Go to www. livebinders. com Click on Sign Up Go to www.livebinders.com Click on Sign Up. Allow participants to create and account. Recommend using iss username and password! (Have them watch until you get to the create binder screen.) www.livebinders.com

Like a 3 ring binder for the web Organize and present resources quickly and simply, use LiveBinders for Smartboard presentations or as an alternative to PowerPoint. View links like pages in a book instead of URLs on a page Combine uploaded PDFs and Word docs with links in one binder (need IE 8 or higher to upload Office docs, otherwise it creates a link) Go paperless and you can edit your links from anywhere! And best of all – it’s FREE!

5 tabs – About Binders is the Homepage

Featured Binders tab- allows you to sort (most viewed, Most recent) or search by category public binders

My Shelves tab – Sort and view binders… My Shelves tab – Sort and view binders….created by you or other people We’ll skip the Create Binder tab right now. We’ll look at it last.

For use at home – Livebinder It Tool Every time you find a link you want to save, instead of clicking on 'favorites' you can click on 'LiveBinder It' and save directly to an existing or new binder. (may conflict with NCWise so can’t install at school)

Here’s the My Shelves tab and dashboard – It’s your “homepage” when you sign in. The livebinder provided for you is a “how to guide” for learning the basics. Livebinders has an excellent Help section with FAQ’s, how to’s and tutorials. (Click mouse) Help is located at the top right portion of your screen beside the Login link.

You must be Signed In to use the Create Binder tab – to create binders You must be Signed In to use the Create Binder tab – to create binders. You just make your selections. We can do this together.

Complete text boxes. Type in a Title and brief description Complete text boxes. Type in a Title and brief description. Type in tags (key terms) separated by commas – used for searching. Select a category such as Education from the drop down menu. Select Public or Private. (can change at a later time) Access key (optional) You give to people when sharing a Private binder. You might want to use the school name or initials. Use Google to search – Yes – will fill in your tabs using Google and the your tags No – you create all the links for your binder Click Create New Binder and the magic begins!

In this example, Kathy Schrock’s website is the first tab In this example, Kathy Schrock’s website is the first tab. If you click on down arrow, you see the menu options for this tab. Add, Delete, Move left or right, Add new Subtab, open advanced tab menu.

When finished, click Save. Then click Back to My Shelves.

There are several ways to share a binder located under the Options menu

To the right Share This Binder appears - Click on Email this Binder and complete the boxes. Remember, if it’s a private binder you will need to include an Access Key.

Advanced users may want to embed on your Centricity 2 webpage Advanced users may want to embed on your Centricity 2 webpage. You will click on the embed link and follow the directions.

Under the Options menu select Collaborate

Collaborators must have a Livebinders account Collaborators must have a Livebinders account. Enter email addresses and use a comma to separate if there are multiple collaborators. Click Add. You may also use this to Remove Collaborators.

Enjoy your LiveBinders!