The Reflective Report: Recent Episodes
Sam Stoner
In this episode, Sam reflects on his reflection from a few days ago. Hear how this new form of reflection worked for him and get tips on how it could work for you too!
In this episode, Sam discusses his media content consumption and how it relates to the media he produces. This is an important reflection as it helps me understand how I engage with media and use that to better communicate with an outward audience.
In this episode, Sam talks about his discovery of the streaming platform, Twitch, a few years ago and explains why it is a good example of collaborative media.
Links:
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/
Twitch stats referenced: https://twitchtracker.com/statistics
In this first episode of season 2, Sam reflects on his experience of starting a blog a few years ago. He takes the materials he is learning in class and applies them to what he could do better in future blog posts.
In the Season 1 Finale of The Reflective Report, Sam reflects on his journey of navigating his first grad school course while also working full time.
Today, Sam talks through a reflection on the process of switching website host and builder platforms. He'll describe why he needed to make this change and what he has learned to improve in the next iteration of his website.
Storyboarding as a concept is quite simple, but extremely meticulous and detailed in practice. In this episode, Sam takes us on a walk through his first encounter with storyboarding and reflects on how he could improve next time.
Here is the link to this very fascinating LInkedIn Learning video on Storyboarding by Dermot O'Conner. If you don't have a LinkedIn Learning account, I highly recommend it, there is some really cool stuff on there.
In this episode, Sam breaks down the three stages of design thinking and applies them to the development of his personal online portfolio website. You'll hear about how working through the empathy, define, and ideate stages can dramatically improve your understanding of how a user engages with your website.
Listen as Sam describes his first experience with a Design Thinking Workshop with his Master's class. Sam will reflect on the various stages of a Design Thinking Workshop and talk about its impact on his design projects going forward. For more on how Design Thinking Workshops operate, watch this video!
In this episode, Sam recalls the moment he and his wife, Rebekah, first discovered they were ready to start looking into buying a house. This experience is analyzed with a lens of critical thinking based on the lessons learned in a LinkedIn Learning video on that topic.
In this episode, Sam is reflecting on the video, "Princeton Lecture: Lessons from 30 Years of Innovation at IDEO". You can watch the full video here. Specifically, Sam takes a look at the decision to create an online portfolio for himself over half a year ago and what he would do differently next time. Below you can find timestamps of the Princeton Lecture that stuck out to Sam.
CREATIVITY
10:00 - Design thinking
13:00 - Creative Confidence
108:00 - Feedback Loop
TEAMWORK
16:00 - Indeterminacy is Okay
21:00 - Teamwork = Engaging People
24:10 - People are Key in Teamwork
55:22 - Team Collaboration
STORYTELLING
30:01 - Storytelling Skills
32:30 - Importance of Portfolios as Stories
38:31 - Human Centered Design
43:51 - Understand Your Audience
In this episode, Sam talks through why he decided to respond to his reflective report assignments with a podcast. He'll talk about his DIY recording equipment and reflect on things he can do to improve for the next episode.
In this episode, join Sam as he walks through the practice of reflecting on his first reading assignment for his Digital Media Strategy course in grad school.