LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

We have just added the following features to LiveBinders: Better searching for educational binders – You can now find educational binders by topic and grade level.  Under “LiveBinder Categories” on the “Featured Binders” page, click on “*More Education.”  You can also share these searches with others.  Try it here. Manage your uploaded documents – Now […]

Thanks to all the requests from the LiveBinders community, this is our first step to making LiveBinders more personally customizable – new colors! In the edit menu, under properties, there is a pull-down menu to select the color: Try it out at LiveBinders. Thanks to everyone for sending in those requests!

We wanted to let you know that we have added a comment feature in “LiveBinder It” – You can now add a comment to a page that you are adding to a binder using “LiveBinder It”. Here is where the comment will be inserted in your binder: We want to thank everyone who participated in […]

We are celebrating Earth Day with a podcast with Dean Mantz featuring thoughts and ideas about going paperless in the classroom. We were very fortunate to be joined by Steve Katz and Elaine Plybon who shared their experiences and ideas. We also got a great recording from Joquetta Johnson on her promotion of the paperless […]

Thank you to all those educators that are teaching other educators about LiveBinders! We have put together a simple presentation (in this binder of course) that you can modify for your own use as you spread the word about LiveBinders. LiveBinders Instructional Materials Please let us know if you need anything else at info@livebinders.com.

Dean Mantz posted a great overview of LiveBinders on his blog. He goes into some detail on how educators can use and easily get started with LiveBinders. LiveBinders has also been featured on several other teacher blogs.  Here is that collection: LiveBinders in blogs

We wanted to let you know that we have added several new features to LiveBinders over the last few weeks: More tabs – You are no longer limited to 20 tabs in your binder.  Now, when you go over 20 tabs, there will be arrows on either side that let you scroll through your tabs: […]

We have added a few new features to LiveBinders: Share a shelf – You can easily share an author’s collection of public binders. Just click on the author’s name (or your name) under a binder, you will then see their shelf page with all their public binders. On the right will be a url that […]

In response to several requests, we have added the following features to LiveBinders: No Copy Option – You now have a choice as to whether your public binders can be copied. By default, all binders can be copied.  To change your public binder to disable copy, go to  Edit Menu > Properties > Access and […]

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 […]