Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2012-10

Community News

• Thank you for supporting The GeoGebra on iPad & Android project !
• We had a succesfull GeoGebra Conference 2012 on 21-23 Sept in Warsaw, Poland.
• Registration is open for GeoGebra Pre-ATCM Conference 2012!
• Come and meet! San José GeoGebra Afternoon
• Register and participate! Latin-American GeoGebra Conference Uruguay 2012 on Nov 8-10 in Montevideo, Uruguay
• Meet the GeoGebra Ambassadors on Official GeoGebra Blog

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.

Translation Issues

The GeoGebra software is currently available in more than 50 languages, however there are a few versions still missing like Afrikaans, Sinhala, Tajik etc. Other translations would urgently need updating such as Albanian, Basque, Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Georgian, Indonesian, Japanese, Kazakh, Malayalam, Macedonian, Polish, Tamil and Thai.

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

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
• Harmonisk svängning
• Der Differenzenquotient

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
• 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 Hong Kong
• GeoGebra Institute of Celaya, Mexico
• GeoGebra Institute of Mizoram, India
• GeoGebra Institute of Athens, Greece
• GeoGebra Institute of Cartago, Costa Rica
• GeoGebra Institute of Karlstad, Sweden
• GeoGebra Institute of Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan
• GeoGebra Institute of SCERT Raipur, C.G. India

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 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:

1. Please attend and also take a minute to let others know about our events!
2. 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!
   
3. 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