LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

We added two new colors to LiveBinders today, Steel-Tan and Steel-Blue. To use the new colors, just use the pull-down menu under Edit Menu >  Properties > Color.  Then click on “Update”. We also simplified finding the “Start a Blank Binder” page and the “LiveBinder It” page, so that both are visible from any of […]

My son just completed his science project.  (The topic was, “Which is smarter, his cat or his friend’s dog?”)  It had to be done on a huge poster board and he also printed lots of pictures and stuck them to the poster board.  When it was time to bring it in, I had to drive […]

Happy New Year!  Our new year’s gift to our LiveBinders friends is the ability to easily move tabs to subtabs and move subtabs up to tabs.  Thanks for hanging with us on this one, we know that it took us a while to get there.  But we appreciate all the emails asking for this feature. […]

Thank you to everyone who asked us for collaboration features. Now you can have multiple people creating and editing the same LiveBinder. Here are just some of the uses that educators came up with for this feature: Student group projects – in your class or with a school across the country Teachers collaborating on lesson […]

We have added a new feature to LiveBinders that allows you to display an author name other than your user name.  You may want to do this if you want to use your real name, your twitter ID, or if you are collaborating with someone and want to use both your names. Your user name […]

I’m doing a presentation next week for some educators at the elementary school level to introduce them to social media. I would love to include your “Ah ha!” moments, when you realized the value of social media. What made twitter and other social media valuable to you? I’d also love any other advice or examples […]

We had a wonderful podcast last night where Dean Mantz, in collaboration with Tina and Barbara from LiveBinders, interviewed Steven Anderson on 21st Century Professional Development. The archive is here. Thank you Steven and Dean for a wonderful, insightful session!

Thank you to everyone who sent in feature requests! We have added some of your requests to this release including: Searching  just the educational category. Now you can search just the binders in the educational category by entering your terms in the “Educational Searches” menu.  First click on the “More Education” link.  Then you can […]

First it was Mike Fisher’s awesome rap song about LiveBinders.   Then, this week, ajwoodle did this video [viddler id=659aa23f&w=437&h=288]. We couldn’t have made a better commercial ourselves! We deeply appreciate everyone spreading the word about LiveBinders.

I have the honor of talking to high school seniors on “career day” this Wednesday at my local high school. I will be talking about working in the Information Technology industry. But I could sure use some help! I have two 45 minute spots. I’m happy to talk about my experience in the industry, my […]

We have been busy at LiveBinders.  Thanks to the input from teachers around the world using LiveBinders, we have added a few more features: Private Copyable Binder – Now you can create a private binder that can be copied.  This is useful if you want to make a master binder for students to copy, but […]

Lately, we’ve been seeing blog posts and tweets about teachers’ emerging interest in replacing their textbooks with “techbooks.” If you look up “techbook” on the internet you’ll find that it refers to technical handbooks for IT and software applications, but what we are seeing is something different. Our teachers are gathering documents, internet links, and web […]