Rollyo: Hmmm.. interesting. How does this differ than to search the internet. Well, for educators like us it is huuuge. See, it is not that we can't handle or search the internet or inadvertently see stuff we'd rather not see but when we like our students to research the internet we don't want them to see stuff that for some reason comes up when they "google" it.
So with Rollyo, I can restrict their searches to sites I know are safe to search for. I don't have to presearch 5 or 10 different ways to make sure that the results presented are ok or if there are some unwanted sites in between the good ones.
So I created a ROLL with just math sites. It creates the code for you so you can include it on your website like you can see in this post. What is nice though is that I can include it in the same way on yourhomework.com. So when I assign some assignment where the students have to search the website, I can make a ROLL and include it on my homework website and they can then search to their hearts content. Additionally, parents can see this and will appreciate the fact that we have their kids' best interests at heart. Another + for us yay!!
P.S. I made a small change to the code and stripped out ability to search the web. Oh and the reason I chose a black roll is cause I like black licorice and it reminded me of that! :)
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Hi Roland,
I like your black-- licorice-- rollyo ...cute!! I was looking forward to seeing your list of website but-- as with my own-- when I clicked on your link, the webpage that opened up was the main sign in page of rollyo. That was when it struck me that I needed to click the "go" on the link. Then, of course, it worked... and when I went back to my own page-- it worked just fine-- as well. Thank you!! :) Hope you are having a wonderful summer!! -Jani
How did you get your Rollyo on your blog? I tried and tried but am obviously missing something.
I like the black...very cool.
Lorna
On the rollyo site it gives you the code you can use to include in your own web site. So you can just include it in your own blog entry.
If that doesn't work, you can actually go into the html view and post it right into the post (at the bottom)
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