The first binder I created is titled "middle school teaching" which is filled with articles about being a middle school teacher and blogs written by middle school teachers. My "English" binder has three tabs titled grammar, spelling and poetry which each link to fun interactive sites. My last binder is titled"future classroom decor ideas" which is depicted below...
The use of live binders is obviously contingent on the whether or not the class I am placed in has regular access to computers both at school and at home. Hypothetically, if my students had regular access to computers it would be a big time saver for them to be able to research material at school, save it to their live binder and then have access to it at home. And because live binders allows you to have MANY tabs and sub tabs, my middle school students would really only need to create one binder and use it for all their classes. And say I had a class that had access to computers every day and students took their notes digitally rather than by hand, they could add their notes to their live binder and never have to worry about losing them! I think live binders could also be a great way for students to keep organized warmup writing activities and/or a journal/reflections.
I, however can definitely see myself using live binders to keep track of my lesson plans since as a secondary English teacher I will have multiple classes with multiple lesson plans.
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