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Digital Journaling

What are the Benefits of Digital Journaling?

  1. Security: many digital journaling apps have safety procedures in place to protect your personal information. Your personal information can be protected with a password or encryption, providing you peace of mind while journaling. 

  2. Easy to organize: digital organizing provides many options to add extra tags, labels, and folders so you can easily navigate through your journal entries. Using digital journaling gives you that extra freedom to really customize to your personal journaling needs.

  3. Cost-effective: if you already have a laptop, iPad, or tablet you don't need to buy yourself a journal every time you run out. There are many free apps or cost-effective apps that are cheaper than buying a physical journal. 

  4. Eco-friendly: digital journaling reduces paper waste and is more sustainable than traditional paper-based journaling practices. 

  5. Creative Outlet: digital journaling can be a creative outlet for expressing emotions and ideas. You can make your journal fun and engaging in a way that keeps you creatively stimulated.

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Why Should You Incorporate Digital Journaling in The Classroom?
 

Builds Creativity: having students write about themselves and things they are passionate about inspires them and can impact there creativity.

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Writing Skills: students get to practice writing/typing in a non stressful situation. Students journals should not be assessed or graded so students can make mistakes without fear and learn from them. Writing in a student journal can also build confidence as students learn there writing strengths. 

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Help Teachers Understand Students: Teachers can look at student journals to understand who they are as a person and to help make personal connections. Having students write in a journal can be very useful as you can use there journal as a tracker to look at there improvements in there writings. 

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Developing Sense of Self: writing in a journal can help students understand themselves better. Students can learn what they like and dislike and identify patterns within their life. 

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Digital Journaling Apps to Consider:

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GoodNotes 

GoodNotes is a note-taking app that allows for maximum creativity as it allows you to do different things other than note-taking. Within the app, you can edit and annotate PDFs, create digital scrapbooks, and have full flexibility to write and create without constraint. can be used on any IOS, Android, and Windows platform. 

 

Cost: $7.99

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ClickUp

ClickUp is a productivity platform designed to manage everything in your life - tasks, goals, ideas, notes, and even your entire workflow, all on one screen. The app can easily manage or refer back to old journal entries and has settings in place to protect your privacy. 

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Cost: Free (Upgrades start at $5 a month)

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The Five Minute Journal App

The Five Minute Journal App is an app based on a best-selling physical journal. It is great for people who are just starting to journal as it covers key aspects or for people who are trying to build a regular habit of journaling daily. 

 

 In the morning you receive specific prompts on your electronic devices such as:

-I am grateful for…

-What will I do to make today great?

Then in the evening, you may get questions like:

-3 amazing things that happened today…

-How could I have made today better?

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Cost: $4.99

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Finch: Self Care Pet

Finch: Self Care Pet is an app that helps you feel prepared and positive. By taking care of your self-care pet you are also taking care of yourself. In the app, you create a companion who grows with you as you complete mindful goals and exercises. This is a great app to use as a quick check-in and has many beneficial mindful exercises like goal tracking, bullet journaling, breathing, mood tracker, and more! The app is very easy to use (4 and up). 

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Cost: Free to download but has costs within app

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Me: A Kid's Diary

Me: A Kid’s Diary by Tinybop is a storytelling app that encourages kids to write, speak, take photos, and draw about themselves and their lives. The kids can create their own avatars within the app and can answer hundreds of different questions and complete statements. The app is easy to use (4 and up) and has high educational value. Unfortunately, this app is only compatible with IOS.

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Cost: $4.99

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Simple Diary - Journaling

Simple Diary - Journaling App is an easy-to-use app with high functionality. In the app, you can create journal entries that are secure and protected. You can add photos to your entries along with customizing the theme color. There is also a search bar where you can access old entries with ease.

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Cost: Free

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