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Hangarian AUTOGRAPH successfully launched in Budapest, January 2008
Csicsman József and colleague, from ÚJ CALCULUS,
proudly demonstrating their
new localisation of Autograph 3.2 at a recent educational show in Budapest.
For further details of Hungarian Autograph, please contact:
Tel/Fax: +36 1 260 3107 Mob: +36 20 935 0645 Email: csicsman@calculus.hu
Posted: 22nd January 2007
AUTOGRAPH was the star again at the BETT SHOW, London 9-12 January 2008
The BETT Show, in Olympia, London, is Europe's largest Educational Technology show.
Visitors from all over the world came to SW-1, the premier BETT location in the Software Village, to see the latest International edition of Autograph 3.2 including its highly acclaimed brilliant new interface, award-winning help system, localisation in 12 foreign languages, and full Unicode support.
The entire Autograph team were there: Mark Hatsell, Douglas Butler, Stephen Whipp, Simon Woodhead, and senior trainer Alan Catley. This year, Autograph was once again the major sponsor of the official BETT Mathematics Route Planner.
Posted: 13th January 2007
AUTOGRAPH WORKSHOPS in the FAR EAST, December 2007 - with Douglas Butler
Wed 12 Dec 14:30-16:30 and Thu 13 Dec 09:00-15:30
Workshops with teachers from the ESF Schools, Hong Kong
Fri 14 Dec Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Lecture Room N002 16:15/16:45-18:15 Twilight Presentation
Tue 18-Thu 20 Dec National Taiwan Science Education Centre Plenary presentation and two workshops, at ATCM Taipei
Fri 21 Dec Chien Juo High School, Taipei 09:00-11:0 Seminar
Posted: 11th December 2007
AUTOGRAPH TRAINING DAYS from Douglas Butler and Alan Catley
DOUGLAS BUTLER, details: Lighthouse Professional Development
Grafton Radisson Hotel, London ..A2 Maths: Wed 14 Nov 07, 11-16 Maths: Thu 15 Nov 07 Renaissance Hotel, Manchester ..A2 Maths: Tue 4 Dec 07, 11-16 Maths: Wed 5 Dec 07
ALAN CATLEY, details from alan at catley.org
Wed 7 Nov 07, London -
Thu 29 Nov 07, Bristol -
Wed 5 Dec 07, Manchester
Thu 6 Dec 07, London -
Thu 13 Dec 07, Notts/Derby - Fri 14 Dec 07, York
Posted: 1st November 2007
ECIS Pre-conference Workshop on Modelling: Madrid Thurs 22 Nov 2007
MATHEMATICAL MODELLING WORKSHOP
10:00am - 4:15pm, Thursday 22nd November 2007
The day before ECIS November conference "Using Dynamic Software for MATHEMATICAL MODELLING"
including a look at incorporating the History of Mathematics
focussing in particular on: Autograph 3 (2D and 3D), Excel and Word
at the beautiful campus of International College Spain, Madrid
Posted: 13th October 2007
ANOTHER BUMPER TSM in July in Oundle, home of Autograph!
The 2007 TSM 3-day Residential hands-on Workshop: 10-12 July
(Technology for Secondary/College Mathematics)
was held again at Oundle School, Peterborough (UK). For the 6th year running it was fully booked! 122 teachers from 18 countries!
This popular residential workshop proved again to be the is the perfect opportunity to get to grips with Autograph and other ICT issues, using the amazing computer labs of Oundle School, led by a distinguished team of trainers. Download 2007 Programme (pdf, 1.5Mb)
One of the leading Autograph trainers, Alan Catley, is offering a several full days of training in London, entitled: Using Autograph to motivate and inspire in the mathematics classroom
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Philip Allan Teacher Workshop (Hodder Education)
Posted: 27th April 2007
See AUTOGRAPH 3.20 at ATM (Loughborough) and MA (Keele) - Easter 2007
ALAN CATLEY, one of the senior Autograph trainers in the UK, and Autograph author DOUGLAS BUTLER will be Loughborough and Keele this Easter at the UK's two national mathematics teachers conferences:
AUTOGRAPH WORKSHOPS in DUBAI and Abu Dhabi - March 2007
There is to be 2-day hands-on WORKSHOP on AUTOGRAPH 3.20
at Dubai College, Thursday 15th – Friday 16th March 2007 led by: • Douglas Butler (iCT Training Centre, UK) • Hassan Lakiss (Dubai College, Dubai) • Murray Lamshed (Emirates Int. Sch., Dubai) Full details and application form - click here
Sat 17 - Mon 19 March:METSMaC 2007
Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing
Abu Dhabi: Program (including Douglas Butler's opening Plenary).
