Difference between revisions of "Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2011-12"

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We have fixed some bugs and improved the translations in GeoGebra 4 so if you have the installed or portable version, you may want to upgrade to 4.0.15.0
Also 4.0.15.0 has an enhancement to the Translation Tool - you can just drag to clone an object!
GeoGebra 4.2 Beta now has a Freehand Tool so that you can draw your own function and then look at function transformations eg f(2x) and we're working hard on improving the CAS View. There are also some new commands to try (eg TriangleCenter, TriangleCubic, Barycenter, SurdText).
Now that GeoGebra 4 has been released, we have started in earnest on the programming work needed for the HTML5 version of GeoGebra for tablets GeoGebraWeb. Progress is good and there should be some visible results Q1 next year.
The new online translation app is now ready for our translators to use. For our users this will result in more accurate, faster translations (as it does some automatic checking and is much quicker and easier to use than the old system).
GeoGebra 5 Beta has some improvements (eg angles) and new commands (eg Cube, Octahedron).
For network administrators, we now have an MSI Installer for GeoGebra 4 available for testing

Book on GeoGebra: Model-centered learning: Pathways to Mathematical Understanding Using GeoGebra, Lingguo Bu & Robert Schoen (Eds.), Sense Publisher
Book on GeoGebra: HUELLAS MATEMÁTICA, written by Fernando Chorny, Pablo Casares & Claudio Salpeter, coordinated & supervised by Nora Legorboru & Ruth Schaposchnik
Book on GeoGebra: "La Nuova Geometria del Compasso", Le costruzioni di Lorenzo Mascheroni utilizzando il software GeoGebra, written by F. Fabrizi & P. Pennestrì, coordinated by Prof.ssa Noemi Stivali
Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012 and looking for funding so that the GeoGebra Midwest Conference can be free for participants

See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences.

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Jan 2012

Deadline for Submission of proposals for Posters and Exhibition to IPC chair for ICME 2012 is December 15, 2011
Deadline for Paper submission deadline for Spring International Conference on Engineering Education in Xi'an, China, May 26-29, 2012 is January 15, 2012
SIGMAA on RUME in Portland, Oregon, US, February 23-25, 2012
TIME2012 (Technology and its Integration in Mathematics Education), July 10-14, 2012 in Tartu, Estonia, Contact: Josef Böhm

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

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 == Development News ==
-* We have fixed some bugs and improved the translations in GeoGebra 4 so if you have the [http://www.geogebra.org/installers installed] or [http://www.geogebra.org/portable portable] version, you may want to upgrade to 4.0.14.0
+* We have fixed some bugs and improved the translations in GeoGebra 4 so if you have the [http://www.geogebra.org/installers installed] or [http://www.geogebra.org/portable portable] version, you may want to upgrade to 4.0.15.0
+* Also 4.0.15.0 has an enhancement to the [http://wiki.geogebra.org/en/Translate_Object_by_Vector_Tool Translation Tool] - '''you can just drag to clone an object!'''
 * [http://wiki.geogebra.org/en/Release_Notes_GeoGebra_4.2 GeoGebra 4.2 Beta] now has a '''Freehand Tool''' so that you can draw your own function and then look at function transformations eg f(2x) and we're working hard on improving the CAS View. There are also some new commands to try (eg TriangleCenter, TriangleCubic, Barycenter, SurdText).
 * Now that GeoGebra 4 has been released, we have started in earnest on the programming work needed for the HTML5 version of GeoGebra for tablets '''GeoGebraWeb'''. Progress is good and there should be some visible results Q1 next year.