Students have lots of interests. They also have lots of places they find things that interest them; videos from YouTube, games on gamer sites, simulations that teach, audio(books) that inform, and blogs/social networks that connect.
Students also have a difficult time organizing everything they need. Ever looked in their locker? How about their book-bags? Not the model of organization. Students often loose homework and other assignments on the way to school, even though they spent a considerable amount of time completing it.
LiveBinders is a way to keep students' digital information in one organized location. Since LiveBinders is like a 3 ring binder for the Internet, students can collect all of the videos, links, documents, and more in one spot. Since the Internet is really hard to lose on the way to school, students are more likely to turn in their work.
Student can easily use LiveBinders to:
-Save documents at home to turn in once they arrive at school
-Copy and paste a link to a helpful tutorial to show classmates working on a group project
-Collect several website resources that help explain a difficult topic in Math to show other group members
-Share the teacher's embedded LiveBinders from the class website with parents so they can help with homework
LiveBinders is one answer to the overstuffed and far too heavy backpack syndrome that plagues so many middle school, and above, students.
