A smattering from this week: Jan 24

Here's a smattering of what I read this week:

Creative Commons - New announcements from the White House include grants to fund higher education. The exciting thing about these grant are the fact that the funding requires that resources be released under the Creative Commons attribution. Curious about Creative Commons? The founder defines it here: http://youtu.be/AWxyx5iYdvI

Mingoville: mingoville.com

Site for young students needing to practice English. Uses a social networking and gaming aspect. There are three levels, at its simplest form, Mingoville is free. Math apps are new at this site - give them a try as they are free for all of 2011.

Three services to check out when your students are doing research: Evernote, Klippt, The Awesome Highlighter These services perform the same function in different ways. They allow students to clip information from the internet along with the data they'll need to cite the source and find further information later.

http://www.easellearning.com/ - Easel is an iPad app for Algebra and SAT prep

This is just...well, beautiful. http://khanacademy.org

Google Doodle is back! What do your kids "want to do someday?"

http://www.google.com/doodle4google/

Next Generation money...want some?

http://www.cs4hs.com/ - Google offers grants to higher ed institutions who develop workshops and projects about computer science for their local high school colleagues .