Dubai College
Posted: 10th February 2007
AUTOGRAPH at NCSM and NCTM in Atlanta, Georgia - March 2007
ALAN CATLEY, one of the senior Autograph trainers in the UK, will be in Atlanta for the highlight of the conference year for US Math teachers:
• Alan's NCSM presentation: Wednesday 21st March, 10:15-11:45
"Autograph – supporting teachers in putting projected computer technology to work on keeping learners totally focussed on math"
• Alan's NCTM presentation: Thursday 22nd March, 15:00 - 16:30
"Improving Learning in Math through Constructive Use of a Data Projector"
DOUGLAS BUTLER , one of the principle Autograph authors, will be giving workshops in Massachusetts and California during February as follows: • Massachusetts Tue-Thu 13-15 Feb: Three 1-day workshops for teachers in BOSTON Fri-Sun 16-18 Feb: ICTCM, Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston
- Autograph Minicourse M12: Sat 17 Feb, 12:30-1:15 Essex Northeast Mon 19 Feb at GROTON SCHOOL, Mass • California (San Diego area) Tue 20 Feb: HIGH TECH HIGH SCHOOL, San Diego Wed 21 Feb: PALOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, Menifee Thu 22 Feb: FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL, San Diego Fri 23 Feb: CUYAMACA COLLEGE, El Cajon • Caifornia (Los Angeles area) Mon 26 Feb: IRVINE VALLEY COLLEGE, Irvine Tue 27 Feb: WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL, Los Angeles Wed 28 Feb: BISHOP MONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL, Torrance
Posted: 10th February 2007
Autograph 3 will star again at the BETT SHOW, London 10-13 January 2007
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The BETT Show in Olympia: Europe's largest Educational Technology show.
Be sure to visit the best address in town: SW-1, the premier location in the Software Village, to see the latest Autograph 3.20 version - including a brilliant new interface, 6 foreign languages, and full Unicode support.
Meet the Autograph team: Mark Hatsell, Douglas Butler, Stephen Whipp, Simon Woodhead, and senior trainer Alan Catley. This year, Autograph is the major sponsor of the official BETT Mathematics Route Planner, which you can downloadnow (4Mb).
Software Village Presentation Theatre:Thurs 11th Jan, 2:30-3:15pm "Autograph for Mathematics" - by Douglas Butler. All welcome.
Posted: 8th January 2007
Autograph training in Cincinnati, Dubai, Nice, Hanoi and Hong Kong!
Douglas Butler will be showing teachers in Australia how Autograph 3 has been taking the UK schools by storm!
Posted: 20th August 2006
New Update support page for Installation CD
Having problems installing or running Autograph? - see here Autograph 3.11 CD is now available which is the same as 3.10, but overcomes these installation problems. Send your full address to request a CD.
ContactAutograph Support [Note: nominal £10 charge in UK].
NOTE: Autograph files saved in 3.1x will not be readable by earlier 3.0x versions. It is strongly advised to upgrade to 3.11 as this will be the current version for the foreseeable future.
Posted: 13th February 2006
Autograph joins CLUSTRMAPS!
You can now feel part of the global community of Autograph users.
Autograph has signed up to Clustrmaps, so you can see where else in the world people are looking at this site.
Just click on the map for more detail!
Posted: 30th March 2006
Douglas Butler gave "awesome" Keynote at T³ International Conference in Denver
One of the principle Autograph authors, Douglas Butler, gave an "awesome" curtain-raiser to the 2006 Texas Instruments T³ Conference in Denver, Colorado, on Fri 24th February.
He spoke in his capacity as Director of the
iCT Training Centre (Oundle School), and talked on: "Can Technology Save High School Math and Science".
=> See Keynote Details.
Posted: 9th March 2006
Happy Valentine's Day from Australia!
Just in from the AAMT email list in Australia,
a great, simple curve for your loved one: y = |x| ± √(4 – x²)
and a polar heart that beats: r = 3 – 3sinθ + sinθ√|cosθ|/(sinθ + a)
Use the Constant Controller to set
'a' to animate from 1.2 to 2 (step 0.1).
Autograph 3 was talk of the town at the BETT SHOW, London 11-14 January 2006
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The BETT Show in Olympia in January is Europe's largest Educational Technology show.
The Autograph stand was busy for all four days, with visitors keen to learn about the latest developments, and to meet the author team: Mark Hatsell and Douglas Butler, and senior trainer Alan Catley.
CONGRATULATIONS TO AUTOGRAPH !! There were 571 products entered for the prestigious BETT AWARDS and only 42 were nominated. Autograph 3 was the only product to be nominated for TWO awards:
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1. Mathematics Key Stage 3 and 4 (11-16)
- 2. Learning and Skills Hardware, Software, Content, and Tools (16+)
Posted: 16th January 2006
Autograph 3 at ATCM, South Korea 12-16 December 2005
Douglas Butler will be conducting two Autograph workshops, giving two lectures on training issues and the use of dynamic software in the classroom, and taking part in the prestigious ATCM Panel on future perspectives of technology in mathematics education.
Posted: 10th December 2005
Autograph 3.10 - great review in the London Education Guardian
12th July 2005 "Evaluate" supplement to the Education Guardian
"I think Autograph will be of tremendous use in aiding students' understanding of a variety of shape, algebra and statistical topics.
" I expect my students will understand concepts introduced with Autograph quickly and in more depth than they would through traditional teaching methods"
Douglas Butler will be taking Autograph 3.10 to show teachers in Australia and New Zealand what has been taking the UK schools by storm!
