I created a Rollyo account for our school to search for current events news. I added it to my blog page as an html gadget. I'm not sure I even remember how I did it, but it seems to be working.
I used some pre-existing searchrolls to create my current events roll--Top News, News & Media, etc. However, I have it also searching my blog for news and I didn't really intend to do that. I haven't been able to figure out how to get that off.
Using the gadget on my blog page, I entered a search term and experimented with the results depending on the drop down menu choices. When I searched the whole web, I got hits from Wikipedia and other non-expert sites. When I chose to limit to Top News sites, I got CNN, etc. but no Wikipedia articles. I see possibilities for this kind of filtered searching.
10 hours ago
Sounds interesting, Linda. Maybe this is something we can develop for UIL current events. I'm looking forward to exploring the possibilities when I get to Thing #17.
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