Roll Over Google

With apologies to Chuck Berry.
It’s time to put your internet searching skills to even better use, by constructing your own ‘database’ for users to search directly. With Rollyo you can create a set of websites on a theme, which then becomes a database that your users can search directly. For instance, I could create a set of top class websites on Jazz Music, give it a title (‘All That Jazz’) and it becomes a ‘database’ that our music students can search directly. It’s a kind of advanced, domain search facility, which search engines provide anyway, but is rarely used by students with poor InfoLit skills. With Rollyo, you take that step for your users and then make the ‘database’ available to them. It uses Yahoo searching and is currently in Beta testing. It goes that extra step of creating a searchable ‘database’. This information comes from the incomparable Gary Price of ‘Resource Shelf”. Try some of the featured ‘databases’ or create one yourself on a topic. This could be a useful service capability for us to have, given the upgrading of Tafe courses.
http://www.rollyo.com/