The Internet spans the gaps between politics, race and culture to form the world's largest collection of information. But what the Internet pays little attention to is the gap between that information and peoples' understanding of it. Dominant sites like Google and Wikipedia excel at bringing what you want to know to your computer screen -- but stop there. The recently launched website Intermz.com™, however, believes it has the key to bridging the divide between your screen and your brain.
Intermz.com is a free Web encyclopedia that aims to make a wide range of information easier to understand by utilizing a unique content delivery method: It puts information that interests its users in terms of knowledge its users already have. Intermz.com creator Ted Pin says, "Learning new information in context of what you already know is probably the most effective and natural way to grasp any new concept. Intermz.com allows individuals who understand the relationships between two different topics to contribute content for others to learn from."
Pin hopes that Intermz.com will help students learn course-work much more quickly and help people pick up new hobbies. He explains: "Imagine you are a mountain biker and you are interested in martial arts. Intermz.com can give you an explanation of martial arts in terms of mountain biking by noting, for instance, how rhythm, tempo, and focus apply to both activities. This makes learning martial arts incredibly fast for mountain bikers, who are already familiar with those concepts. Now imagine being able to do that for any topic you want to, in terms of anything you might already know: writing in terms of sports, philosophy in terms of carpentry, math in terms of video games. It's endless, really."
"The concept of using the relationships between bits of information to learn is not exactly new," Pin says. In fact, psychologist Jean Piaget was one of the first to describe a theory of knowledge assimilation in which people use the connections between new information and what they already know to learn. Intermz.com expands on the idea by letting users find and learn information that has already been put into assimilated form by fellow users.
Intermz.com, the free encyclopedia that helps you learn anything, fast, was launched November 2007.
About Intermz.com™
Intermz.com was created by Ted Pin and is based in Ann Arbor, Mich. The site was built for academics, information mavens, and people interested in learning new things quickly by offering a free tool to radically change the online learning process by allowing members to associate new information with topics they're already well-versed in.
For more information, including details regarding Intermz.com's methodology, please visit www.intermz.com or contact Ted Pin at (727) 244-7309.
Contact Info:
Ted Pin
Intermz.com
386 Village Green Blvd, 202
Ann Arbor, MI 48105
Phone: (727) 244-7309
Web: www.intermz.com