GeoGebra Institute:2010 Annual Report GI Turin
The Italian GeoGebra Institute of Torino
The Italian GeoGebra Institute of Torino was born in July, 2010. The Institute has been founded by the Department of Mathematics of the University of Torino in collaboration with the association "Casa degli Insegnanti" and the Regional Project "DI.FI.MA. in rete".
People
- Ornella Robutti (Director)
- Ferdinando Arzarello (Director of the Department of Mathematics, University of Torino)
- Claudia Testa (President of "La Casa degli Insegnanti" association of teachers)
- Ada Sargenti (Trainer)
- Gaetano Di Caprio (Trainer)
- Patrizia Laiolo (Trainer)
Events and Seminars
The first event organized by the Institute has been in Torino, on the 28th and 29th of October, 2010. The event consisted in some seminars and workshops for teachers of different school levels:
- a conference by Markus Hohenwarter, about the teaching of mathematics with GeoGebra;
- an interview at the web radio of the University of Torino, by Markus Hohenwarter and Ornella Robutti, about the use of GeoGebra at school and in University;
- a seminar by Markus Hohenwarter about specific activities to do in class with GeoGebra;
- a discussion with teachers about the organisation of courses on the use of GeoGebra at different levels of difficulties;
- a meeting with the Torino group of the Institute to plan events for 2011;
- a meeting with the Italian group of GeoGebra users, experts and developers;
- and, last but not least, a fantastic social dinner in a Piemontese restaurant.
Training and Support
In november 2010, the Institute launched a project called “GeoGebra Community of Practice”, whose aim is to provide training courses for teachers at different school levels and to create a Geogebra community of practice. Almost a hundred teachers from different schools have already joined the project. The project end is planned for June 2011: the Institute will release a certification of “user” or “expert” level to teachers that participate in the project.
Plannned activities for next year
Plans of the Institute for next year are:
- Increase training and support of teachers, and releasing certification of user, expert and trainer, according to the competences certified by the committee (at least 30 certifications are expected)
- Develop and sharing of materials and resources;
- Research on mathematics education and collaboration with other Institutes, e.g. in Italy another Institute was born in Bari. Moreover, Gaetano Di Caprio will be an invited speaker at the "III Jornada de l'ACG (Associació Catalana de GeoGebra) http://acgeogebra.cat/joomla/
- A presentation by Ornella Robutti on "Open Problems in Geometry with GeoGebra: explorations and conjectures" (planned in early January, in Turin)
- Another planned activity is to organize a 1-day GeoGebra workshop e in conjunction with the fifth edition of the DI.FI.MA Conference (5-6-7 October 2011), to be held in Turin on the 7th of October (with invited speakers, local presenters, workshops by grade levels).
Resources
The website of the Institute is at the page: http://www.geogebra.unito.it/ and materials and work in progress are also available at the platform of Casa degli Insegnanti: http://www.lacasadegliinsegnanti.it/ and the Regional Project DI.FI.MA. in rete: http://teachingdm.unito.it/porteaperte/.
