Skillflex assessment
My tracking document can be seen below, and the results here.
I noted that I am deficient (November 13, 2015) in the following categories:
- Local Community Involvement (3)
- Reading speed, efficiency, and effectiveness (5)
- Balancing Action/Theory (5)
- Balancing Reflection/Prototyping (5)
- Trading and Livelihood skills (5)
The areas which I've improved since my last entry (November 11, 2014), at the beginning of this project:
- Maintaining Schedule/Routine (6-9)
- Transparency and Integrity (5-7)
- Documenting achievements, experiments, unlearnings (3-6)
- Transition Capacity (3-5)
- Content in Professional Sector (3-6)
- Communication (4-8)
Time log
Specification and Abstract: 2 hoursCore Report: 13 hoursSupporting Evidence: 5 hoursImaging and Formatting: 7 hoursResearch: 4 hoursTotal: 31 hoursWord Count
Specifications and Abstract: 594
Core Report: 3,540
Process Reflections: 277
TOTAL: 4,311 (min. requirement: 4,200)
Advising Notes from Nicole
The advising notes from my call with Nicole on October 20, 2015 can be found here.
Digiphon
Notes application on MacBookFlickr and Aviary EdittingScreen shot (shift + command + 4)Google Drive (Docs, Forms, Spreadsheets, Drawing)FacebookGmailxMind MapsCloud Converter (for uploading to Google Drive)iPhone camera None of these are new tools to me--I haven't had the need to find new software or programs, though I certainly will come my project OPs.Peer Contact and Participation
I have tried several times to connect with Gaia U peers over the past few months and it's proved very difficult. Time zones and schedule differences make calls hard to plan. I hope to connect with Charlie since I know him personally and we get along very well. Perhaps he can be a constant guild buddy.
LIPD Planning
This XMind map shows my LIPD planning with an outline and drafted writings for each element, requirements, schedule and risk management. Click on the "Full screen" button while hovering to get a better view.
Annotated Resource Review
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Information: Page 2: Commentary and Reflections Kolb Model Page 3: Goals, Skills, Interests 8P's - My twist on the 5. Awakening the Dreamer - from Laura Kastele, originally from Pachamama Alliance Negative Theories - Dan Harris and Lauren Zander, also Handel Group Page 4: Projects, Timelines, and Plans Paralysis by Analysis, Extinction by Instinct articles - http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/18128/ http://personalexcellence.co/blog/analysis-paralysis/ http://www.slideshare.net/hsumait123/ decision-leadership-sdg-stanford-university
6 Thinking Hats - From Edward de Bono, simple and effective way of looking at everything! Decision Making - from the Handbook on it. Page 5: OP Planning Mindmap, bottom - from PoDAPO form, Mindmap "Planning" Template, notes form Andrew Langford's OP Collection templates.
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Images: Page 1: Spec. and Abstract Gustav Klimpt "Tree of Life" - I love Klimpt's work, and this image just popped into my mind when I was thinking of where I am starting in my pathway. Page 2: Commentary and Reflections Brain - I stumbled across this image while looking for new learning models I love the image and the words represented in each area of the brain. Self-Reflection Poster - I also stumbled across this image, this time looking for reflection models. Pay It Forward Farm - Image taken by Rachel Chabot, plucked from Facebook. Page 3: Goals, Skills, Interests Dream Tree - I had a blank space in the page and felt a nice image would help--Google searching "Dream Image" was successful! AQAL - The AQAL model was originally found on Tommy Lehe's capstone LIPD, then I found other examples and tied them together to suit me. Habits of Mind Chart - Found Costa and Kallick haphazardly while looking for visioning exercises. Page 4: Projects, Timelines, and Plans Decision-Making - My drawing, thinking comes from one of Laura Kaestele's mindmaps. Paralysis by Analysis - My drawing, link redirects to original diagram of center quadrant. 6-step Research Process - My drawing, link redirects to original. Critical Path Analysis - The most complex and yet simple diagram of CPAs. Backcasting - The nicest image I could find of backcasting. Dunn and Dunn Learning Model - My drawing, a creative meditation of the stimuli and elements. Page 5: OP Planning
Google Calendar - Screenshot of my Google Calendar.