Tue 20 Sept:Mathematical Assoc of WA, Perth Thu-Fri 22-23 Sept: Workshops and presentations in Sydney
Tue-Fri 27-30 Sept: NZAMT Conference, Christchurch (5 workshops)
Mon-Wed 3-5 Oct: Workshops and presentations in Brisbane.
Posted: 9th September 2005
Autograph 3 supports and dazzles the ICTMT meeting in Bristol (July 2005)
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Autograph 3 workshop steals the show
• Following hard on the heals of the highly successful 4th TSM Workshop in Oundle - see Photo Report, the 7th International Conference on Teaching Mathematics with Technology (ICTMT) took place at Bristol University and John Cabot College, Bristol in July.
• There were nearly 200 delegates from all over the world. The 90-minute Autograph workshop (photo, right), led by Douglas Butler, was packed out and a great success.
Autograph Workshop
[click to enlarge]
Sponsored Teachers
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Autograph sponsored 7 teachers to attend ICTMT, pictured here receiving their complimentary copies of Autograph 3:
• Chantal Gabriel-Randour (Belgium) • Dawn Denyer (UK)
• Jose Antonio Juarez Lopez (Mexico) • Alan Slater (UK)
• Gianfranco Giacobino (Italy) • Roberta Grech (Malta)
• Daniela Lehotska (Slovac Republic)
Posted: 3rd August 2005
Autograph 3.10 and new Autograph MANUAL now available!
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Autograph 3.10 is ready!
• There are a number of minor improvements to the Statistics and Probability sections.
• There is a major new 3D feature on Volumes of Revolution. Volumes are created by allowing 2D plots in 3D, and rotating an Area about either axis, or about any straight line. See the new tutorials in "Autograph In Action".
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The Autograph MANUAL is ready!
• This is a comprehensive 96-page summary of all Autograph's features in Statistics (1D), 2D Graphing and 3D graphing.
• Illustrated in full colour throughout, the Manual is also available in v 3.10 from the Help menu as an on-screen PDF file.
Contact your dealer to order the 3.10 CD and Manual,
and to upgrade to Autograph v 3.10 from v 2.xx or from v 3.0x. Please remember to quote your licence certificate number.
This popular residential workshop, now in its 4th year, is the perfect opportunity to get to grips with Autograph and other ICT issues, using the amazing computer labs of Oundle School, led by a distinguished team of trainers.
Posted: Updated 22nd May 2005
Autograph
at NCSM and NCTM, California
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NCSM:Monday
4th - Wednesday 6th April 2005:
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Annual Conference in Anaheim,
California. Hear the extended Autograph presentation from Douglas Butler
and Alan Catley on Tuesday 1:30pm || View
Link >>
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NCTM: Wednesday
6th - Saturday 9th April 2005
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Conference in Anaheim,
California. Hear the extended Autograph presentation from Douglas Butler
and Alan Catley on Friday 11:00am
Visit the Autograph Theatre presented by The
Learning Team on the
"It's About Time" Booth 601. Continuous Autograph presentations,
a different topic every 20 minutes!
Posted: March
29th 2005
Autograph
in the Far East
Autograph
workshops held in Malaysia/Signapore this
December:
at the Singapore National Institute for Education 350
delegates are expected ranging from New Zealand to China and South
Korea.
Posted: December
3rd, 2004
Autograph
goes to the USA Colleges ...
Autograph
3 is being presented at ICTCM-17 (International
Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics)
28-31 Oct 2004 in New Orleans, Louisiana, and AMATYC (American
Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges) 18 -
21 Nov 2004 in Orlando, Florida
... and to the Cote d'Azure Autograph 3 features in 4 major presentations
at the ECIS
Conference (European Council of International
Schools) 19-21 Nov 2004 in Nice, France.
See Mathematics
on the Cote d'Azure >> (PDF file)
Posted: October
27, 2004
Autograph
dates for your 2005 diary...
Weds
12 - Sat 15 Jan 2005 BETT
Olympia, London [British Educational
Technology Trade Show]
Visit the Autograph Theatre: Publisher Zone (Gallery) PZ-26
11am
Mon 12th July - 4pm Weds 14th July 2004 at OUNDLE
SCHOOL, Peterborough, UK
Delegates will enjoy the superb computer
facilities of Oundle School, in the peaceful Northamptonshire
market town of Oundle 930 miles West of Cambridge)
Led by a distinguished team of tutors from the UK and overseas . This
conference has sold out in 2002 and 2003,
so early application is advised.
Posted: 20th February 2004
'talk
of the town' at BETT
AUTOGRAPH
3 was the 'talk of the town' at the BETT Show
in London. The annual Educational Technology show
at Olympia was bigger than ever this year, and Autograph
was in it usual place on the Gallery.
Chartwell-Yorke, the main UK and international distributors of Autograph
3, occupied the next stand, and attracted a lot of attention.
Hangarian AUTOGRAPH successfully launched in Budapest, January 2008 
