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Jan 23, 2012, 12:40 am
Thanks to feedback from our community, we are proud to announce our first version iPad App!
Our iPad app allows you to stay logged into your account and quickly access your binders and your custom shelves. The App will launch your binder in play or edit mode in the Safari browser where you can us... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2011, 9:27 pm
We have two small changes to talk about today. The first is for the iPad. Previously you were not able to scroll content in the iPad. We have implemented a short-term fix for this by adding “Less” and “More” buttons at the bottom of the window on the iPad. By clicking on these buttons, you c... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 7:08 pm
Tina and I are always awestruck at the amazing binders that are assembled by the LiveBinders community. I know lots of teachers who just search for binders before trying to create their own lesson plans. I thought I would take a minute to show case some of the amazing teachers, principals, educati... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 12:03 am
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 have left you... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 5:40 pm
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 adeq... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2011, 12:08 pm
Dean Mantz created a great video on how to use the recently announced features in LiveBinders.
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 Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2011, 12:08 am
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 t... Comment - Like
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Aug 11, 2011, 12:43 am
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 y... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2011, 11:41 pm
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:
Collaborate with a group on multiple binde... Comment - Like
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Jun 27, 2011, 11:25 am
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... Comment - Like
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The Scented Garden
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Jun 15, 2011, 10:20 am
Since I was headed to a meeting at someone’s house locally, I decided to Google their house and just get a visual so that I would recognize it when I saw it. I thought the picture was rather unflattering and wondered it is was just Google, so I Googled my house. Oh my! The only thing this picture... Comment - Like
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Jun 7, 2011, 9:11 pm
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. Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 12:03 pm
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... Comment - Like
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May 18, 2011, 12:02 am
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 CONGRATULATION... Comment - Like
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May 17, 2011, 2:24 pm
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... Comment - Like
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Apr 18, 2011, 1:35 pm
This post is updated as we have added some more features.
You can now add your public binder shelf to your blog or website. It will look something like this (but it actually be live if your blog is hosted on something other than WordPress):
Unfortunately WordPress hosted blogs (like this one) w... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2011, 4:24 pm
Barbara, Dean and I have been having a blast sharing student projects with teachers on our Knowledge Sharing webinars and various other podcasts like the recent Classroom 2.0 podcast. Since student binders are a real interest during these podcasts, it occurred to us that we should make a top 1... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2011, 8:59 pm
New Colors
We had a complaint from some students that all the LiveBinders colors were all rather dull. So for spring, we bring you hot pink, neon green, and cherry red!
Login with Email Address
Do you keep forgetting your LiveBinders user name? Well you can login to LiveBinders with either your... Comment - Like
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Mar 3, 2011, 3:17 pm
We are working on an administrative interface for LiveBinders so that a teacher could sign up a group of students all at once and have the forgotten password emails come back to them. We have a couple of questions on how you would like this to work:
1. Would you like to upload a .csv file of stude... Comment - Like
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Feb 27, 2011, 5:40 pm
LiveBinders has an age restriction because we are not allowed to collect email addresses from children who are under 13. Unfortunately, we need an email address in case a student forgets their password.
You can work around this however, if you have a gmail account. You can sign up your students u... Comment - Like
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Feb 27, 2011, 5:38 pm
We had a fabulous turn out for the Classroom 2.0 show where we featured classroom uses of LiveBinders. Listen and watch the show here.
Steven Anderson shared his twitter binder:
An Educators Guide To Twitter
Karen Bolotin shared her Animal Web Cam and Classroom printables binder:
Amazing A... Comment - Like
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Feb 16, 2011, 9:57 am
We added two new colors to LiveBinders today, Steel-Tan and Steel-Blue.
To use the new colors, just use the pull-down menu under Edit Menu > Properties > Color. Then click on “Update”.
