Process Journal | Journaling Your Journey

As you journey through Ideation Phase (and the remainder of your project), be sure to continue recording your ideas in your process journal. The process journal is a generative text that documents your evolving thinking about a project. It is the place where innovators record brainstorming, successes, missteps, changes in ideas, thoughts on end product. While it is important that reflection takes place in the written language, it also happens through images.

This journal can take many forms based on your topic, your creation, your discipline. In general, the process journal is:

• A place to plan and brainstorm - mind maps, open + closed questions, written pitches
• A place to record interactions with sources - research, annotations, notes from educators + peers, thinking routines
• A place to explore creation - storyboards, sketches, poetry, quotes, choreography
• A place to document academic discipline - proposal outline, science reports, engineering logs, historical research, writing process
• A place to reflect on goals, learning