using in the classroom

Using in the ClassroomChris Walter

August 2012

Mt. Healthy Amazing Race PD

Your 3-Ring Binder for the Web

What can you expect from this session?

• Become acquainted with Livebinders as a tool to collect, organize and share resources with students, colleagues and parents

• Develop ideas on how you could use Livebinders in your classrooms

• View and save established public binders in many subject areas

• Register and create your own bookshelf for favorite binders• Begin your own Livebinder• Share your ideas and findings with others

Let’s take a look at Livebinders.com

Livebinders in your classroom…

Class assignments, project details, and targeted resources

(no more typing urls

Seasonal or topical activities (Civil War, 2012 election, Christmas, Edgar Allan

Poe, poetry, etc.)

Enrichment and/or differentiation activities

Station assignments and activities for classroom PCs or PC lab

OAA and OGT resources, activities, and practice tests

Development of student e-portfolios

So let’s explore some Livebinders…

LiveBinder Bookmark Tool

Click on the “Tools” tab at the top of your page and select the top link for LiveBinder It Bookmark tool. This will allow you to save websites to your own binders as you browse.

Tutorials available in LiveBinder

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Developing Your Own Binder…

Return to your dashboard and find the Start a Blank Binder icon.

So here is what your new binder will look like…

Click “Quick Guide” for more help

Tips and Tricks

Plan your binder – I type topics and subtopics in before I begin to popular the binder. You can always change/add/delete tabs but it gives you a structure for your binder.

To upload Word documents, you must “save as” in PDF format.

You can create your documents in Google Docs and it will automatically update in LiveBinders whenever you make changes.

SAVE FREQUENTLY!!!!

Now It’s Your Turn…

Your Exit Ticket…

Go to www.mthtechwiki.wikispaces.com

Professional Development link on the left

Complete the Corkboard Me activity (be sure you select the Livebinders activity)