LiveBinders Tips & Tricks
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 […]
Great Video of How to Use New LiveBinders Features
Dean Mantz created a great video on how to use the recently announced features in LiveBinders. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nkFaXRPeQc&feature=youtu.be] You may also want to check out scling’s binder on embedded all sorts of fun things into a LiveBinder: A Guide on Embedding Objects and HTML Editor
Visual Subtabs
We love our LiveBinders community! Everyone always has helpful suggestions and ideas on how to improve LiveBinders. This one was requested by many of you. You felt like the subtabs were not visible enough in the binder. We polled a few of the people in our community with some ideas and this was the design […]
New Text Editor in LiveBinders
We are very excited to announce our new text editor in LiveBinders. You can now easily insert links and pictures into the text sections on LiveBinders. This is a quick look, but we will create a tutorial for this soon. Thank you to everyone who asked for this feature, we appreciate hearing from you!