LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

We are very pleased to announce this feature since so many of you have requested it! Now you can create your own shelves to organize not only your binders, but other people’s binders as well. Here are some reasons that you might want to create shelves: To collaborate with a group on multiple binders To […]

First, congratulations to all of the 29 LiveBinder entries – out of over 100,000 binders, your binders were selected as a Top 10 Contender and that’s worth mentioning!  And to our Top 10 Favorite LiveBinder winners – double Congratulations are in order!! For Barbara and I, it was so much fun to see the good […]

With over 100,000 binders in LiveBinders, we want to make sure everyone sees the really great binders. Thank you for all the nominations! Now you can vote for your favorite LiveBinder here. Nominations for Your Favorite LiveBinder Results will be announced at ISTE 2011.

Thanks to those of you who sent in requests for this feature, you can now create a binder cover by uploading an image into your LiveBinder. You can upload either .jpgs or .gifs for your binder cover. Simply upload the file into a tab or subtab, then click on “Change Thumbnail” under “Binder Properties” in […]

Michael Fisher’s “iPads in School” Binder is quickly reaching 100,000 views! This is the most views of any binder on the LiveBinders site! In celebration of this milestone, Mike is running a contest for lesson plans to include in the binder. LiveBinders want to extend a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Mike for creating this amazing resource! […]

Please join us on Wednesday May 25th at 9:15am pdt, 10:15am mdt, 11:15am cdt, and 12:15pm edt when we will listen to Jason Schrage’s 8th grade class talk about their Cold War project and how they created their own text book for learning. Click here to go to the Learn Central page for this webinar.

This post is updated as we have added some more features. You can now add your public binder shelf to your blog or website.  It will look something like this (but it actually be live if your blog is hosted on something other than WordPress): Unfortunately WordPress hosted blogs (like this one) will not allow […]

  Barbara, Dean and I have been having a blast sharing student projects with teachers on our Knowledge Sharing webinars and various other podcasts like the recent Classroom 2.0 podcast.  Since student binders are a real interest during these podcasts, it occurred to us that we should make a top 10 list of some great […]

New Colors We had a complaint from some students that all the LiveBinders colors were all rather dull. So for spring, we bring you hot pink, neon green, and cherry red! Login with Email Address Do you keep forgetting your LiveBinders user name? Well you can login to LiveBinders with either your email address or […]

We are working on an administrative interface for LiveBinders so that a teacher could sign up a group of students all at once and have the forgotten password emails come back to them. We have a couple of questions on how you would like this to work: 1. Would you like to upload a .csv […]

LiveBinders has an age restriction because we are not allowed to collect email addresses from children who are under 13. Unfortunately, we need an email address in case a student forgets their password. You can work around this however, if you have a gmail account.  You can sign up your students using your gmail account […]

We had a fabulous turn out for the Classroom 2.0 show where we featured classroom uses of LiveBinders.  Listen and watch the show here. Steven Anderson shared his twitter binder: An Educators Guide To Twitter Karen Bolotin shared her Animal Web Cam and Classroom printables binder: Amazing Animal Webcams Classroom Printables Dawn Wall shared her […]