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Education: SurfWax Scholar Effective Web-based technology for today's schools.SurfWax Scholar is a student-centric Web-based service that helps schools integrate technology with curriculum, improve information literacy, and reinforce academic integrity. Scholar can be used from school, home, the library; from anywhere, anytime. Scholar is 100% Web-based--no downloads, nothing to install. Scholar seamlessly integrates essential tools into one easy process: 1--Plagiarism checking by automatically comparing student work to content on the Web and to other sources. 2--Secure, personal digital lockers for saving and sharing any type of document; for assignments, projects, teacher syllabus, school announcements, parent communication, student portfolios. 3--Safe searching of hundreds of thousands of subject-based Web pages to provide immediate integration of technology with school curriculum. 4--Secure, school-based email/messaging for students and staff. Unique Benefits of SurfWax Scholar. * Fast, effective research for homework, projects and papers * Students can do Web-based research from anywhere (home, library, school), at anytime * Safe, targeted searching of educationally-appropriate sources on the Web * Personal repository ("digital locker") of information and documents -- all of which can be shared! No more need to swap disks or to send email attachments. And Scholar handles big files; some students' PowerPoint files can get very large -- Scholar let's the students access these files from anywhere at anytime * Information summarization and collaboration * Automatic plagiarism checking * Easy, digital distribution of School-Teacher-Students announcements and policies * Teacher-Student communication (syllabus, announcements, assignments) * Digital assignment coordination and classroom management aide * Teacher-Teacher curriculum planning and exchange * School document archiving 
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