1. SMART goal:
    1. I learn how to teach myself landscape design during the month of January so that I can continue to learn beyond my Gaia U work. While I pursue my pedagogical analysis of myself as an autodidact, I explore landscape design through drawing, principles, tools, computer programs, plants for zone 5a+-, hardscaping, cost estimates, and create a few designs of local friends. I will know 20 new plants, different drawing techniques for plants and hardscaping, vernacular, and teach a workshop in drawing. I include methods for memorizing dendrology, drawing, online class options, and suggested readings. I complete this OP by February 1st.
  2. Links:
    1. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22008859469/in/album-72157652095185465/
    2. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22183033322/in/album-72157652095185465/
    3. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22169606096/in/album-72157652095185465/
    4. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22169605036/in/album-72157652095185465/
    5. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/21574708023/in/album-72157652095185465/
    6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22008858139/in/album-72157652095185465/
    7. https://www.flickr.com/photos/127203263@N05/22011293839/in/album-72157652095185465/
    8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_cycle
  3. Confucius, I hear and I forget ; I see and I remember ; I do and I understand.
  4. Week 1: 1/4-1/10
    1. Meet with Nicole
    2. Meet with Jennifer
    3. Review xMind OPs 2-4
    4. Create/Revise goals statements --See SMART Goal, create un/learning goals
    5. Visions
      1. What will this OP do for me?
      2. What will it do for others?
    6. Write Specification and Abstract
    7. Write Purpose, Goals, Guidelines, UnLearnings, Feedback from previous OPs
      1. What is the purpose of this OP? How does the work that you report in here and the work of constructing the OP meet: a) learning and unlearning goals of your own and b) the needs of the global eco-social regeneration community.
    8. Review Learning Styles: Holistic, Bloom, Kolb, TALC, Dunn, 5 Es
    9. Set up Learning Environment: see Dunn Stimuli
    10. Review Habits of Mind and Learning Pyramid
    11. Collect Resources: online courses/design programs, books, videos; tools-markers, paper, pens, rulers; boundary partners-Jon, Tim Morrill, Eliza...
    12. Create reading plan--1-2 books/week; Active Note Taking notebook
    13. Create plant learning plan: 3-4 plants/week, begin journal
    14. Decide plants for week
    15. E-mail people about workshop in drawing
    16. Lesson plans: balance of reading, videos, demonstration and practice, ending with teaching others
    17. Design OP-- Blooms Taxonomy (week 1 Low Level [knowledge/comprehension] week 2 High Level [Application/Analysis] week 3, High Level [Synthesis/Evaluation])
      1. https://lccfestivaloflearning2012.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/support-document-13-blooms-taxonomy-teacher-planning-kit.jpg
    18. Low Level: KNOWLEDGE and COMPREHENSION
    19. Vocabulary list
    20. Read 2 books, note taking
    21. Reflect on week:
      1. Revans/Marquart formula: - Learning = Programming (content) + Questions (of various sorts) + Reflection
      2. Learning Journal Entry
      3. 4 Qs
    22. Test knowledge acquisition!
  5. Week 2: 1/11-1/17
    1. High Level: APPLICATION and ANALYSIS
    2. Decide plants for week
    3. Email friends for design opportunities, decide on one and meet
    4. Client Interview
    5. Design for friend
      1. Ethan Roland's SADIE:
        1. Schematic Design
        2. Conceptual Design
        3. Finish design
    6. Design workshop flyer
    7. Finalize date for workshop, send out invites
    8. Read 2 books, note taking
    9. Practice drawing techniques
      1. plants
      2. hardscapes
      3. full scale
      4. buildings
    10. Reflect on week:
      1. Revans/Marquart formula: - Learning = Programming (content) + Questions (of various sorts) + Reflection
      2. Learning Journal Entry
      3. 4 Qs
    11. Test knowledge acquisition!
  6. Week 3: 1/18-1/24
    1. High Level: SYNTHESIS and EVALUATION
    2. Decide plants for week
    3. Advertise workshop
    4. Read 2 books, note taking
    5. Practice drawing techniques
    6. Opinion pieces of landscape design
    7. Create formulas
    8. Create comparison of Permaculture vs Conventional techniques/principles
    9. Writing for OP
    10. Create OP Mahara collection
    11. Reflect on week:
      1. Revans/Marquart formula: - Learning = Programming (content) + Questions (of various sorts) + Reflection
      2. Learning Journal Entry
      3. 4 Qs
    12. Test knowledge acquisition!
  7. Week 4: 1/25-1/31
    1. Workshop
      1. Review workshop
        1. Collect Feedback from participants
        2. Test self before and after teaching? How do I feel about the information I taught/learned now?
        3. How did I employ the tools I used to learn Landscape Design in the workshop? Practice, teaching others, reading, audio-visual...?
