LiveBinders

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What Is It?
LiveBinder is your FREE 3 ring binder for the web. PDFs, images, videos and websites can be combined with active links within a binder. Links and documents can be organized into tabs and subtabs. LiveBinders are easy to share from the LiveBinder website, on desktops, or embedded in blogs or other websites. View a video overview of LiveBinder.
 * Collect your resources
 * Organize them quickly and easily
 * Present them to the world, share with a designated audience or keep them private

Resources

 * Tips and Tricks A binder of awesome tips for creating great LiveBinders**
 * Using LiveBinder Bookmarklet**
 * LiveBinder in Art**

How Do I Integrate It?
LiveBinder is easy to use for both students and teachers.

Suggestions for integration:
 * digital portfolios for student projects
 * organize information and resources during the research process
 * use a LiveBinder to submit a completed project and include all notes, sources, and rough drafts
 * collaborate with other students to share information for group projects
 * a "social bookmarking" tool for sharing favorite web links (install the "bookmark tool" to add websites to a binder with one click)

Examples
** Wikispaces Binder ** A LiveBinder for Wikispaces in Education media type="custom" key="9669178"
 * AASL 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning 2010**
 * Create a TravelBinder **An alternative way to explore and present research about a country
 * The Day PowerPoint Died** Organize information for a presentation or professional development activity
 * Technology Integration Resources **A binder with extensive collection of well organized resources and ideas
 * Web 2.0 Projects - a Celebration of Student Learning **Publish examples of student projects
 * Web 2.0 Tools **Collection of tools shared in a LiveBinder

General Information

 * The free version has the following upload limitations:**
 * You can upload any file size up to 5 MB per file.
 * Total upload storage for free is 100 MB per account.

Assessment
Assessment of a LiveBinder project can easily be adapted from a rubric for a "paper" notebook. Example of "Paper Notebook" Rubric