SLL 2.0, Week 5, Thing 12

Rollyo is officially cool in my books! This site would allow you to create a search engine for students that would search only those web sites that you wanted them to be on, This would be great for Web Quest pages. I am thinking of a Web Quest on States for my 5th graders. They could use a special search engine to find the info for their assignment. That way they wouldn't be floundering around on the world wide web without a clue. They can really get lost and waste a huge amount of time without guided searches of some kind.

I added a search box to this page for searching for data on different plants. It searches several online plant data bases. Now I can search them all at once instead of going to a half dozen different sites.

VERY COOL!!

SLL 2.0, Week 5, Thing 11

It has been a while since I have posted. I have had more important things going on. The last book of the Harry Potter series arrived so I needed to get it read.

I looked at the Award sites. There are some really interesting sites but they look like real time eaters. Still if you needed an application they would certainly be useful. I am going to put a link here to explore them more later. One that I looked at was the Google documents. I can see it being useful to send documents to an from work and home etc. I will give it a try the next time I have a need to send a document.

I joined the ALA NING site. It is nice but like a lot of social networking I don't see myself using it too much. Keeping up and posting is just another thing to take up my time. Still it is interesting. High school students might like to interact with one another and share books on a library related NING site. May be it might be a way to revive the library club next year.

Can you tell that I am beginning to feel stressed about school getting started and finding time to get everything done? Hummm... "Time waits for no" librarian.