LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

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 […]

Ms. Kellogg has created a binder full of interesting sites for her 2nd grade students to explore over the summer. She put the binder up on her wonderful website. (When you look at her website, be sure to check out the great “how to” videos that her students created at the bottom of her site.) […]

We just added two easy ways to share a binder.  You can now email a binder to some one else while you are viewing that binder.  You can also easy tweet a binder from within the binder. To see how this works, click on a binder to open it.  Then click on one of the […]

We just added a new way to easily share private binders.  If you want to keep your binder private, but still share it with several people, you can.  You just enter a pass key in the binder properties.  Then when you email the url to someone let them know the pass key.  They will be […]