Comments:GeoGebra Community Newsletter 2012/2
Dear Members of GeoGebra Institutes,
GeoGebra 10 Years Logo Contest Winners
Our heartfelt congratulations to Mehdi Boulifa, GeoGebra Institute of ATEPS, Tunisia who won first prize on our 10 years anniversary logo contest!
I am also delighted to tell you that the second prize went to Natalia Gonera, Poland:
The third place has also been won by our incredibly creative Tunisian friend Mehdi Boulifa:
Our first three contestants won fantastic GeoGebra prizes!
Let me also thank all of You who participated in either creating or voting for the wonderful 10years GeoGebra logos.
What you can do: Watch out for upcoming new "GeoGebra 10 years" contest calls and participate!
GeoGebra Institute Websites
We are delighted 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 KSTM, Korea [1]
• GeoGebra Institute of Sao Paulo, Brasil [2]
What you can do: Get inspired! Create your own GI website and let us know about it! E-mail Institutes Once you have your own site, do not forget to update it with information to serve your local community!
GeoGebra Ambassadors
Please welcome our four new GeoGebra Ambassadors, who have done a lot for our community:
- Juan Pablo Echeverría, Costa Rica
- Steve Phelps, Chair, GeoGebra Institute of Ohio, USA
- Sanjay Gulati, India
- Guillermo P. Bautista, Chair, GeoGebra Institute of Metro Manila, The Philippines
Read brief interviews with our new Ambassadors talking about GeoGebra: http://blog.geogebra.org/2012/07/geogebra-ambassadors/
What you can do: Talk about, teach, spread GeoGebra!Network, go to conferences, help establish new GeoGebra! We will recognize the efforts of the members of our community who have been the most active, by naming them GeoGebra Ambassadors. You can also nominate someone you know and think should deserve it to become a GG Ambassador. Send your suggestions to community@geogebra.org
Blogs and Social Media
- Our 19 year old Google Summer of Code student Damien Desfontaines makes theorems proven in no time! Read Zoltán Kovács's account on the GeoGebra blog:
http://blog.geogebra.org/2012/07/19-and-makes-theorems-proven/
What you can do: Post, discuss, share online your experiences 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 Click here to submit a page
If you tweet about a conference please use the #ggbconf hashtag.
Translation Issues
The GeoGebra software is currently available in 60 languages, however there are a few translations still missing like Thai, Afrikaans, Filipino etc.
What you can do:Do your students understand everything? If GeoGebra is not available in your local language, please work with us to find volunteer translators and make GeoGebra accessible for everyone. E-mail Translation
Conferences and Workshops
What you can do:
1, Please attend and also take a minute to let others know about our events!
2, Have we missed your event? If yes, please upload information
here
3, It is our goal that GeoGebra appear in every important math or IT related conference.We are maintaining a list of such potential conferences here. Please attend where you can and spread the word about GeoGebra!
If you know about a potential conference where GeoGebra should be present please upload information here
If you need assistance with organizing a conference/workshop please e-mail us.E-mail Events
Publications and Research Activities
- New book on GeoGebra! Learning GeoGebra with examples (practice) (따라하며 배우는 지오지브라) by Kyeong Choi, published on the day of GeoGebra Conference pre-ICME 2012.
What you can do: Please let us know if you do any GeoGebra related research activities (writing an article, study, manual, lesson plans etc.) by uploading information here or if it is more convenient by filling out a form here
GeoGebra Worksheets
We are working on new features of the GeoGebra tube[3], so that it will be even more useful!
What you can do: Please keep on uploading fantastic materials! We will include some of the most impressive ones in our newsletters.
New GeoGebra Institutes
We would like to hereby welcome our new GeoGebra Institutes!
What you can do: Help us extend the GI network! Please tell us if you know anyone who would be willing to establish a GeoGebra Instiute. E-mail Institutes
Thank you for your attention!
The IGI GeoGebra Team
