LiveBinders Tips & Tricks

Tina and I are always awestruck at the amazing binders that are assembled by the LiveBinders’ community. I know lots of teachers who search for binders first before trying to create their own lesson plans. I thought I would take a minute to showcase some of the amazing teachers, principals, educational consultants, technology coordinators, and […]

We just did a couple of updates to “LiveBinder It” that you may notice the next time you use it. Someone in our LiveBinders community pointed out that if you save a page to a subtab with “LiveBinder It”, we used to remove that part of the menu after it was done saving. This may […]

I know that when I speak at conferences that the most common questions are: “Can I have a copy of your slides?” and “Can you provide that url again?” Conference handouts are a very important part of your presentation. Your talk is often so information rich that it can’t possibly be adequately absorbed in just […]

Dean Mantz created a great video on how to use the recently announced features in LiveBinders. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nkFaXRPeQc&feature=youtu.be] You may also want to check out scling’s binder on embedded all sorts of fun things into a LiveBinder: A Guide on Embedding Objects and HTML Editor

We love our LiveBinders community! Everyone always has helpful suggestions and ideas on how to improve LiveBinders. This one was requested by many of you. You felt like the subtabs were not visible enough in the binder. We polled a few of the people in our community with some ideas and this was the design […]

We are very excited to announce our new text editor in LiveBinders. You can now easily insert links and pictures into the text sections on LiveBinders. This is a quick look, but we will create a tutorial for this soon. Thank you to everyone who asked for this feature, we appreciate hearing from you!

We are very pleased to announce this feature since so many of you have requested it! Now you can create your own shelves to organize not only your binders, but other people’s binders as well. Here are some reasons that you might want to create shelves: To collaborate with a group on multiple binders To […]

First, congratulations to all of the 29 LiveBinder entries – out of over 100,000 binders, your binders were selected as a Top 10 Contender and that’s worth mentioning!  And to our Top 10 Favorite LiveBinder winners – double Congratulations are in order!! For Barbara and I, it was so much fun to see the good […]

With over 100,000 binders in LiveBinders, we want to make sure everyone sees the really great binders. Thank you for all the nominations! Now you can vote for your favorite LiveBinder here. Nominations for Your Favorite LiveBinder Results will be announced at ISTE 2011.

Thanks to those of you who sent in requests for this feature, you can now create a binder cover by uploading an image into your LiveBinder. You can upload either .jpgs or .gifs for your binder cover. Simply upload the file into a tab or subtab, then click on “Change Thumbnail” under “Binder Properties” in […]

Michael Fisher’s “iPads in School” Binder is quickly reaching 100,000 views! This is the most views of any binder on the LiveBinders site! In celebration of this milestone, Mike is running a contest for lesson plans to include in the binder. LiveBinders want to extend a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Mike for creating this amazing resource! […]

Please join us on Wednesday May 25th at 9:15am pdt, 10:15am mdt, 11:15am cdt, and 12:15pm edt when we will listen to Jason Schrage’s 8th grade class talk about their Cold War project and how they created their own text book for learning. Click here to go to the Learn Central page for this webinar.