Thing #22

Music

The LiveBinders lesson provides the student with a unique exposure to building a binder on that is virtual and stored on the website. For this lesson I created three binders titled education 3040, music, and history. I chose these titles because they interest me and are easy to recall. I am embedding my music binder into this blog post. There are two songs from my favorite band, Dave Matthews Band, "Ants Marching" and "Grey Street". I can see a good deal of use for these virtual binders because they enable a teacher to organize lessons by subject, then save information and data into each tab. These binders can be expanded by adding new tabs as information is gained and entered. Websites such as LiveBinders also give an educator a place to store large volumes of work on the virtual web; eliminating the need to build physical three-ring binders to store on shelves and closets in the classroom. This will be a real space saver in the long run. Students will also find this beneficial as they can build their class binders virtually, and then have them forever stored and retrievable via the web. In other words, students can create binders as soon as they begin school their first year. As subsequent years come, these students can build on these binders all the way through high school. This will eliminate the need to carry binders, books, etc. to and from school. The student of the future could move from class to class and grade to grade without carrying anything along. That is the school I envision for the future!