LIVEBINDERS
Homepage: http://www.livebinders.com
Tool Category/ies: Communication Productivity
License Type: Free
Overall Rating
5/5
LiveBinders is a Web2.0 tool that helps you organize online web pages into an electronic binder. The tool lets you look at multiple web sites, Word documents, and PDFS within the same 'binder' window, organized by tabs, however you have put them together. A user can also add a few comments about each tab , allowing the reader some insight into the creator's organization.
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Reviewed by: Alyssa Riley on 04/10/2013
Description
Remember punching holes in papers and organizing everything with dividers and tabs into 3-ring binders? LiveBinders is a Web2.0 tool that helps you organize online web pages into an electronic binder. The tool lets you look at multiple web sites, Word documents, and PDFS within the same 'binder' window, organized by tabs, however you have put them together. A user can also add a few comments about each tab , allowing the reader some insight into the creator's organization. The tool also provides a bookmarking tool one can install on their web browser so that pages can be bookmarked and added to LiveBinders during routine web searches. After creating a binder, a link directly to the site can be shared with others.
Things to know before using Livebinders
You should be comfortable navigating the web to use this tool, and have a project in mind that utilizes websites and/or documents (Word/PDF) to be uploaded. Using LiveBinders is great if you have multiple websites and documents that you would like to keep organized for yourself or to share with others.
How to use Livebinders in a teaching environment
The website for LiveBinder definitely promotes the educational value of this tool. They have "Featured Binders," many of which are categorized under Education. There are other categories of the binders, including travel, crafts, business, etc. All the public binders can be searched, and LiveBinder features a "Top 10 of 2012" binder section - pretty cool! Here is a link to view some of those really great project binders: http://www.livebinders.com/shelf/featured
Similar to the binder I've already started, I could definitely see using this tool to create resources for residents and fellow in graduate medical education programs. To help create a library of resources, teams of residents could work together to create sub-specialty binders to use as resources for their program. It would be a great tool for a sub-specialty rotation to use to create links of directions, resources, reading materials, self-assessment quizzes, and feedback tools to help direct trainees working on their rotation for the month. I think this has more ready to implement possibilities than any tool I've reviewed so far.
Advantages of using Livebinders
LiveBinders is great because it is simple and straightforward to use. Currently, the entire tool is free, and each user has up to 100MB on storage space. The capability to upload your own files definitely adds to its utility. A user can add collaborators to their binder, so multiple people can work on the same project. I'm trying to think of some disadvantages of the tool...I think I need to work with adding more different types of files to see if they all upload properly.
Disadvantages of using Livebinders
The limitation of 100MB could be a disadvantage if you really get productive with this tool, and currently a professional or advanced option doesn't seem to be even available for a fee. If you are trying to organize your URLs or would like to present a batch of URLs to a group, definitely try this out
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