We also simplified finding the “Start a Blank Binder” page and the “LiveBinder It” page, so that ... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2011, 3:08 pm
My son just completed his science project. (The topic was, “Which is smarter, his cat or his friend’s dog?”) It had to be done on a huge poster board and he also printed lots of pictures and stuck them to the poster board. When it was time to bring it in, I had to drive him to school bec... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2011, 12:12 am
Happy New Year! Our new year’s gift to our LiveBinders friends is the ability to easily move tabs to subtabs and move subtabs up to tabs. Thanks for hanging with us on this one, we know that it took us a while to get there. But we appreciate all the emails asking for this feature.
To try ou... Comment - Like
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Dec 10, 2010, 10:21 pm
Thank you to everyone who asked us for collaboration features. Now you can have multiple people creating and editing the same LiveBinder. Here are just some of the uses that educators came up with for this feature:
Student group projects – in your class or with a school across the country
Teacher... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2010, 12:04 am
We have added a new feature to LiveBinders that allows you to display an author name other than your user name. You may want to do this if you want to use your real name, your twitter ID, or if you are collaborating with someone and want to use both your names.
Your user name will still show as b... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2010, 11:32 pm
I’m doing a presentation next week for some educators at the elementary school level to introduce them to social media. I would love to include your “Ah ha!” moments, when you realized the value of social media. What made twitter and other social media valuable to you?
I’d also love any ot... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2010, 7:49 pm
We had a wonderful podcast last night where Dean Mantz, in collaboration with Tina and Barbara from LiveBinders, interviewed Steven Anderson on 21st Century Professional Development.
The archive is here.
Thank you Steven and Dean for a wonderful, insightful session! Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2010, 11:10 pm
Thank you to everyone who sent in feature requests! We have added some of your requests to this release including:
Searching just the educational category. Now you can search just the binders in the educational category by entering your terms in the “Educational Searches” menu. First click ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2010, 9:05 pm
First it was Mike Fisher’s awesome rap song about LiveBinders.
Then, this week, ajwoodle did this video . We couldn’t have made a better commercial ourselves!
We deeply appreciate everyone spreading the word about LiveBinders. Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2010, 10:45 pm
I have the honor of talking to high school seniors on “career day” this Wednesday at my local high school. I will be talking about working in the Information Technology industry.
But I could sure use some help! I have two 45 minute spots. I’m happy to talk about my experience in the indust... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2010, 11:33 am
We had to role LiveBinders over to other servers this morning. That means DNS may have a problem finding LiveBinders if you have it cached.
If this is the case for you, just go to http://server4.livebinders.com for the next few hours. Please don’t bookmark this site, your browser should ... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2010, 3:52 pm
We have been busy at LiveBinders. Thanks to the input from teachers around the world using LiveBinders, we have added a few more features:
Private Copyable Binder – Now you can create a private binder that can be copied. This is useful if you want to make a master binder for students to cop... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2010, 8:36 pm
Lately, we’ve been seeing blog posts and tweets about teachers’ emerging interest in replacing their text books with ‘techbooks.’ If you look up ‘techbook’ on the internet you’ll find that it refers to technical handbooks for IT and software applications, but what we are seeing is so... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2010, 12:04 am
Every day we enjoy going to the LiveBinders site too see what people have created. More and more we are seeing great binder authors who have created entire libraries of incredibly useful content. I wanted to take just a minute to draw your attention to some of these amazing educators:
xmath –... Comment - Like
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Jul 25, 2010, 8:40 pm
Everyday Barbara and I enjoy checking out the ‘recent’ Featured shelf on our website and continue to find so many interesting and creative ways in which educators are organizing their resources. We thought it was time to highlight another 10 great binders for you to enjoy.
Virtual Summer Camp... Comment - Like
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Jul 19, 2010, 7:43 pm
The American Association of School Librarians has selected LiveBinders as one of their Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning.
Here is what they said about LiveBinders: “This fun and easy-to-use site makes it easy to organize and share sources. Teachers can use it as a presentation too... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2010, 11:24 am
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 the... Comment - Like
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Jun 6, 2010, 12:07 am
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 thos... Comment - Like
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May 2, 2010, 12:16 am
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 part... Comment - Like
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Apr 22, 2010, 2:27 pm
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 pr... Comment - Like
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Apr 12, 2010, 1:21 pm
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... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2010, 12:03 pm
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 Comment - Like
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