Page 6:
Video - Dan Harris Google Talks: about his meditation practices and how it saved him.
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Un/Learning Journal Entries
November 25
I'm getting anxious to start my projects! What's the antithesis of "paralysis by analysis"? Ceding before completing? Leaping before reaping?
It's just so exciting! And I seem to have left all the crumbly bumbly unfunny stuff to do at the end--but this was a good move because I would be daunted by the lack of overall completion.
This is what I really have left to do:
draw different diagrams of potential pathways leading from project OPS (branches, spirals….)
Descriptions of specific goals and interrelation to projects
Dunn Learning stimuli—OP planning?
Answer questions:
- what do i want to learn?
- how do i want to live?
- who do i want to be a part of my path?
- when do i plan to do all these things
- where do i plan to do them?
on goals, skills, interests: add themes of all ops:
- auto didaction pedagogy
- lesson planning for self
- self-discipline
- promise keeping
- intervention points (conscious)
- change negative theories on life
- trust instinct
- remove negative voice from head
- travel and expierntial learning
- spend more time outside
- better at taking care of friends and family
- self-care, noticing stress and emotional imbalance.
November 18
What’s going well?
- Work: making money, keeping schedule, looking at Ragged Mtn jobs (would be awesome to ride, been dreaming of boarding a lot).
- Jon: started shoe cubby project, has job that’s giving him new skills and making really good money. He got me a kitty, Mowgli! maybe Moguls.
- School: very excited for all 3 projects, have planned them out pretty in-depth so they should fly smoothly, assuming not much else changes in my life.
- Friends: made quite a few gooduns through work.
Challenging?
- Work: don’t particularly learn much at my jobs. Kinda fun, kinda frustrating. Making ok money, enough to sustain.
- Dreams of travel: when? where? why not NOW? Pete and Eric and Story and not knowing how to help
Dream?
- Travel: refugee camps aid? South America volunteer? BC volunteer? Sailing with Kinley?
- Landscape Design: harder knowledge of plants, etc; installing rain gardens, edible food forests, etc. for people of need and also for big businesses (i.e. airports to reduce their “carbon emissions”)
Next steps?
- finish school
- make $3-$4000 for travel by April
- stop smoking and drinking
- apply to Ragged or Sunapee
- look at projects and visa requirements, grants and jobs
- TESL or TEFL…
November 7
- Make every student do an xMind of the PoDAPO form during the Orientation using their own words.
- Rewrite the PoDAPO form to be less wordy and esoteric. Colloquial language would help, and I imagine this to be especially true for ESL students.
October 27
Having trouble with OP2. Trying out NASA’s design process:
Identify the problem:
- there was no design going into the PDC, it was total mishmosh hodgepodge. How do I synthesize the information into a solid, useful piece?
Identify Criteria and Constraints:
- Need to have design of OP and design of Project. Needs to be useful to others and provide guidance. Constraints: no clear design in project.
Possible Solutions:
- Survey (what went wrong? what went well?), Analysis (why did it go wrong? why did it go well?), Design (an alternative/better way the PDC could have gone)
- Reflector, Theorist, Pragmatist (have already been the activist)
- Experiential Learning Model: Experience, Publish, Process, Generalize, (Apply) ****
- Experiential Learning Cycle: Act (concrete experience, facts, what happened, theory of action) - Reflect (observation, feelings -what did i experience, assess behavior and consequences) - Conceptualize (abstract, findings -why did this happen, revise theory) - Apply (active experimentation, futures -what will i do, implement revised theory)
- Engaged Learning Pyramid: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Creating, Evaluating, Analyzing (go backward?) (maybe just Remember, Evaluate, Analyze, Understand, Create?)
- For design of next PDC, use Service Learning Cycle (pre-service, service, post-service)
Generate Ideas:
Tell story through Journal entries, annotated. Give brief description of background: site, energy, social, abstract. Use pictures and a Prezi to demonstrate timeline like I did for permie house design. Make evaluation spreadsheet from student feedback. Ask bruce/lark for financial info. Communicate with Stephane, Sebo, Sophie. Create model/overlay timeline of what COULD have happened—design better version of truth. Provide resources for course material and cultural integration of students.