LiveBinders Tips & Tricks
Nominate Your Top 10 Binders for 2012!
It’s that time of year again when we let you decide which of the great binders you used this year makes it on the Top 10 List. Last year we had 29 entries out of over 100,000 public binders. We look forward to seeing all the great LiveBinders you’ve used this year. To make your […]
LiveBinders on Your Website or Blog – A Couple More Options
We added a couple more features to LiveBinders over the weekend. You can now embed an open binder in your blog or website (if your blog supports iframes). We also added a way to add a “LiveBinder It” button to your blog or website. Embedding an Open Binder If your blog supports iframes, you can […]
New Player/Editor Features are Live!
The new features listed below are now up on the LiveBinders site. But I forgot to mention one of the new features in my previous post. You can now add collaborators from inside the binder. Just click on the “Add” pull down in the upper right corner of the binder. 1. More Readable Tabs The […]
Changes to the Editor/Player on Their Way
We would like to share some more changes to LiveBinders that will be released in the next couple of weeks. We didn’t want to surprise those of you who are teaching classes on LiveBinders. 1. More Readable Tabs The most significant change is that main tabs will now be of a variable width and will […]
Events
We just added an events page to LiveBinders.com. We want to make sure we meet you if we are attending any of the same events. Are you going to ISTE in San Diego? We would love to have you come by the booth and share your binders with us and others. We have created a […]
A New Look/Navigation for LiveBinders Shelves
Tina and I are very excited to announce a new look for the LiveBinders shelf! We believe this look, combined with more logical navigation, will make it easier to find your way around the LiveBinders site. Special thanks on this release go to Dawn Wall, Dean Mantz, and Mike Fisher for the valuable input that […]
Our New Look – Coming February 19!
Thanks to all of your wonderful feedback, we have begun making changes to the overall look of the website. Our objective with this release is to make navigation easier and your binder shelves more accessible. Here is just a glimpse of what the website will look like and highlights of some of the changes. Color […]
Our New iPad App
Thanks to feedback from our community, we are proud to announce the first version of our iPad app! Our iPad app allows you to stay logged into your account and quickly access your binders and your custom shelves. The app will launch your binder in play or edit mode in the Safari browser where you […]
Changes in iPad Support and Our Present Feature
We have two small changes to talk about today. The first is for the iPad. Previously you were not able to scroll content in the iPad. We have implemented a short-term fix for this by adding “Less” and “More” buttons at the bottom of the window on the iPad. By clicking on these buttons, you […]
Some Libraries You Just Have to See
Tina and I are always awestruck at the amazing binders that are assembled by the LiveBinders’ community. I know lots of teachers who search for binders first before trying to create their own lesson plans. I thought I would take a minute to showcase some of the amazing teachers, principals, educational consultants, technology coordinators, and […]
A Couple of Changes to the “LiveBinder It” Bookmarklet
We just did a couple of updates to “LiveBinder It” that you may notice the next time you use it. Someone in our LiveBinders community pointed out that if you save a page to a subtab with “LiveBinder It”, we used to remove that part of the menu after it was done saving. This may […]
The All-Important Conference Handout
I know that when I speak at conferences that the most common questions are: “Can I have a copy of your slides?” and “Can you provide that url again?” Conference handouts are a very important part of your presentation. Your talk is often so information rich that it can’t possibly be adequately absorbed in just […]