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== Community News == | == Community News == | ||
*Support the [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geogebra/geogebra-for-the-ipad?ref=live GeoGebra for the iPad Project]! | *Support the [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/geogebra/geogebra-for-the-ipad?ref=live GeoGebra for the iPad Project]! | ||
| − | * | + | * [http://www.geogebraigi2012.pl GeoGebra Conference 2012], 21-23 September in Warsaw, Poland. |
| − | * | + | * pre-ATCM |
| + | *San José | ||
* Meet the GeoGebra Ambassadors on [http://blog.geogebra.org/ Official GeoGebra Blog]: [http://blog.geogebra.org/2012/07/geogebra-ambassadors-4/ Juan Pablo Echeverría], Costa Rica | * Meet the GeoGebra Ambassadors on [http://blog.geogebra.org/ Official GeoGebra Blog]: [http://blog.geogebra.org/2012/07/geogebra-ambassadors-4/ Juan Pablo Echeverría], Costa Rica | ||
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Community News
- Support the GeoGebra for the iPad Project!
- GeoGebra Conference 2012, 21-23 September in Warsaw, Poland.
- pre-ATCM
- San José
- Meet the GeoGebra Ambassadors on Official GeoGebra Blog: Juan Pablo Echeverría, Costa Rica
What you can do:
- Talk about, teach, spread GeoGebra! Network, go to conferences, help establish new GeoGebra Institutes! 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!
- 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.
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.
We are working on new features of the GeoGebra tube, so that it will be even more useful!
Some nice resources on GeoGebra:
- Dynamic Polar Plotter
- Section d'un pavé droit
- Potential energy
- Site de figures GeoGebra
- Surface Area for Cuboid
- Exponential Growth or Decay?
- 3D Coordinate Axes in Geogebra
- Escalator. Inspired by a Twitter problem posed by Bowman Dickson
- Circle proportions simulation
- Rubber Pencil Illusion
- Elliptic Orbit. Proof of Kepler's 1st Law by using Newton's Law of Gravity and Kepler's 2nd law
- Logarithmic Spiral
- Dilations
- Temperature and relative numbers
- Harmonisk svängning
- Der Differenzenquotient
and form other sites:
- GeoGebra applets from Croatia
- Irina Boyadzhiev's website with many GeoGebra applets
- Graphic Statics in GeoGebra from Lukas Ballo
What you can do: Please keep on uploading materials! We will include some of the most impressive ones in our newsletters.
GeoGebra in the Media
- Article mentioning GeoGebra in La Stampa.it
- 10 Reasons Why Mathematics Teachers Should Blog
- Jeff Patmore and his colleague's article about GeoGebra translated into Chinese by Professor Guo Kan
- Docentes salteños aún no logran superar la brecha digital
- CCITE - promoting the return of the polymath
- Upper secondary teachers' approaches to the use of GeoGebra
- Docentes salteños aún no logran superar la brecha digital
- What we need to do to develop the appropriate education for our pupils today and into the future
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
New Institutes
We would like to hereby welcome our new GeoGebra Institutes:
- GeoGebra Institute of Chalimbana, Zambia
What you can do:
- Get inspired! Create your own GI website and let us know about it! Once you have your own site, do not forget to update it with information to serve your local community!
- Help us extend the GI network! Please let us know at institutes@geogebra.org if you know anyone who would be willing to establish a GeoGebra Institute.
Events from summer and in autumn
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.
Oct
- Oct 3: Introducing and using GeoGebra, in Reading , UK
- Oct 10-12: NCTM 2012 Regional Conference in Dallas, Texas, US
- Oct 17: Landes-AG Mathematik APS OÖ, in Linz, Austria
- Oct 18: Introducing and using GeoGebra, York, UK
- Oct 19-20: Annual meeting of GeoGebra Institute of Valencia, in Velancia, Spain
- Oct 24: GeoGebra como instrumento para las Matemáticas Educativas, in Acatlán, Mexico
- Oct 24-26: NCTM 2012 Regional Conference in Hartford in Connecticut, US
Nov
- Nov 5: GeoGebra-Fortbildung, in Innsbruck, Austria
- Nov 6: Geogebra–2D: Das Werkzeug, in Steyr-Münichholz, Austria
- Nov 8-10: Latin-American GeoGebra Conference Uruguay 2012 in Montevideo, Uruguay
- Nov 16: Introducing and using GeoGebra in Sussex, UK
- Nov 16-17: VTN 2012 Varga Tamás Módszertani Napok, Budapest, Hungary
- Nov 24: GeoGebra Day in Segovia, Spain
- Nov 28-30: NCTM 2012 Regional Conference Chicago in Illinois, US
What you can do:
- Please attend and also take a minute to let others know about our events!
- It is our goal that GeoGebra appear in every important Math or IT related conferences. We are maintaining a list of those conferences. Represent GeoGebra at one or more of these events!
- If you know about a potential conference where GeoGebra should be present , if you need assistance with organizing a conference/workshop or have news for our next newsletter please let us know at events@geogebra.org.
See
GeoGebra Newsletters for previous newsletters
Go to GeoGebra User Forum if you have any technical questions
Thank you for your attention!
The GeoGebra Team
