Thinking Blog - 'Visualization' Technologies: Bringing Organization to Internet Research

Vivismo has set out to revolutionize the way we search the Internet. It has designed 'visualization' technology to provide structure and organization to the vast amount of information on the web. Through linguistic and statistical analysis, Vivismo's Clustering Engine doesn't rely on typical methods such as predefined categories to generate hot lists. Unlike Google which generates lists according to the popularity of the site which is determined by the number of sites that link to it, Vivismo provides a number of related topics and subtopics so the user is the one who determines the parameters and relevance of each individual search.

This technology can significantly help students find information more easily when doing research. Through the classification of each list and the organization of clustered results students can see the relationships between ideas and decide for themselves what to focus on. The convenience of automatic results organized to maximize time and quality of information is available at http://search.vivisimo.com/

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Crunch Time!

The countdown is on...8 days left of the school year. I am so busy with end of the year activities, video taping special school events, editing them for our local news network, report cards, and my 2 graduate courses there is barely time to breathe! September and June are always crazy months filled with lots of fun activities and hectic schedules!

Opening Night - Blog Style

This is it...I am now an official blogger. I just started exploring the blog world and I am looking forward to this experience. I hope to incorporate this technology into my teaching and I am beginning to think of some ideas as to how to make that a reality.