a GeoGebra training practical course of 12 hours was included. During the last year, around 400 pre-university level teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, technologies, economy, and even modern languages from the West and North-West regions of Romania were trained and obtained their GeoGebra certificates.

Publications

1. Valerian Antohe - GeoGebra in the Context of the IT Surrounding Environment 2. Alexandra Emilia Fortiş, Viorica Bogdan, Florina Petrea - Educational Resources for primary Classes with GeoGebra, 4th edition of International Simposium on "Education and New Technologies in Euroregion", Smart Kids 2012, Timişoara 3. Valerian Antohe - GeoGebra in the Context of the IT Surrounding Environment and Curriculum, GeoGebra International Journal of Romania, Vol.2 No.2 4. Adriana Bînzar - Geogebra, a useful tool for achieving school progress, GeoGebra International Journal of Romania, Vol.2 No.2