ROLLYO

The function of Rollyo is gathering a group of websites which are our favorites or a set of similar online resources, just like the point of view from BBC World

"Rollyo offers the ability to search the content of a list of specified websites, allowing you to narrow down the results to pages from websites that you already know and trust." -- BBC World.

It will be very usful and helpful search tool , especially when we are studying or doing research. I am going to use it if I study next year. There are so many amazing new stuff in websites. I think I would never known them if we don't have this chance to learn them. How luck we are!

LibraryThing

LibraryThing is so cool!!! I created an account there and there was only one step to go: user name plus password. That's all!! Unbelievable! Usually we need to provide more information to sign up in the websites. But LibraryThing is different. I love it and feel relax to deal with it.

When I went into it, I found those books whatever I like. There are titles, authors, descriptions, reviews and so on. It's another type of library. I think I'm going to use it frequently from now on.

Week 5 Play week

Online image generator is another new thing to me. I

played around and was so amazed about it. There are so many kinds of web to let us generate different things. I tried a few of them and some of them seem not friendly. e.g. I went to the web of Garfield Comic Strip Generator. I made images and couldn't save it in any way except print it out.

Then I tried Reflectiobn Generator and succeeded. It's easy to follow so I made the picture as shown right-hand

side. http://www.reflectionmaker.com/

I made these two little images by using DoppelMe Avatar Generator. I like it because it's quite easy and so fun. Though it seems a bit childish, I still enjoyed it. You may try it if you haven't. http://www.doppelme.com/create/step2.asp

Week 4 Task9: Locate library related blogs& news feeds

I've tried a few search tools: Blogline, Feedster, Topix.net, Syndic8.com and Technorati. They have their own characters which is different from each other.

Bloglines, Topix.net, Technorati and Feedster are great sites and they are more friendly and attractive, also they are easy to use. Especially, Topix and Technorati have great interfaces. e.g. in Topic.net, there are "Top picks" on the top and list some hot topics with little pictures to show what are happening now. I don't like the designs of Syndic8 and Feedster. The home page of Syndic8 is so dull and not appealing. Feedster looks more like a personal blog than a public one.

When I tried to search information by them, I found that Bloglines and Technorati seems can find the results more relevantly than others; the search options in Feedster, Topix.net and Syndic8 were not always that relevant, also there were rather strange stuff sppeared in the websites. Therefore, I think that Bloglines is the best search tool, which can give us the information more accurate and relevant.

Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders

I've signed up in Bloglines. This is quite new to me. Initially, I was not sure what I need to do about adding feeds. Then I asked my collages about it. She taught me how to do that. Afterwards, I tried to get more feeds by myself, you can find them in http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs Actually, it was fun and also it is useful for our work. Next time, when customers ask me about RSS, I can tell them and teach them how to deal with it. In addition, I can find my favourite web quickly and get up-to-date information from them.

My stamp

my calendar

Week 3: Photos & Images

This week, I signed up in Flickr and looked around. I think it's really cool. There are a huge amount of photos and images in this site. From different people's view, we can share their experience and images. This is a Wonderful world. Then I uploded 3 photos with a tag " Flowers in Chinese Park". I took these photos in my hometown. I love them, they are so beautiful and look like flowers in New Zealand. Interesting? If you go to this site, you may have a look (http://www.flickr.com/photos/14697453@N04/?saved=1). I used the photos which I uploaded into Flickr to make a stamp and a page of callendar. They look like real ones. I really enjoyed this experience.

From this week's learning process, I had lots of fun and enjoy the experience of surfing Internet. I think that computer is such a wonderful technology. Simply, I uploaded some photos which I took with my camera, and then I made a piece of stamp and a page of callendar by using the software in Flickr sites. There are so many amazing things happened with the computer. Our life become so colourfu because of computers.

Week 2: Online Social Networks

This week I've visited a few popular social networking web sites and took a look around. I 've not only signed up in Bebo, Myspace and Facebook, but uploaded a photo in Myspace. I've also uploaded 2 photos into my own blog.

I took the photos about 1 year ago when I was still studying in the Uni. I went out for beautiful sightseeings at the weekends, and then I noticed that we're never far from breathtaking scenery, like beautiful beaches, green grass and colourful flowers. Wherever we visit in NZ, we are so amazed about it. I think that God really blessed this land. Hopefully, this will last forever.

City of Sails: Auckland