Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2010-7
Development News
GeoGebra is part of Google Summer of Code 2010. This means that Google supports 5 students to work on GeoGebra coding projects this summer. We will soon be finalizing the features of the future version GeoGebra 4.0, so now is an excellent time to make suggestions in our user forum. Get GeoGebra 3.2.44.0 with lots of bugfixes and several new features:
- New applet export where you only get one single html file
- New point styles (plus, diamond, triangles)
- Options -> Algebra -> [ Value | Definition | Command ] changes how objects are displayed in the Spreadsheet and Algebra Views
- \\n inserts a line break in texts, e.g. Text["GeoGebra\\nRocks",(3,4)]
- Export to Google Gadget and MediaWiki
- 4 new languages: Albanian, Tamil, Thai, Sinhala taking us to 51 languages
New Institutes
in order of establishment since February 2010:
- GeoGebra Institute of Novi Sad, Serbia
- GeoGebra Institute of Louisiana, USA
- GeoGebra Institute of California, USA
- GeoGebra Institute of Finland
- GeoGebra Institute of South Florida, USA
- GeoGebra Institute of Madrid, Spain
- GeoGebra Institute of Malaysia
- GeoGebra Institute of Croatia
- GeoGebra Institute of Turin, Italy
- GeoGebra Institute of Iceland
- GeoGebra Institute of Estonia
- GeoGebra Institute of Flanders, Belgium
- GeoGebra Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine
- GeoGebra Institute of Sydney, Australia
Tutorials
- GeoGebra step-by-step tutorial series made by Guillermo P. Bautista Jr.
- GeoGebraChannel on Youtube
Past Events
- Eurasia Meeting of GeoGebra in Istanbul, Turkey from 11 to 13 May
- GeoGebra Workshops at VI Ibero-American Meeting on Cooperation on ICT in Education, Mexico City - from 7 to June 11, 2010
- Workshops addressed on 'The use of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) in education to guide innovation activities' the University of Cantabria, Spain from 21 to 24 June
- GeoGebraCAS presentation at USACAS on 26 June at Northfield, IL
- GeoGebra workshops at CADGME, Ceske Budejovice – 30th June 2010
- GeoGebra Day at the MEI conference Sat., July 3rd – Reading, Berkshire
- GeoGebra Workshop in Krems, Austria - 6 July 2010
- Mathematics Subject Conference Day in Plymouth, UK - 9 Jul 2010
- Online MAA GeoGebra Workshop (through MAA PREP Program) – from 19 to 23 July 2010
- Formation Meeting - GeoGebra Group (Birmingham, UK) on 20 July
- North American GeoGebra Conference on July 27-28 in Ithaca, NY
Future events
See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences. August
- 6th International Conference on "Creativity in Mathematics Education and the Education of Gifted Students" in Riga, Latvia 1-5 August
- HighAIMS GeoGebra Workshop at Monroe High School, Monore, OH, USA from 2 to 6 August 2010
- Teaching design with GeoGebra Workshop in Taiwan from 2 to 3 August 2010
- GeoGebra for Beginners Part 2, Sydney, Australia on 4 August 2010
- MAA GeoGebra minicourse at Pittsburgh, PA, USA on 5 to 7 August 2010
- the first Nordic GeoGebra Conference to be held in Reykjavík, Iceland August 12-14, 2010
- MathPAD 2010 conference in Poland on 16-19 August 2010
- Teaching design with GeoGebra & JavaScript in Taiwan on 16-17 August
- The Fifth East Asia Regional Conference in Mathematics Education (EARCOME-5) will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on 18-22 August 2010
September
- GeoGebra workshops for beginners and advance users will be held by NGO Normala, Zagreb, Croatia (1-2 September 2010)
- 7th International Conference on Applied Mathenatics at Baia Mare, Romania on September 1-4, 2010
- ProfMat 2010 - Aveiro Portugal on 2-4 September 2010, National Mathematics Teacher Meeting including workshops with GeoGebra
- GeoGebra workshops at MSEC, Salamanca, Spain (September 9-11, 2010)
- 1st Polish GeoGebra Conference on 18 Sep 2010, Warsaw
November
- The annual International Schools Mathematics Teachers Foundation (ISMTF) teachers’ conference is to be held November 26-28, 2010 at the International School of Aberdeen, Scotland. Both Michael Borcherds and Zsolt Lavicza from the International GeoGebra Institute will be speaking on using GeoGebra for the IB Portfolio Tasks, the future of GeoGebra and demonstrating GeoGebra 4.0 and GeoGebra 3D.
Awards
GeoGebra will receive the National Technology Leadership Award 2010 this September in Washington D.C., USA, by the National Technology Leadership Coalition
Grants
- Grant for the Nordic GeoGebra Network: The Nordic GeoGebra Institutes have received a 3-year grant from the Nordplus Framework Programme to support teachers and to organise yearly conferences.
- GeoGebra Summer of Code 2010 supported by Google
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