Rollyo - rolling, rolling, rolling

And so Task 12 took a lot longer than I thought it would. 

It took me a while to get my head around what this tool, Rollyo, is all about. It only twigged when I saw someone elses searchroll for guitar tablature. I saw that they had a selection of websites that have guitar tabs.. I realised that this could be useful when looking for lyrics for songs.  If I make my own search roll with trusted Lyric websites then I won't have to go through all the sites that have millions of pop ups, or hidden viruses.

I tried my hand at it and made a searchroll based on education resources. It was quite a frustrating experience because when I was trying to put my links in I kept accidentally opening them in the same tab as I was using to make the searchroll. Everytime that I had to go back to the previous page all my links were gone and I would have to start again. I did this about six time!!!!  My laptop is very touchy!  Anyway finally it is done and I have even created a searchbox here on my blog where you can search for things from a selection of different sources. Try it out...  It's on the right under my songs, above my Library thing catalogue.

I also added Rollyo to my searchbox on my browser and to my bookmark toolbar... so i have been rolled. :-)

Now it is time for sleep...

Library Thing...

So Task 11 is done... I have started a Library Thing account...  What is Library thing? you may ask. Well it is a book cataloguing site. I can add all the books that I have and compare my library with the libraries of others. I can do reviews, get recommendations based on the books in my library and many more things that I haven't even thought of.   Will I use this after I have finished doing all my tasks?  I really don't know. It sounds quite time consuming to put all my books in my catalogue.  I suppose that it could be something to do over a holiday period.  I wonder if it could provide APA references at the push of a button :-)  lol. I would definitely use it then!!

So I am now about half way through my tasks. It has been an interesting journey. An eye opening journey. The amount of different sites that you can join, the blogs you can follow, the things you can make, see and do!! Amazing! It is so hard to decide which networking site, which book cataloguing site, which blog hoster, which photo image hoster. If it is hard for me, I wonder how kids work it out. What is it that influences their choices? How can I find out?  Maybe they are recommended the sites by friends. Maybe they just browse and hit on something and decide that this will be alright.  Maybe they look a couple of different sites and what they offer and then make their choice.  How would they justify their decisions.

So far I have made my choices solely based on the 23 things that I have chosen to do from the blog that I found by accident when browsing around. So much of the choice has been taken out of my hands which has been good for me as it made learning not so overwhelming. But how relevant will these choices be for me later? Will I find that another site is more suitable. For example, I started a flickr account when I already had a photobucket account which is just another photo hosting site. Not that different really? or are they?  If someone knows please tell...

And so I am moving on to task 12.... see you soon.