    2. Reflect on week:
      1. Revans/Marquart formula: - Learning = Programming (content) + Questions (of various sorts) + Reflection
      2. Learning Journal Entry
      3. 4 Qs
    3. Write Intro and Conclusion
    4. Write Supporting Evidence
      1. Annotated Resource Review
      2. Un/Learning Journal Entries
        1. Context
          1. What influenced the context?
          2. Who else was there?
        2. Outcomes and goals
          1. What were the outcomes I noticed?
          2. What outcomes did other people notice?
          3. Which of these outcomes met my goals or the goals of a client?
          4. Which of these outcomes will contribute to my long term goals or those of a client?
          5. Where there any challenging and/or surprising outcomes?
          6. Did or do any of these need remedial action and could they be seen as positive emerging directions?
        3. Un/Learnings:
          1. What will I do differently next time and, if I were mentoring another person to navigate a similar situation, what would my advice be?
          2. Do I indicate and analyze ways of un/learning in order to create future learning opportunities on a personal, professional and project level?
          3. Do I provide any examples of un/learning patterns?
        4. See journal map below (from Andrew Langford)
      3. Time Log
      4. Word Count
      5. Digiphon
        1. What digital tools were used?
        2. Any new to me?
        3. Tutorials I can offer? Posted to forum?
      6. Participation Records
        1. EoY presentation
        2. Guild buddies
        3. Advising Notes
          1. Nicole
          2. Jennifer
        4. Think and Listens
        5. Gaia Radio attendance
        6. Forum posts
      7. Evidence of Outcomes
        1. Images/video
        2. Newspaper clippings
        3. Flyers and brochures
        4. Teaching plans
        5. Grant applications
        6. Materials taught/published
        7. Affidavits and shout-outs
      8. Skillflex Assessment
        1. Spreadsheet
      9. Pathway Tracking
        1. Look back to LIPD, check timelines and Mahara to-do lists
    5. Reflections and Commentary
      1. OP Design Process
        1. What design method did I choose and why?
        2. OP Process Un/Learnings
          1. What went well?
          2. What was challenging?
          3. What would I do differently next time?
      2. Managing Time, Managing Promises
        1. Tools used?
          1. Eisenhower Matrix
          2. Estimating Tools
          3. Calendar
          4. Timelines
        2. Self-eval of progress:
          1. Comitments balanced to capacities?
          2. Due dates missed? Renogotiated?
          3. Realistic estimates of time?
          4. Saying yes/no/let me get back to you when necessary? (trusting instinct, acting impulsively...)
        3. Any "life-happens" situations? How were they dealt with?
        4. Have I improved my abilities to manage time and manage promises as a project manager?
      3. Interventions, Timing, and Transitions
        1. Designed/Improvised interventions
          1. How was I intervening in the situation?
          2. When did I intervene and why/what prompted it?
          3. How was the timing significant?
        2. Thinking and Doing
          1. How did I adapt planned actions to unforeseen outcomes with clear pauses from "doing" in order to evaluate the next steps?
          2. Did I zoom in and out to vary the view of the action?
          3. Do I use myth, models, metaphor, research and theory to understand complex situations?
          4. Do I work logically, systematically and intuitively?
          5. Was I ever in paralysis by analysis?
        3. Reflection and Experimentation
          1. Do I create time, space, allies necessary for quality reflection?
          2. Am I keen to search out meaning and take different perspectives?
          3. Do I run rapid prototypes and early trials to bypass speculative paralysis?
          4. Did I abandon designs, retune, tweak, reschedule, switch approaches?
          5. Did I turn constraints into opportunities?
      4. Competence and Attention
        1. Personal Development
          1. Self care
          2. Patrix-busting
          3. Inter and Intra relationship development
          4. Non-violent communication
          5. Health and well-being
          6. Spiritual Growth
          7. Un/Learnings
          8. Noticing emotional patterns
        2. Professional Development
          1. Do I note my own strengths and limitations arising from experiences in workplaces, organizations, and projects?
      5. Poems
      6. Dissemination Efforts
        1. Have I made a realistic appraisal of the 'value' of my work in the field of ecosocial design and regeneration?
        2. Who has been impacted and how?
      7. Leadership, Facilitation, Mentoring
        1. How and when was I an active leader, support person, follower, and mentor?
        2. Did I use processes like the 4 Q's, Think and Listens....
      8. Patrix-Busting
        1. Do I consider the intersections arising from the Patrix in the context of the project and in the meme-plex?
        2. Have I been able to make a difference to these memes ?
    6. Final Editting
    7. Submit OP3 February 1st