LEUCHTTURM1917Cleer Learning Journal - The Ideal Guided Journal, Workbook, and Notebook for Actively Acquiring New Professional and Personal Skills and Knowledge, Pacific Green

It's a pleasure to write on Leuchtturm1917 paper. Beyond that, this journal is divided into 12 weeks and encourages active learning. The prompts have you get organized ("What resources will you use?" etc.) and practice what you've learned.

I took some time to analyze the content, but let's start with the journal itself. Leuchtturm makes great journals, and this is not exception to that rule. In a rather large format the quality of the paper, binding and print is evident. I would definitely buy a Leuchtturm journal again based on this representative of the line.However, the reason that someone would buy this particular journal is for the added content that is meant to help you get the most out of learning something in 12 weeks. The Cleer learning process outline, available on their website, is Plan, Explore, Experiment, Reflect and Summarize. Planning parts of the journal are all the same for each of the 12 weeks. There is a chart with learning topics/content, learning sources and date/day that you plan to engage with the topic/content and sources. Space at bottom for people to talk to/learn from. The explore parts vary someone what in their last pages. The initial pages are there for notes, but the last pages ask you to do various things. Most commonly is to write down what you recall from the week's learning and then check to see what you left out. Yet, there are other things asked of you. Experiment has a good deal of variation in activities, which all boil down to applying the learning in various ways and contexts. Building on this the reflect areas also have a lot of variation but all involve trying to get the user to look at your learning and consider what you know and do not yet know. Finally, summarize parts occur every 4 weeks and consider the last 4 weeks of learning that you have accumulated.For some topics this journal would be great and yet for other topics this journal would not be the best approach. The journal heavily encourages people to use color, pictures, drawing and similar things to do the various parts of each phase (Plan, Explore, Experiment, Reflect and Summarize). People that are less inclined to artistry might find this way of making meaning from content they are learning to be an impediment. For those inclined, this will be fantastic way to consider learning of their topic. This is the main problem/benefit of the journal. It is clearly focused on one approach to making meaning from one's learning. Due to this, it was not as effective for me as other ways to do the same thing and get the same result.