Using apps such as Brainsparker are great tools to provide students the necessary prompting that one might have trouble finding when doing journal entries in English classrooms. Since I want to teach high school English, and one of my top goals is to have students write daily journals for class participation, it would be awesome to use this app as it would take work off my load in needing to make up prompts, and it also allows the student to take action and choose what they want to write about. They are taking credit for their own work and using prompts that interest them, which will help their creativity in the long run. Like I said in my video, however, I wish that the card packs included specific subjects areas, that way you could focus the inspiration on a relevant subject rather than a multitude of different options. The app is focused more for writers than educators but I think that using it as a free resource would be beneficial in the long run.
