GeoGebra Institute:2012 Annual Report GI Medellin
Presentation
The GeoGebra Institute of Medellin (Colombia) (IGM) was established on September 17, 2010, with the authorization of GeoGebra funder, Dr. Markus Hohenwarter. The IGM was created by a group of mathematics teachers of the Faculty of Basic Sciences of Instituto Tecnologico Metropolitano (Metropolitan Institute of Technology), in Medellin, Colombia.
Web page
http://geogebra.itm.edu.co/index.html
People
- Francisco Javier Córdoba Gómez (Chair)
- Juan Guillermo Rivera Berrio
- Juan Guillermo Arango Arango
- Elkin Alberto Castrillon Jimenez
- Hector Javier Herrera Mejía
- Carlos Mario Restrepo Restrepo
- Jhon Jairo Garcia Mora
- Carlos Alberto Rojas Hincapié
Training and Support
- Training of aprox. 60 teachers between secondary and primary level from Medellin city.
- Training of aprox. 100 students of first and second semester of technology and engineering at Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano.
- Article reviewer for the North American GeoGebra Journal, 2013 (http://www.ggbmidwest.com/ojs-2.3.4/index.php/ggbj/index), by Francisco Javier Córdoba Gómez
Development and Sharing
The principal activity of IGM during 2012 was the organization of Latin-American GeoGebra Conference Columbia 2012 (2-4 Aug 2012 in Medellin, Colombia). At this event assisted aprox. 350 teachers of university, secondary and primary levels; there were aprox. 23 workshop, 21 short conferences, 4 central conferences. People came from México, Costa Rica, Brazil, Uruguay and Spain
Additional activities of the IGM and its members were directed to participate in various events:
- International Congress of Training and Modeling in Basic Sciences. Universidad de Medellín (University of Medellin), May 9-11, 2012, Medellin. The members of IGM presented: four workshop, one short conference
- Latin-American GeoGebra Conference Columbia 2012. Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (Metropolitan Institute of Technology), 2-4 Aug 2012 in Medellin, Colombia. The members of IGM presented: eight workshop, eight short conferences
- Vinculation of private Universidad de Medellin (University of Medellin) as a corporative member in order to develop training process and research projects.
Publications
Proceedings of Latin-American GeoGebra Conference Columbia 2012 (2-4 Aug 2012 in Medellin, Colombia, in press) with the full text of workshops and short and central conferences.
