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 choose “Public – Copy Disabled” Copy from Within a Binder – Now you can create a copy of a binder from within the binder you are viewing.  To copy, make sur... Read Full Story

It is so much fun to go to the LiveBinders site and see all the new ways that educators are using LiveBinders.  Everyday that I go to the site I see a new interesting binder,  so I thought it would be great to highlight some of examples in this post: ePortfolios – I think Jackie Gerstein created one of the first ePortfolios on LiveBinders and it is still one of the best: Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Computer Lab – Are you always finding more sites that you want to share in the comput... Read Full Story

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 any time later. ‘LiveBinder It’ testing.  Some urls don’t like to sit in the binder (like Twitter) so we have to insert them as links.  We now test for this when you are using R... Read Full Story

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 this wiki and let us know your thoughts. Also, here are some tips and tricks for those of you who are building LiveBinders to share with others: LiveBinders Tips and Tricks... Read Full Story

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 is my favorite thing about LiveBinders – knowing exactly where to find everything. Even though I have over 250 binders and thousands of links and documents, I still know exactly where... Read Full Story

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 click on the author name to do a “search by author”. This lets you click on the author’s name of the binder on the “Featured Binders” shelf and see all t... Read Full Story

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 and to that web page. Live Link in the Binder Change Email Address We also had requests to be able to change your email address. You can now do that. To change any information in your profile, just click ... Read Full Story

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 help that student reach their goals. We can’t show you examples of these binders because they are private. But here some more of Mr. Lester’... Read Full Story

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, but they will open outside of the binder. Uploading pdfs still is not yet working. We fixed a problem with ‘LiveBinder It’. ‘LiveBinder It’ our bookmarklet, wa... Read Full Story

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 use to help further their child’s education at home. I am hoping to add other binders with different content presentations to allow a child to view content explained in... Read Full Story