Generate 4 Journal Logs
We'll do these together in class if the deadline lands on an in-person day, or as remote work if the deadline lands on a remote day.
Part of this process is self-reflection
The best way to learn is to pause and take note of what is happening, how we are developing, how we are feeling, and how we might be roadblocked. Putting these feelings into words helps us to deal with them, and also makes them concrete in a way that we can look back upon at a later date.
Watch & follow along with the instructions on the video
We'll do these together in class if the deadline lands on an in-person day, or as remote work if the deadline lands on a remote day.
Productivity, Planning, Content and Reflection.
You can do these categories in any order, but you'll need to complete all four by the final journal log deadline.
This will be a final look pack, using these logs as signposts along our journey through the 3rd quarter.
What have you done?
• What have you done so far?
A. How much time have you spent?
B. When/where did you work on the I-Search?
C. What was best use of your time?
D. What was biggest waste of your time?
• Which online sources have you tried?
A. Which sites have proved most useful?
B. Which ones were hard to use?
C. Which ones didn’t help?
• What print sources have you found and used?
• Who have you been talking to about this?
• Has it been easy or hard to find material focused on your topic?
• Have you changed topics or shifted the way you think about your topic?
• What progress have you made on your interview up to now?
What do you need to do?
• What’s the next thing you have to do?
• How best to organize your time today?
• Plan out the week so that progress on the I-Search can fit into your school schedule and other obligations and activities.
• What’s most pressing?
• What resources do you still need to check out: library resources, computer resources, people resources?
• How are you going to get the interview done?
What do you know and what do you still need to find out?
• What do you know about your subject now that you didn’t know a week ago?
• What are the main ideas of your topic?
• What would an outline of your I-Search look like, as of today?
• What do you still need to know more about?
• What questions have you successfully answered so far?
• What new questions do you have now that you have learned more about your topic?
• What’s most confusing to you about your subject?
How has it been going?
• What has gone smoothly so far?
• What has been frustrating so far?
• What are your worries?
• How does your work so far reflect your strengths as a student researcher?
• How does you work so far reflect your weaknesses as a student researcher?
• What new skills are you learning in doing this I-Search?