Week 5: Thing 12

This Rollyo thing has some promise if there is time to really investigate it and set it up for a particular project. I don't know how helpful it would be day in and day out, but it would be a good asset for a research project. It would be a helpful way to restrict students to certain websites when you assign them a research project. As a teacher, I could preselect reliable websites and then require students to find all of their material from the provided websites on the Rollyo. One disadvantage to this is that it won't search our subscription based databases like EBSCO or TEL. It would prove very helpful in current events classes where you could create a search engine linked to specific magazine and news articles. I believe it would make up for my criticism of the RSS when I stated that RSS is not a practical tool for finding current articles and information. This would allow the teacher to create a database specific to a grouping of websites. I could also see this as a useful resource for English while we're doing a particular novel. I could link all of the different websites about the novel to a Rollyo. It may also be a useful tool in dealing with writing techniques and online writing resources.
Here is the link to the one I created using writing resource websites:
Okay, so I thought I created one, but my chief complaint is that this website is VERY slow which means I could just search on my own in the meantime. If it ever loads and I can locate it, I'll post it here.

Here is the link (I think): http://www.rollyo.com/321321321/help_me_write_right/