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2013 GeoGebra North American Conference

Balazs — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 19:46:29 +0000

The 2013 GeoGebra North American Conference is being held at Miami University in Oxford, OH, on August 3-4, 2013. This free, two-day professional development experience provides participants with 70 interactive mathematics teaching and learning sessions with facilitators and participants from throughout the United States and beyond.

Please see the Conference Program for details on all the sessions arranged by the following strands:

Algebra and Algebra 2
Geometry
Probability, Statistics, and Discrete Mathematics
Precalculus / Calculus
Early / Middle Grades Learning

Hands-on Workshops

In addition, day-long, hands-on workshops are provided within the conference. The two-day Newbie Workshop is designed for new users while our one-day Digital Ethics Workshop explores issues that impact all educators in our digital age – copyright, privacy, and social media.

Register Today!

There is still time to register and attend the conference. Please visit http://ggbnorthamerica.eventbrite.com and see you in Ohio!

For More Information

For more information, visit the conference website at www.ggbmidwest.com/conference or email co-organizers Steve Phelps and Todd Edwards .

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4th Annual North America GeoGebra Conference

Balazs — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:55:45 +0000

The 4th Annual North American GeoGebra Conference will be held August 3 and 4 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. This FREE conference features over 50 content-based sessions, a 2-day introductory workshop, and a Digital Ethics Conference-in-a-Conference on August 4.

Markus Howenwarter and John Golden will be Keynoting the GeoGebra Conference. Richard Stallman will be Keynote for the Digital Ethics CiC.

Join the event! https://sites.google.com/site/ggbmidwest2013/

Support the conference! http://www.fundageek.com/project/detail/634/2013-GeoGebra-North-America-Conference

Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

kovzol — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:16:56 +0000

Thanks to Google, this year we had 7 students for the Google Summer of Code program. This was the 3rd year we have been involved after 5 and 7 supported students since 2010. As an official closing of the annual program, mentors of the involved organizations were invited to California, United States, to meet at the Mentor Summit on 20-21 October 2012.

Photo by Robin Smidsrød

The summit took place at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View. About 300 mentors worldwide came together to have an unconference about participant-driven topics including student selection process, events, financial questions of open source development, free software in education, and more. Lots of important FOSS took part in the sessions like LibreOffice, The GNU Project, KDE, Gnome, PHPBB, Joomla, Mediawiki, Inkscape and Xapian. GeoGebra was represented by Balázs Koren and Zoltán Kovács from Hungary and Austria.

Mentors from other mathematics related free software were also participating, namely Virgilio Gomez Rubio from the R project and Burcin Erocal from Sage. GeoGebra already has some kind of direct connections to both software, and this meeting was a good time to plan further developments between us.

As usual, Google offered a great hospitality to all participants. California was sunny during these days and it was a perfect time to make excursions to important places of the Silicon Valley and San Francisco as well.

San Francisco and the Golden Gate bridge from North

Methods of Teaching with GeoGebra

Balazs — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:53:53 +0000

There is a great deal of GeoGebra-related information on the Web that focuses on (a) the technology (how to use the various features and tools in GeoGebra), or (b) the sharing of Dynamic Worksheets developed by faculty.

But what specific teaching methods, strategies, or models are being used to organize GeoGebra-based instruction? Specifically how would a Dynamic Worksheet-related learning activity be organized? How might it be assessed?

The U.S. Common Core-Mathematics emphasizes the notion that high quality mathematics education develops not only content competency but also habits of mind and higher-order skills that are integral to the process of mathematics, e.g., problem solving, reasoning, communications, etc. Are there some teaching methods, strategies, or models that help teachers using GeoGebra focus on both the content and the process of mathematics better than others?

At GeoGebra Iowa, one of our goals is to spotlight the pedagogy of GeoGebra use in the classroom by building an online “methods course” for teachers interested in using GeoGebra as an effective teaching/learning tool.

We hope that educators using GeoGebra, whether at the elementary, secondary, or postsecondary level, will help us build this resource by sharing ideas, experiences, and examples that focus on strategies and methods that are not math content-specific but are transferable.

Please visit us at: https://sites.google.com/site/geogebrainstituteofiowa/the-geogebra-pedagogy-connection if you are interested in this topic or you would care to contribute.

Guest post by Jack Gittinger from the GeoGebra Institute of Iowa

San Jose GeoGebra Afternoon

Balazs — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:38:30 +0000

When: FRI, OCT 19 | 4:00 – 7:00 pm
Where: San Jose State university Department of Mathematics, 520 MacQuarrie Hall

Balazs Koren and Zoltan Kovacs of the International GeoGebra Institute (IGI) lead a series of interactive presentations from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m. The primary aim of the meeting is to introduce participants to the software, share teaching ideas, and build community.

Participants need to bring laptops in order to fully engage in the workshop activities. Light dinner will be provided (RSVP required; email Joanne.RossiBecker at sjsu dot edu by Oct 15 to reserve your seat).

For more information write a comment here or send an e-mail to balazs at geogebra org.

You can download the flyer in .jpg or .pdf format. Please share the information about the workshop. We are looking forward to meet you in San Jose.

Zoltan, Balazs and the local organizers, Joanne and Ferdinand.

P.S.: Thank you @mtoddedwards for the flyer.