After playing with Rollyo for a while, I created a search roll called Book Ideas for Teens and put a link to it on this blog site. I found some sites to include on it by searching the terms library, teen reads, and young adults. Now that I've done it, I'm not sure how useful this will be to me personally. Maybe I need to "play" some more.
I think Rollyo might be a useful tool for teachers who want their students to practice search skills but want/need to help them focus their search to avoid inaccurate or inappropriate sites. This might be particularly useful in the lower grades.
The other sites were much more fun. I will recommend the Traveler IQ Challenge to our social studies teachers, and I expect my husband may get hooked on it as well. I need to get him to take a picture of me reading so that I can add a mini poster here. Lyman has the regular READ poster software, but the mini version should be fun and more accessible for our reading teachers.
I also had fun with the Traveler's IQ and have to admit I spent a bit of time playing there! I really like the mini READ poster version and think it would be great for students and teachers to utilize.
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