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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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