#final reflection

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Final Reflection

Hey everyone, this will be my final update for this blog. Thank you for joining me in my journey of creating a game for my research topic. Here's to the future :] 🎮💻

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Final Reflection

One of the most challenging aspects of adulthood is navigating the unknown. Throughout life, one will construct meaning to their life through lived and experiences. As life progresses, novel happens can become routine events that can be navigated based on prior experiences. As drivers gain greater confidence behind the wheel with more experience on the road, repeating life events can provide some level of certainty or ease of access with time. However – like driving – prior experiences may not equip one with the skills or knowledge to navigate a novel event.

This semester brought many unexpected happenings that derailed what was intended to be a spring semester for making significant headway in moving the dissertation work forward. Personal and familiar events can quickly reshape all of the planning to engage in deep academic pursuits. Doctoral programs can have safeguards in place to ensure that students are continuously moving along in their academic journey with mentors, a major professor, and caring faculty who are committed to student success. However, even ambitious students can quickly become overwhelmed my unplanned events in and out of the academic setting. Students can also sideline their own success through a lack of communication with their mentors and professors when navigating such events. Anecdotally, doctoral students must have the commitment and drive to complete their academic pursuits until their dissertation is approved. Students with discipline to complete their program will return to their course of study and make meaning of prior novel events to plan and prepare preventative measures for navigating future novel events, and employ strategies when facing future obstacles.

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Students who intend to employ qualitative approaches in their research have an exhaustive list of considerations for the design, implementation, and analysis of qualitative research methods. When designing a research plan, researchers that have spent time becoming familiar with the area of interest (e.g., founding papers and theories, major contributions, current trends, etc.) can consider prior researcher and their potential contributions when considering a research method that will best support their area of investigation. A researcher seeking to gain insight on the attitudes and perceptions of technology users for a given domain with limited prior research may benefit from initially performing a quantitative study that can be replicated to expand the area of knowledge on the topic. On the contrary, a researcher seeking to explore how a generation or culture defines a social phenomenon as ‘culture moment’ or ‘icon’ (e.g., a major social event or influential individual) may develop credibility through in-depth interviews and follow-up interview with research participants. In both scenarios, the researcher must assess the state of their area of interest and their desired contributions to the area when considering a methodology. Additionally, other factors like make up of the research team and theoretical framework are also things a researcher must consider when developing their research action plan.

When implementing a methodology with qualitative elements, researchers must carefully design a methodology that is appropriate to the context of their study and provides an avenue where the research participants are comfortable and uninfluenced to provide meaningful responses for the researcher to building qualitative findings. Researchers have factors like the modality (e.g., virtual, in-person, phone, on-/off-site, etc.), setting (e.g., one-on-one interviews, focus groups, etc.), and recording (e.g., pen and paper, voice recorder, digital notes, etc.) are all items that can shape the outcome and reach of a study. When selecting any of the factors, researchers should consider the how any of the aforementioned can restrict or expand the responses of participants (e.g., generational differences, location demographics, time of day for participants to engage in the research activity, etc.). Additionally, researchers should prepare for qualitative activities by diligently working with the research team and other researchers who can provide alternative perspectives, highlight potential pitfalls, and provide other items to consider prior to interacting with research participants. Each research activity, including replication studies, must be thoughtfully planned and executed align with the research objective and also having the best interests of the research participants in mind.

After a researcher or research team conducts a research study using qualitative methods, a credible analysis can be achieved through iterative and recursive processes throughout the analysis phase. Ensuring the accuracy of the participant responses, researchers can rely on several techniques such as independent and group review and re-review, member checks with research participants to confirm or clarify statements or responses, and self-reflection and reviewing self-reflection entries written throughout the research process, to generate a meaningful and accurate representation of the research corpus (e.g., the oral, written, or documented responses from research participants). Researchers also concurrently revisit the theoretical and conceptual framework that influenced the design of the study to ensure that the interpretation aligns with the intended focus, even if the finding on provide insight on the topic area and recommendations for future studies. Similar to human existence, research on a given area is ongoing and has the potential to be redefined by human existence. Through this perspective, researchers can be position themselves with endless opportunities to inquire and contribute to an area of study.  

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Final Reflection Video

What were your thoughts about your research topic going into the first week of the semester?

