weekly11-22-10

Weekly Activities - Nov 22, 2010 - LiveBinders
LiveBinders.com is a great tool to organize and share bookmarks. It is one of the AASL "Top 25 Best Websites for Teaching and Learning". It is another social bookmarking tool that is built around a familiar organizational concept of the 3-ring binder. It also provides the ability to collaborate, share via social websites, and embed the binders in blogs and wikis. You can install an add-on in browsers to easily add websites on the fly. It is not recommended to have students make their own LiveBinder accounts, but you can use it to create functional, visual binders that work well in electronic pathfinders and online centers. LiveBinders.com also has a wealth of educational binders created by others that you can use evaluate to use with your students.


 * Sample Binder**

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 * Watch this video for more information:**

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__Activity #1__: Create your own LiveBinder. 1. Create an account at LiveBinder.com. Take a look at some featured binders and develop a concept for your own binder which will support a topic of use in your library program. 2. Click on "Create a binder" > "Start a blank binder". Name your binder, add a description and tags, make the binder public, and for now, do not select Google Search to fill the binder. 3. When your binder is created, begin to add websites to the binder. Organize them into tabs and sub-tabs. Include at least __ten__ websites. 4. Embed the binder into your new library wiki.

__Activity #2__: Do a journal entry with your reflections on using LiveBinder. Include any "finds" from your Google Reader this week.

__Activity #3__: In advance of our next meeting, create a free VoiceThread VT Educator account at http://voicethread.com/products/k12/educator. Click the gray Apply! button. Bring the user name and password to our meeting. See the meeting agenda here. Bring 8 - 10 digital photos of your library and a microphone, if possible.