Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2012-06

GeoGebra Blog & Conference

• Official GeoGebra Blog started. This blog on GeoGebra is trying to provide a broad look at what’s happening in the GeoGebra community – everything from news to events to GeoGebra tips & tricks all in one place. Expect cross-postings from the great blogs out in our community and a chance to hear more from the people behind GeoGebra as well.
• Ten Years of GeoGebra Contest
• The registration is open for our big GeoGebra Conference 2012, 21-23 September in Warsaw, Poland. Join us to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GeoGebra and share your ideas with other members of the community!

Development News

• New GeoGebra Chrome App Beta version released! This GeoGebra version runs on Chromebooks and other devices without Java. We will continue to add more features over the next months.
• GeoGebra 4.2 development is making good progress with lots of improvments to the CAS and many new commands.

Articles & Materials

• Midwest GeoGebra Journal with new articles, activities, and sketches on GeoGebra. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in 2012.

Some nice resources on GeoGebra:

• Sześcio-ośmiościan rombowy mały-wersja kolorowa
• Telling time from clocks
• Ataque
• Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment
• Pink Panther
• Angry Birds
• Shellfish and crustaceans
• Demo for iPad: Visualisation of Fraction Multiplication
• Tower City Parabolas
• Rotated fluids generating a paraboloid
• The Cycloid Equations
• Logistical Chaos
• Psychédélisme

GeoGebra in the Media

• Jeff Patmore's blog on GeoGebra: A Picture of Maths
• Reportagem da jornalista Tory Oliveira para a Revista Carta na Escola
• Mag Pi
• Los docentes aprenden fórmulas motivadoras para la enseñanza de las matemáticas
• iQB 6.0
• Szeged, GeoGebra and the Cambridge Centre for Innovation in Technological Education
• The theorem of the Emperor
• Little GeoGebra movie
• Connect Equality Program

New GeoGebra Institutes

• GeoGebra Institute of Iowa, US
• GeoGebra Institute of Education, UMCE, Chile
• GeoGebra Institute of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

More GeoGebra Conferences

• The International GeoGebra Institute Conference 2012will be held in Warsaw, Poland on 21-23 September, 2012.
• GeoGebra ICME Pre-conference 2012 in Seoul, Korea on Sunday, 8 July, 2012, just one day before ICME 2012. Please register soon as we can only accommodate 100 people.
• Midwest Regional GeoGebra Conference 2012 on 11-12 Jun 2012 in Oxford OH, US
• 3rd North-America GeoGebra Conference 2012 in Mexico on 25-28 July 2012. Submission of proposals until 25 May.
• Latin-American GeoGebra Conference 2012 in Medellin, Columbia on 2-4 Aug 2012

Future Events

See our Events Map & Calendar and the GeoGebra Conference 2012 Wiki for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences. June

• Jun 7: The Eighth International Mathematics Festival at National University of Liberia, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• Jun 11-12: Midwest Regional Conference of GeoGebra 2012 at Miami University, Oxford OH, US
• Jun 18: GeoGebra workshop at Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• Jun 20-21: GeoGebra at GVSU Gatherings) at Grand Valley State University Regional Math and Science Center, Michigan, US
• Jun 21: CAME in Novi-Sad, Serbia
• Jun 21-23: 4th European Conference on Computer Sciences and Applications in Timisoara, Romania
• Jun 22-24: CADGME 2012 in Novi Sad, Serbia
• Jun 25-27: Introductory GeoGebra workshop at Berkeley Unified Schools District, Berkeley, CA, US
• Jun 28-30: MEI 2012, at University of Keele, UK

July

• Jul 2-8: Milset Expo-Sciences Europe 2012 (with GeoGebra programme by Mascheroni CAD Team) in Tula, Russia
• Jul 4: Introducing and using Geogebra in Manchester, UK
• Jul 4-6: Developments in Computer Algebra Research 2012 in Tokyo, Japan
• Jul 6-9: IGGCW-Miskolc-2012 (International GeoGebra Conference and Workshop) in Miskolc, Hungary
• Jul 8: GeoGebra ICME Pre-conference 2012 in Seoul, Korea
• Jul 9-12: TSM 2012 in Oundle, Peterborough UK
• Jul 12: Introducing and using Geogebra in Liverpool, UK
• Jul 25-28: 3rd Northamerica GeoGebra Conference in Mexico
• Jul 30-Aug 3: Key Concepts, Fundamental Ideas and Core Awarenesses in Mathematics in Oxfordshire, UK

Other Conferences and Dates

We are maintaining a list of conferences in which it would be helpful if you could represent GeoGebra.

Contact

If you have news for our next newsletter, please let us know at events@geogebra.org.

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