I expected to follow the plan set during pre-capstone: make a music video.

What are your thoughts now about your research topic and your project/practicum?

It feels full circle to me because I had thought about doing a website before deciding on a music video. It's also SO COOL because I've never made a website before and now I've not only made one but actually published it. I'm really glad I was able to gain experience making a website--had fun with the graphs--and incorporate the branding made and survey data collected prior.

What did you learn about yourself as a creative through this journey?

Gained more experience with project management and adapting to media change.

What did you learn about the creative and production process?

Mock-ups are essential to production. Take the time to agonize over them during pre-production and then start creating. Once you inevitability hit a roadblock, you'll see just how useful they are.

What advice would you give new senior capstone students?

Have a plan, but be open to change and be able to adapt to it. Trust yourself and the process. The most essential part of capstone is to just keep moving and making progress, bit by bit.

Where to now?

Graduation! 🎓

[azolitmin]

🥀

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[tazmiilly]

[curioscurio]

I'm rewatching Steven Universe and I will never forgive Fandom for what it did to her

[triona-tribblescore]

So, whats with the suit?

[kittykatninja321]

My less popular opinion (and what I believe to be implied by the art in Lost Days) is that rather than waking up in a fully grown body Jason didn’t actually complete his puberty until after his Lazarus pit dip while he was on his murder tour. Imagine you’re tied up in a basement in Berlin getting interrogated by a teenager and his voice is cracking the entire time and if you laugh he’s going to shoot you

[chocokeyboard]

Oh im just going to make a quick sketch and post it like that oh oh wait hold on is good. Is okay i will simply color it a bit slips OWWWW OWWW there goes full shading. Woopsies

[astearisms]

fionna and cake drawings before and after watching the episodes so far. it’s nostalgic and somehow cathartic and poignant and relatable and—it just started

[gunsatthaphan]

jail was never this much fun 😏⛓️🤙🏻

[leftarmofl1fe]

color being tragic

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I loveeee drawing him crash out in the void.

I think he’d have a lot of resentment towards Gaster at first, because I’m assuming he’d have regained his memories of him as soon as he stepped foot into the void,, and the only things he remembers is him really just not being there as a father, and now he’s being forced to stay with the guy that abandoned him in his eyes 😭

then again the new souls kinda force him to forgive Gaster because of the kindness/integrity he has… as much as he wants to dislike Gaster for what he was, he can’t because it’s hard to hold grudges when he’s always filled with kindness.

anyway I need to sleep idek if anything I’m saying makes sense

Othertale belongs to superyoumna

[jkvjimin]

JIKOOK ㅡ are you sure?!

@kpopcreators event 07: duos

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tetro pink doodle dump: varied ramen trio edition 🍜🩷 i need to get all of these off my hands lol

picture captions, if you care:

sanrio dogs i drew in my sketchbook once during class ! they are such a doodleable bunch

IIIIIII👏SUP👏POSE👏HEY🆙

this was based on one of tsunos gacha cards, i just wanted to sketch it but then i got carried away..... rip to the matching cheshire sasaki that didnt get drawn (I PROMISE IM STILL WORKING ON THE GACHA CARDS THAT WON THE POLL I DID THAT ONE TIME....IM JUST THE STRUGGLER...)

von tweeted this one and i thought it was funny

i drew this one literally today lol also inspired by a von tweet!! a little bit of miki manami hcs kinda (ive been meaning to do art studies with them bc i have clear views of how the trio look in my head but im not very good at body variation...parkourist tsuno you are so important to me ill draw you well one day) also just know all of the isono hcs are me projecting thank u

isono miki digital angel real (featuring wader)

OOOOO YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT TETRO SU FUSIONS SOOOOOO BAD ametrine is my fave out of my finished ones so she gets posted yay

i saw the project sekai movie when it came out so i made sure masa miki did too (just realized i forgot wadas eyebrows um...im not going back to fix it sorry idk what canvas this doodle is on)

more sanrios except i assigned one to the whole cast and planned on drawing them all... then gave up basically before i even started lol (if anyone sees this please draw ojima with harenochi nyua and color it all cutelike ty)

/ 11. back to my roots: drawing wada over and over again (i was going through severe genuine withdrawals when i drew these i love drawing wadas)

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Act II ~ The Challenge

A tapestry for chapter 2 of Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3