With the last drops of this semester's oil burning, there may be no better time to pen some final thoughts. Most of the time in this space I have been reflecting on particular happenings affecting me at that moment: getting paired with the Bok center, coding MagicMountain, etc. Immersed in the moment these reflections not only provided documentation of the process but provided me the space at the time to step away from the work and reflect. With a project like MagicMountain, these steps away were a particularly helpful time for me to reconnect my growing technical focus to my original conceptual background. For example, I remember writing up a reflection post prior to my Prompts and Play demonstration where I was outlining my inspiration for the idea being my experience in the classroom. Just this act of recitation helped snap me out of a period of intense technical focus, where at the time I was making the shift away from using Google Slides as a presentation format to Notion. At the time this was a change made out of technical necessity, however my reflection here reaffirmed to me that the importance of pursuing a developmentally appropriate platform for my final product. Additionally, these reflections allowed me an opportunity to be critical about the project. A concern I voiced in my third post that I still reckon with today is the question of how MagicMountain rubs up against privacy concerns in the classroom. If only for their ability to bring about critical reflection, these reflections would be worth their weight.
This said, these reflections on the process of creating MagicMountain laid out here will be commonplace. All my future projects hosted here will feature similar levels of documentation and reflection. The value is abundantly clear, and a great way to life the curtain on the processual nature of the work aside from simply holding up the finished project. So, thank you for following MagicMountain so far, stay tuned for more updates, and thank you for supporting the project!
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