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About Webmorizer
Webmorizer is an online knowledge management tool that stores web documents and any highlights or notes added by its users.
Webmorizer uses a simple frontend to make organization by the users simple and reflexive, and an efficient index in the backend to provide powerful search and retrieval of information.
The Webmorizer backend, or server, runs in instances - therefore allowing both hosting and site installations.
Able to handle hundreds of thousands of users per instance, the technology is proven and reliable.
Contact us to find out more and to try out our Demo site.
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Webmorizer in Education
Webmorizer is a research tool. Webmorizer harnesses the best parts of the Internet: a source of information and a communications medium.
Consider some of the following features of Webmorizer:
- Webmorizer uses Communities to organize information and specify user access and permissions. Each Community has its own set of customizable Categories, and Communities can be nested, i.e. associated within one another. The end result is the possibility to have Classes or groups using separate collections of data, yet maintain overall knowledge retention and transferability from semester to semester, year to year.
- Students can collect and share information and annotations in groups. This collaboration makes group projects on the internet possible, and gives the teacher an objective way to measure participation and contribution.
- Teachers and students are collecting information from the web, annotating, and then using the collected data and highlights directly in presentations. Webmorizer even has special buttons to jump from one highlight to the next on a page.
- The Search History is a thorough collection of which search engines were used to search, when, and for what. This gives both a good feedback tool to help the student better their research approach, and to help the teacher track the online activities of the student.
- Custom search engines present the student with appropriate and sometimes uncommon sources for their information (e.g. Smithsonian Science Images).
- Contextual feedback is possible by locating notes and corrections exactly where they are relevant. The same concept applies to directing attention to exactly where on the page the point(s) of interest lie.
- Webmorizer highlights use colors and styles to help recognition and focus.
- Some teachers use Webmorizer to mark and grade submissions.
- A form of anti-plagiarism is possible - submissions can be searched against others for plagiarism.
Webmorizer's flexibility and simplicity are making adoption into Education one of our most active areas.
We are collecting curriculum-specific examples from the educators currently using Webmorizer.
If you would like to share your own examples, please contact us at education@webmorizer.com.
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