Photo credit: by Jack Delano used under creative commons, coutesy of Library of Congress LC-USW36-645The thing for this post is to create your own search engine using Rollyo which is a way of setting up customizable topical searches. I created a searchroll for my ABE blog but on quite a small scale (I only added in three websites), considering that this blog is supposed to support three departments the 25 limit on total URL's may prove too restrictive.
With an IL head on I was pondering whether any use could be made of these tools for this end - I remember that I used to deliver a session split over two days where I would ask students to go away and evaluate some websites using the accuracy, objectivity, currency, authority etc. and then report back on their evaluations. Perhaps I could have created a searchroll of sites and then asked students to search for a topic and identify credible sites out of the results...or perhaps I am just looking for novel ways to reinvent the wheel...
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