Learning With Portal and Portal is Free Until September 20, 2011

Between now and September 20, 2011 you may download Portal for free from Steam. Portal is apparently regarded by many people to be one of the best games ever.  It was awarded a 9.0 by Gamespot and was called "quirky, clever, polished, and presented with a spark of a subtly evil humor" by IGN.  I have to admit I have not played it yet but it's downloading as I write.  It was not only the IGN review but the recommendation by  cnet's Rick Broida that captured my interest. To get it you will have to sign up for a free Steam account.

As I was looking around the site prior to downloading, I came across the Learn With Portals page.  On this page they state, " Using interactive tools like the Portal series to draw them in makes physics, math, logic, spatial reasoning, probability, and problem-solving interesting, cool and fun which gets us one step closer to our goal - engaged, thoughtful kids."  Sounds interesting, now I'm off to play the game!  ;-)