Thing #22

After watching the video and reading some of the tips/tricks, I set up my Livebinder account.  The three binders I set up were: History, Geography and Favorite Documentaries.  The one I'm choosing to share is my History binder.  In it I have included: a link to: "music to teach history" (which was presented in class as a website of the day), a link to David Blight's wikipedia page (He is a writer and Civil War professor at Yale, APSU recently hosted him as a speaker, and at the bottom of his wiki page is a link to his free Open Yale Courses), and a link to National Archives Digital Vaults.  I also included three links in each of my other binders.  The National Archives Digital Vaults is a really amazing site that allows someone access to over 1200 historical documents, photographs, maps, etc.  Visitors can create their own exhibits and share them via email.  Each document is also linked to the National Archives research database.  The site also has special interactive resources for educators and students and lesson plans where teachers can use reproducible primary sources.  When I did a search for Livebinders in the classroom I was amazed at how many lesson plans are out there and stored in Livebinders.  There are a number of educators who have created really nice binders with highly organized tabs with tons of lesson plans.  I even found a binder with tabs dedicated to "Collaborative Mentoring for New Teachers."  Using Livebinders, teachers can not only organize lesson plan ideas and resources, but they can upload documents, combine them with external links and instructions and share it across many spaces where students can access and complete the activities.  You can also use them to collaborate with students.  For example, in creating an exhibit on the Civil War using the National Archives Digital Vault, each student could be responsible for finding one original document and saving it in a binder the teacher has set up.  The class could then combine all the tabs to make a complete exhibit of original Civil War documents.  Below is the link to my History Binder

http://www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=861860