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One way to describe Susie Tiggs commitment and dedication to the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) community can be realized by her LiveBinders stats. Since she started with LiveBinders, Susie has created some 300 binders, curating over 9 thousand resources in these binders, and garnering hundreds of thousands of views.  She is the Texas […]

Susan Brooks-Young started sharing resources on digital literacy back in 2011 in her online digital binder called: Building Blocks for Digital Citizenship. Initially the subject occupied a single tab titled “Truth Matters” where Susan shared teaching resources to help students learn how to differentiate authentic information from fabrication. 9 years later and it is clear […]

Joy Kirr started using LiveBinders as a way to document what she calls “passion projects.” Genius Hour was her first passion project, which is the idea of allowing students to lead and explore their own learning interests for up to 20% of their class time.  She was excited to start implementing Genius Hour in her classroom, […]

Long before Covid19 transformed the landscape of classroom teaching, LiveBinders users John Dahlgren and Peggy Hohensee were figuring out how to better navigate their college institution’s learning management system (LMS) protocols. Both had one objective in mind: to make it easier for students to find their class materials. They discovered that LiveBinders could be a […]

How One Librarian Made a Difference On March 12th, 2020, literally days before all of our lives changed by the COVID-19 lock down, Linda Houle (a long time LiveBinders curator) and I Zoomed with Elizabeth Kahn, the Library Media Specialist at Patrict Taylor Science and Technology Academy in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, to talk about her […]

We often discover great public binders on our website that we feature on Twitter, Facebook and our Featured binders page.  Although they have been perfect avenues for highlighting great resources, what’s been missing over the years is a deep dive into the why and how of these binders. We’ve had the privilege of hearing great […]

How quickly our lives have changed amid the COVID-19 pandemic! We won’t count the ways in this post, but what hasn’t changed, and will not change, is the need to demonstrate good manners with those with whom we interact. The social distancing and self-isolation practices that have been implemented to keep us safe in this […]

Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all of you who have taken the big step of social distancing to help all of us #flattenthecurve of the COVID19 virus.  It is proving to be the best course of action.  We also want to send our thanks and support to the doctors, nurses and caretakers who are […]

We are pleased to announce a new feature for our subscribers – unlisted access! This allows you to create a binder anyone with a link can access, but it won’t be included in search results on the LiveBinders site, Google, or other search engines. This new feature gives our subscribers the ability to create a […]

Our Team plan allows users to manage multiple LiveBinders accounts from an administrator’s panel.  In addition, the Team plan lets members mark their binders with a team plan privacy setting formerly known as ‘limited access,’  now known as ‘team access.’  ‘Limited access’ gives private restrictions to a binder, similar to ‘private access’, but makes it […]

As a follow-up to my blog post on the power of goal writing for students, I did some more research around resiliency, and started learning more about executive functions. According to www.beyondbooksmart.com, executive function are skills that students need for the following: Managing time Organizing thoughts and materials Paying attention Planning and prioritizing Getting started (task […]

We recently learned about #DigitalLearningDay happening on February 28th and asked for requests to share your #digitalbinder libraries on that day. Here are some of the curated content that was shared. Lynda Sisson was kind enough to share her course binders from New Zealand Lisa Timmerman shared her GTi Tier 1 resources for gifted and talented […]