LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

It is so much fun to go to the LiveBinders site and see all the new ways that educators are using LiveBinders to curate content.  Every day that I go to the site I see a new interesting binder, so I thought it would be great to highlight some great examples in this post: ePortfolios – I […]

Now you can import delicious bookmarks directly into a LiveBinder. Here is how you do it. We also made a couple other changes to LiveBinders: Binders will now default to private.  When you create a new binder, the default setting will be private, but you can change it at the time you create it or […]

Educators have been creating some great LiveBinders that are excellent resources for other educators. We thought we would pull them together in this wiki as a Library of LiveBinders organized by subject and grade level. We would love to hear your input on other ways to organize these great binders. Please take a look at […]

When someone just tweeted that they needed a source for free powerpoint templates and backgrounds, it took me just seconds to find the template site that I have used in the past – even though it has been over year since I used it.  I knew it was in my presentation binder: Product Presentations That […]

We just put up a new release of LiveBinders. This has fixes for bugs reported by Peter and Andrew including some sites that wouldn’t work with “LiveBinder It” and some IE8 issues. Thank you to both of you for reporting the problems to us! A new feature added in this release is the ability to […]

Live Link We had several teachers who requested the ability to open the web page from within the binder – essentially escape the confines of the binder. So now, in play or full screen mode, the link in the binder is a live link. Clicking on that link will take you out of the binder […]

Mr. Lester has been busy figuring out new ways to use binders in his teaching. He recently came up with the idea of using private binders for student-parent-teacher communication. A private binder can have the student’s individual goals in a place where everyone can find them. The binder can have websites and materials designed to […]

We just added a new dashboard feature to LiveBinders so that you can track the activity on your binders and see when you have new comments. Also with this release we are still working on the file upload problem. Our apologies for not having this completely working yet. Right now you can upload word documents, […]

Mr. Lester has made some great binders. If you haven’t seen them, some are included below. But he has also thought of other ideas for using LiveBinders to help his students. Here are some of Mr. Lester’s ideas: Bookmarking – I am using livebinders now as a tool to give parents websites that they can […]

We have a teacher who is using LiveBinders in her class with her lesson plans and websites projected up on the screen. She asked that we create a way to show a binder without all the information around the binder that might distract her 5th grade students. So we added a ‘full screen’ mode to […]

We have now added a comments feature to LiveBinders so that you can comment on binders in the same way that you would comment on a blog. You just press the comment button at the bottom of the binder. You must be logged in to leave comments.

Ms. Kellogg also had another a great suggestion for using LiveBinders in the computer lab. Step 1. Create a LiveBinder with the pre-approved sites for the school, something like this one: Websites for Kids Step 2. Drag this binder to the desktop of every computer in the computer lab. The students then click on the […]