Journal Writing...or Blogging!

Giving students an opportunity to write their own thoughts, private to themselves or public to the whole world, can only increase brain activity and help the students. Much like we are currently doing my Secondary Education - Teaching Writing in Junior/Senior High School, any writing activity is beneficial to a student. There are many opportunities for a student to write, and many resources for a place to write. A student could simply keep a journal or diary, they may write stories, they can start a blog, they can keep a composition notebook. The possibilites are seemingly endless. There are also many free sites online (like blogspot!) that can be private OR public, depending on the writer's choice. There is a really great resource online for instructional strategies for journal writing. One particularly great one is: http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/pd/instr/strats/journal/index.html