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- Easier - You don't
have to be a great writer, perfect speller, or
creative thinker to keep a personal journal. Journal
writing means that you regularly write down your
thoughts and experiences.
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- Harder - A journal is
a continued series of writings made by a person in
response to their life experiences and events. Diaries
contain a description of daily events. A journal may
include those descriptions, but it also contains
reflections on what took place and expresses emotions
and understandings about them. It doesn't matter what
you call your writing, either a diary or journal, as
long as you see the distinction between these two ways
of writing.
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- Conversations
Within: Journal Writing and Inner Dialog by G.
Starnes
- http://www.journal-writing.com/
- Here is an on-line workshop on journal
writing.
- Similar Website:
- 2) Writing the Journal by C. Kingston http://www.writingthejourney.com/
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- Descriptive
Writing with V. Hamilton
- http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/diary/
- Capturing an event through descriptive writing
involves paying close attention to the details by
using all of your five senses. In this workshop, the
noted author shares some writing tips and guidelines
that will help you use your powers of observation to
write and publish your very own descriptive
writing.
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- Echoing
Whispers: Journal Writing Resources
- http://journal-writing.webdjinni.net/
- This site concerns both private and on-line
journal writing. It is dedicated to improving and
understanding oneself through the use of free writing,
creativity, and self-analysis.
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- Secret
Diary
- http://www.spies.com/~diane/journals.html
- This website contents include journaling habits,
tips, journal books and web resources, and published
journals.
- Related Websites:
- 2) Diarist.Net http://diarist.net/
- 3) Journaling Your Life by H. Arce http://h.arce.tripod.com/journalingyourlife/
- 4) Memoir Writers http://www.memoirwriters.com/
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- Explore journal writing with one or
more of these activities:
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- Begin a Journal. Visit websites
like (1) Secret Diary
(http://www.spies.com/~diane/journals.html),
(2) How Do I Start Keeping a
Journal? (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/journal_writing/53081),
and (3) Journal Writing - The
Beginning (http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3768/100686),
both by C. Martzinek from Suite 101
to gather ideas. Then begin keeping your
own journal. Follow the tips and
guidelines, but make it your own personal
journal. Remember there are no absolute
rules.
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- Decorate a Journal Cover. First
start with selecting your journal; it
could be a spiral-bound notebook, a blank
book available at book and stationary
stores, or you could make your own journal
using plain white filler pages bound
together (fasteners, yarn, staples) with
construction paper covers. Then decorate
your cover by drawing pictures, using a
graphics software program on the computer,
or cutting and pasting pictures from old
magazines to make your own unique journal
cover.
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- Create a Nature Journal. You
can get some ideas and startup information
from the following sites:
- 1) Back to Nature by K.
Dahl from FamilyFun http://familyfun.go.com/raisingkids/learn/activities/feature/famf78nature/famf78nature.html
- 2) Create a Nature
Journal http://www.kidsplanet.org/defendit/new/journal.html
from Kids' Planet Defenders of
Wildlife
- 3) Create Your Own Nature
Journal from National Wildlife
Federation's Ranger Rick's Go Wild
http://www.nwf.org/kidzone/kzPage.cfm?siteId=3&departmentId=152
- 4) Field Journal
Activity http://www.enviro-explorers.com/journalactivity.html
from Iowa Department of
Transportation
- 5) Keeping a Nature
Journal http://www.sierraclub.org/education/nature_journal.asp
by B.J. Gisel from the Sierra
Club
- 6) Keeping a Nature
Journal by K.M. Porterfield
- http://www.kporterfield.com/journal/Journal_Nature.html
- 7) Nature Journal as a Tool for
Learning by K. Matsumoto http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/environmental/matsumoto.htm
- 8) Nature Journaling
http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/outdoors/357
- 9) Winter Nature Journal
http://www.care2.com/channels/solutions/outdoors/358
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- Start a Journal Jar. Look at
the writing prompts provided at (1)
Journal Jar Ideas (http://www.omnicron.com/~fluzby/sister-share/journal.htm),
(2) Writing Prompts/Journal
Topics (http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html),
(3) Creative Writing Prompts
(http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/),
and (4) Journal Writing
Ideas (http://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1492.html).
Then put together your own Journal Jar and
chock-it full of startup ideas. Use it in
your own journal writing activity.
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- Few More Sites
- 1000
Journals
- http://www.1000journals.com/
- One thousand blank journals are traveling from
hand to hand throughout the world. Those who find them
are to add stories and drawings and pass them
along.
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- Best
Resources for Writers
- http://www.gotexan.com/pdme/index.htm
- Other Similar Sites:
- 2) Indispensable Writing Resources http://stetson.edu/~rhansen/writweb.html
- 3) Resources for Writers from R. Bush http://home.earthlink.net/~rodbush/Writers.htm
- 4) Writing from eduScapes 42eXplore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/writing.htm
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- Creative
Journal
- http://www.creative-journal.com/
- Here you will find articles, techniques, a visual
gallery and more designed to spark the creative flow
for you when writing.
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- Journal
for You
- http://www.journalforyou.com/index-2.html
- This website from a journal enthusiast focuses on
writing for personal growth and creative
enhancement.
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- Journaling
from S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts
- http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/sjournal.htm
- This website describes several different types of
journals.
- Related Website:
- How to Keep a Writing Journal
- 2) http://www.gmu.edu/departments/english/composition/students/journaling.html
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- Journaling
Page
- http://www.powr.net/skyward/journaling.htm
- This site provides some basic startup information
for beginners.
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- Journal
Writing and Adult Learning by S. Kerka from
ERIC Digest
- http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed399413.html
- This article focuses on several types of journals,
exploring their value in assisting adults through
their learning journey and summarizing advice from the
literature on effective ways to use journals.
- Another ERIC Article on Journaling:
- 2) Effective Use of Student Journal Writing by
G.R. Cobine http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed378587.html
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- Journal
Writing - Why and How? from Right Mind
Logic
- http://www.rightmindlogic.com/why_and_how.htm
- This webpage has a few helpful hints for
journaling.
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- Personal
Journaling
- http://www.writersdigest.com/journaling/
- This online site for the journaling magazine has
an archive of previous articles.
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- Websites For Teachers
- Journal
Ideas for the Classroom by J.K. Blaylock from
Suite 101
- http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/3768/100934
- Do you have a time where your students spend time
writing in a journal? Are you interested in developing
a special time for students to develop journals? If
your answer is yes, then this information is for
you.
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- Journaling
Strand Overview from Tools for
Understanding, University of Puget
Sound
- http://www.ups.edu/community/tofu/lev1f/jourframe.htm
- Why use writing to teach math? Because by making
the thinking process concrete (i.e., having students
articulate their thinking in journals), writing gives
students and teachers valuable information about how
students are learning math.
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- Journal
Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really
Works! from Education World
- http://www.education-world.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml
- Some teachers check journal writing and work on
polishing skills; others use journals as the one
"uncorrected" form of writing that students produce.
Some teachers provide prompts to help students begin
their writing. Others leave decisions about the
direction and flow of student journals up to the
students. This curriculum article provides lots of
ideas for your classroom.
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- Created by
Annette
Lamb and
Larry
Johnson, 7/99.
Updated 9/03.
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