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Blog 15: Livebinders
I want to start this blog by telling you all, that I am
so glad that I learned about this great Web 2.0 tool. I have no doubt that
LiveBinders will enhance any teacher’s classroom and the way we deliver
information to our students. I learned that LiveBinders is an electronic
portfolio that allows us to organize, bookmark, and share online content. This
is a bookmarking tool that facilitates the organization of the information
found online. So instead of saving the website links in other bookmarking
services like Delicious for example, LiveBinders can organize your links into
tabs accessible with just a click away.
LiveBinders uses Binders, which are urls of websites that
you can share with other people online. Since teachers are always busy in their
classroom creating, organizing, and storing lesson plans, they are able to use
this great tool to get organized online. Teachers and students can use
LiveBinders as an online resource to create a virtual binder.
LiveBinders allows teachers and students to put almost
anything into the binder. Teachers and students
can link webpages and YouTube videos or just put documents, images, and videos
inside their LiveBinders. They also have the option of creating different tabs
and sub tabs just as you would do in a tangible binder. It is a content sharing
tool that helps you go paperless and be more efficient. LiveBinders lets you collect
your resources, organize them neatly, and easily present them with in the
classroom. Some of the other ways that LiveBinders can be used include the
following: 1) Class Notes - Students can create a notebook for every class.
Notes are entered from their computers in class and can be edited from home. Students
can add journal entries throughout the week, which can be turned in to the
teacher for review. 2) Club Minutes - Students can organized and store minutes
for different school clubs, such as the honor society, glee club, chess club,
etc. Those minutes will be available for review by school officials as needed.
3) History/Science/Math Projects – As the students gather resources on their
assignments for different topics, they can organize them into drafts,
appendices, and final projects, thus making them readily available for the
teacher to review and grade. Teachers can combine this with Jing, which is a
Web 2.0 application that can be used to capture pictures and record audio and
video. 4) Teacher Lesson Plans – You can collect all of the resources needed
for a lesson plan, organize everything, and once saved in LiveBinders, it will
be ready for presentation whenever necessary.
Hi Enrique, I agree with you LiveBinders will enhance any teacher’s classroom and the way we deliver information to our students. You are right LiveBinders uses Binders, which are urls of websites that teachers can share with other people online. Since teachers are always busy in their classroom creating, organizing, and storing lesson plans, they are able to use this great tool to get organized online. Teachers and students can use LiveBinders as an online resource to create a virtual binder.
ReplyDeleteEnrique,
ReplyDeleteI, too, believe that LiveBinders is a great organizational tool for our students. In addition, to lessening the paperwork and making of copies this program can help our students keep track of their work through the tabs and subtabs. These binders can be used for a single class or like you said, for all of their courses. Regardless, it is a great tool for both educators and students.
Enrique,
ReplyDeleteI really like LiveBinders also. At first, I thought it was going to be complicated to use, but once I found how easy it was to set up tabs and sub tabs I saw the benefit of it. I liked all of your ideas on how students can use the LiveBinders down to taking minutes for each club that they are in.
Hi Enrique:
ReplyDeleteI like you idea about organize student projects in digital binders. Your students can use LiveBinders to include tabs and sub-tabs that links to different types of subject material as well as tabs and sub-tabs that links to libraries and other learning resources depending on the subject, the grade and the project to be developed.
Jorge Villarreal.