Thing #22

This activity was very interesting and useful to me as an art teacher.  My presentations require a lot of photographs of various artists’ works and methods used to reproduce their techniques.  LiveBinders provides a method to store all my online resources for each artist, examples of their work, demographic information, and other facts about the period and style he used.  This app is easy to use and allows extensive data to be stored in each folder.  Tabs allow subject matter to be subdivided into meaningful categories and accessed during lectures.  LiveBinders is similar to Diigo and can be shared with fellow instructors with interests in similar subject matter.  In fact it is so user friendly, that students can setup files and collect data for upcoming reports.  Our school system does not block access to this site, so it has been deemed appropriate for student use.  I could for see teachers placing introductory information in the first folder and assignments sequentially under accompanying tabs.  In this manner, students could access the designated LiveBinder, review collected website information, print off worksheets, and finish assignments independently.  This is a means of providing online access to information, but still controlling the content.