Librarians are effective in sharing their best practices with each other. Learning from each other is crucial, but not sharing their stories with other members of the school learning community keeps them wondering exactly what it is that librarians do. In this article, the author offers steps that can guide librarians to write for publications…

Storytellers know that stories are "formed" in their telling. Stories, whether oral or written, personal or mass communicated, ultimately express the boundaries of their medium (their "embodiment" through mediated forms). Religious Educators must always address the medium as well as the message in any theory of narrative accounting. Media often…

Notes that educators at all levels are involved in a paradigm shift--from the view that knowledge is an external entity existing independently of human thought and action to knowledge as mutually constructed by teacher and student. Describes the use of a double-entry journal that engages learners actively in constructing their own meanings. (RS)

Explains the application of action research to work-based learning, describing the action research cycle and meta learning. Outlines key processes for action research projects: keeping journals, managing dual roles of employee and researcher, managing politics and ethics. Offers suggestions for writing an action research dissertation. (SK)

This article explores the use of learning journals as a counseling strategy that can be used to complement a counselor's therapeutic orientation. The authors postulate that learning journals will have therapeutic effects on clients that will lead to enduring positive changes, discuss the development of appropriate learning taxonomies to evaluate…

The article reviews the lives of two highly gifted young writers, the Scottish Marjorie Fleming and the American Betty Ford. It gives samples of their early writing and follows their lives as far as is known. Conclusions are drawn concerning the needs and development of highly verbally gifted children. (DB)

A daily or weekly academic journal kept by the student can help parents who want to involve themselves more actively in their child's schoolwork. Sample journals are included in this article in addition to several homework hints. (IAH)

Lists and discusses briefly six "jumpstarters" for writers, intended to "rev them up and keep them going." (SR)

Participants (n=10, all female) were asked to generate either a metaphor for themselves as journal keepers, or for their journal-keeping process. The women chose metaphors suggesting that journal keeping was positive and regenerating; journals were also educational in that they could help the women see and speak more clearly about their lives. (CC)

Women often use journal writing to discover or regain their voice. They often face attitudinal, situational, and institutional barriers to journal writing that adult educators can help them overcome. (Contains 16 references.) (SK)

Introduces a 2-day laboratory experiment on scientific inquiry and the environment. Studies antlion classification and investigates anatomy, habitat, life cycle, behavior, and other properties of antlions. Adapted for different grade levels and includes a scientific journal report. (YDS)

Makes the case for articles in this journal to have more references to enhance its status as a professional publication. Makes recommendations for authors as to how this may be achieved. (MM)

Technology is allowing anyone with a computer, the ability to type, and an Internet connection to become a published author--of sorts. Web logs, or "blogs," are the latest way that students, businesses, and many others are publishing their musings. The term was coined in 1999, and today Webster's dictionary defines a blog as a "diary; a personal…

A growing number of K-12 educators are using Web logs, or "blogs" for short, to foster better writing, reading, communication, and other academic skills. Such Web sites, often open to the public, double as chronological journals and can include Web links and photographs as well as audio and video elements. Opinions on the use of blogs are shared…

A blog is a Web page made up of a series of chronologically arranged postings. Blogs may take the form of a diary or journal, mini-essay, photo-essay, project updates, even fiction or non-fiction works. They are also excellent communication tools for families, classes, departments, or teams. This article describes several types of blogs, and…