#12 (Week 5)

I managed to create a searchroll using ROLLYO (is it pronounced rolly-0 or roll-yo?). I can see the use for this for school. However, I'm in summer mode now and had a hard time thinking of a topic to use. I decided to use quick reference sites that are often used in school and that are on the school library's web page: Parkway's catalog, Free Library of Phila., AccessPA etc. I made the mistake of including mapquest. I added it because the students often go to various locations for service learning projects and I thought it would be a good source for local maps. But on Rollyo, mapquest just takes over. No matter what you put in the subject bar (peace, social justice, Darfur), the main urls that come up are for mapquest. For example, "Darfur" produced several maps for streets named Darfur in various cities. I think I would leave mapquest out next time I create a rollyo searchroll. Also, I found I really had to have the urls on hand, because if I looked them up while I was building a searchroll, I lost the urls I had already typed on the searchroll. I can see how Rollyo might be useful with a bit of planning ahead. This is the link to the Parkway NW High School for Peace and Social Justice's quick reference searchroll:http://rollyo.com/tweinraub/parkway_nw_reference/.