LiveBinders. Virtual workbooks in the clouds.

Last updated on 18 January 2013

LiveBinders is an online CTBT tool that will allow you toOrganize and classify all your digital resources in virtual workbooks. Classify but also share your findings with your colleagues or with your students.

LiveBinders is of which ua sort of curation tool, a virtual workbook in which you will drag digital docs regardless of their format : web pages, PDF, text document, images, or videos. Everything is classified inside with a system of tabs (virtual dividers). You can even create sub-interlayers in the same tab for clarity.

Using LiveBinders is easy. All you need is an email address to create a free account. From your personal dashboard, you'll have access to all the workbooks you've created. To create a new one, you must give it a title and choose from the few options proposed:

You can give tags to your workbook and classify it in an explicit category so that it is easily found and above all you will decide either make your binder public and searchable by everyone, or keep it private Only visible to you and the people you want to invite. You can also protect it with a password.

Then all you have to do is fill in your binder. The tab system is simple to understand.

You click on a tab and insert your first resource, mostly a link. One click of validation and your resource is integrated.
Each tab offers a menu that allows you to move the tabs, delete them, add a submenu.

To facilitate the curation of your resources, LiveBinders also offers a dropplet for your browser. This allows you to add a resource to one of your workbooks on the fly when you navigate with a single click.

When you're done, you can share your workbook with the world. You can share via email or social networks. You can also use a code provided to insert it on a website or blog.

In the classroom.

LiveBinders is a simple tool to efficiently classify your digital resources and discoveries. You will have on hand in a storage system comparable to those we use for paper the elements to prepare a course or a conference. The tool is also great for sharing resources on a given topic with colleagues or a class. Once your workbook is created, any additional resources you add to it will automatically update the workbook in real time. Finally, many users share their workbooks with the community. Even though most are in English, they can be an interesting documentary base as part of your watchkeeping and curation work.

Link: LiveBinders.