Scott: So part of what we always have done in DMAC, and I think that we tried to do especially this year, was to build in some layers of reflection on that production, because one of the things we all know is that when you get involved with writing or any kind of production you sometimes get so involved with it that you forget to pay attention to some of those milestone moments--those times where something really interesting has happened, or something--you've overcome some really big challenge. And we forget sometimes to stop and to make sense of what has gone on at that particular moment. So we have built into an assignment this year that, as participants are building a multimodal piece of text--and it happens to be our Concept in 90 assignment--that they stop when they finally find themselves at one of those moments where something--where they can record something and reflect on it. 
We're asking them to do two things: one is to create a record of the text itself--and sometimes that's just a simple export--and then to take the time to write or to speak about what was going on in that particular moment. And I really like that word "record." Record and record--I like those words in that sense. I remember hearing one of my favorite musicians, Jonatha Brooke, talking about using the word in this digital age, how much she really liked using the word "record" still to describe the song, the actual song she had recorded, because she said "It is a record of me, as a musician, at that time, in that place, using those technologies," and so that when her song is captured live somewhere, that's a different kind of record, and she really likes that terminology.

The term "reflection" is an interesting one for me because I kind of... You know, reflection is often thought of as the process of looking back. But I don't think that's what reflection really--well, definitely it's about looking backwards at something, but I think the reason we reflect, or the reason we're asking these participants to reflect is actually to move forward. To take that moment and think about where they've been, to take that moment to figure out where they are currently, but the last thing we want is the process to stop there. The process of reflection is really--the way we're structuring it with DMAC--is really to kind of propel you to the next moment to when you can then stop and do the reflection. So it's very much about forward movement for me and the way that we've structured it in DMAC.