In this week’s post, I will be discussing the progress I have made thus far in the implementation of my GAME plan. This week, I used a conference hour, as per GAME plan, to explore a potentially useful digital tool known as Geogebra. I got the idea to explore this technology from our most recent teacher inservice although I had previously heard good reviews. I downloaded the app on my Ipad and played around with some of the features for around an hour. Having just completed a lesson on vector calculus, I was dismayed to find that I could have really used this app to display all of the important vectors (position, velocity, and acceleration) precisely during my lesson! Following my exploration, I immediately logged Geogebra into my spreadsheet of potential technologies and noted its potential use during this lesson next year. There were many other features of this app that had promise as well, so I will likely spend some additional time with this tool.

To continue with my game plan, I will read the tutorial on Geogebra built into the application in order to learn how to use it properly. I may also seek out some online tutorials since I often learn better from them than from reading alone. Unfortunately, while a colleague introduced this tool to me, she herself had not really done much more than toy around with it either. Perhaps some of my fellow math teachers reading this blog have used it before and could offer some tips?