LiveBinders

Live Binders An online tool used to organize pages in a binder format for presentation or personal retrieval. You can organize your web resources using tabs with labels you choose and save them to the server for later use and sharing with the world.

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Resources

[|Livebinders 4 Teachers] (wiki where educators share livebinders - organized by grade level or subject) [|Livebinders in Math & Science] [|Exploring the Web with Livebinders] (a PDF article) [|Livebinders Overview] [|Livebinders in Education]

SWOT

(a) Strengths


 * Easy to use
 * FREE (basic features)!
 * No personal data needed to sign up
 * Share binders with the web
 * View binders from users around the world
 * Easy access to other resources for personal use
 * Can have more than one binder saved under your user name
 * Binders are search-able by category

(b) Weaknesses


 * No control over who can view your binder (using the free service)
 * Beta website
 * If a lot is included in a binder, the user can easily get "lost"
 * Though organized by topic/subject, this has the opportunity to become a "random" collection of information, with no certain path

(c) Opportunities


 * Share ideas with the world
 * Use website ideas in your own binder others around the world have found useful
 * Provide the user with a great format to create a digital portfolio of work - to demonstrate talents and/or growth

(d) Threats


 * No protection of resources

(3) Ideas for the classroom
 * Students can use this site to gather information for projects in any subject. Since you can save your resources, its a good place for them to learn how organize information to be retrieved at a later time.
 * Teacher/Student portfolios