Journal Writing for Students and Teachers
The student experience is a goldmine for developing and improving resilience. The power of journaling can spark creativity and awaken curiosity. Neelix unlocks these values through a measurable feedback loop approach.
Easily integrate meta-communications and cognitive skills into the learning process.
Increase student resilience
through real-time feedback and psychological safety
Building staff capacity to promote and protect mental health
Learning Positive Communication and Introspection
Students need to learn and practice communication skills in a
psychologically safe way. Given that workplaces and career opportunities are now geo-distributed, success after school is dependent on these skills and derivative traits. Social media platforms are unsuitable for such learning because it is not safe and encourages laziest (and often worse) in humanity.
Buddy System
- Boost wellbeing of students
- Ensure no student is left behind
- This strategy promotes student-student interaction and helps break the social isolation of distance learning
"Students who blog as part of a course requirement demonstrate increased reflection, heightened feelings of connection, and increased course-related knowledge".
Paisley Worthington, Jennifer Reniers, Dale Lackeyram, and John Dawson University of Guelph, 2018
Building Supportive Culture
Quick signalling and blogging within the safety of a classroom or school journal is the perfect way for students to
practice reflective communications
Teachers, counsellors, and parents can also participate in the journal to relate their own experiences, as well as mentor students in openness and communication styles.
"Self-awareness isn’t one truth. It’s a delicate balance of two distinct, even competing, viewpoints."
- Tasha Eurich, Haley M. Wozny, Phoenix Van Wagoner, Eric D. Heggestad, Apryl Brodersen (What Self-Awareness Really Is , and How to Cultivate It)
Overview
Safe and Easy to Use Impact Weights
Measurable points system in Neelix does not require any learning. The weights are relative.
Privacy options enable the user to post anonymous feedback.
Themes and Feedback Categories
Neelix is adaptable to your context. Create your own set of experience categories, hierarchy of activities, and teams. Each post can be tagged appropriately.
Seamless Causality Links
Students, tutors, and teachers can tag multiple themes when posting feedback.
Tagging of People
People can be tagged on feedback items as a way of saying "thank you" or recognising a challenge that someone had to contend with. This feeds into the gamified Experiences Board.
Class, Faculty Multi-Activity, External Partners
Neelix is built on the concept of a Consortium. As such, you can use a Team Journal to collaborate across teams or with external partners.
Access Controls
Role based permissions allow differentiating access between maintenance, advanced, doers, observer, and infographics only permissions.
Inject humour
The most important conversations are not always the easy ones. Use humour to release some steam, apply an avatar character, or add GIF memes (Neelix provides GIPHY integration) to enrich your feedback.
Markdown Editing
Markdown editing is supported on commentary. Feedback can be rich text, with links and image inserts.
Infographics of the journey over time
17 rich infographics allow inspection of experiences across any time period, by themes, teams, and activities.
Integrations
Posts can be created directly from Slack or Microsoft Teams via app integrations.