GeoGebra Institute:Best practices
From GeoGebra Manual
Best practices of GeoGebra Institutes
1. Training and Support:
- offering trainings and online courses for teachers and future GeoGebra trainers, users:
- offering certification processes for teachers
- organising graduate, post-graduate or other courses on GG and its use in all related fields
- organising “roadshow” workshops to remote areas
- supporting local and web users via email, facebook page
2. Development and Sharing:
- developing and evaluating free GeoGebra teaching materials (online and video tutorials, applets, interactive e-textbook, competitions for teachers)
- GeoGebra in 10 lessons
- GeoGebra tutorials
- Australian GeoGebra resources
- Methods of teaching with GeoGebra-University of Iowa
- Math e-learning platform
- GeoGebra tutorials in Spanish
- Resources of GeoGebra Institute Madrid
- developing local and regional networks of GG users (mailing lists, forums,websites etc.)
- developing students’ network around GG
- translating GeoGebra documentation to local languages
- hosting local and regional (for e.g. Asia, midwest-USA, Africa, Southern-Europe, Northern-Europe etc.) conferences
- promoting GG in workshops, conferences, competitions (for e.g. Math Olympics) and exhibitions to share knowledge and experience
- organizing competitions
- setting up and maintaining own websites, which are linked to the main IGI website
- developing websites to foster the use and sharing of GeoGebra materials suitable for national curricula
- developing blogs
3. Research and Collaboration:
- designing and implementing research projects on GG (for e.g. use of technology in mathematics education, action research)
- supporting students in their thesis work or PhD to conduct research on the use of GG in various fields
- publishing articles, books on GG, launching Geogebra Journals
- providing feedback to training and development activities
- promoting research collaboration at a local and regional level
- collaborating with national level educational offices: for e.g. to integrate GeoGebra into local curricula, accredit courses by ministry of education