Gardening Mt Vic

<p>Since Olmstead envisioned Central Park, New York, the study of gardening has slowly become the Staple of landscape historians. Gardening practices can engage the body with aesthetic experience through plants and materiality; landscape architects inform this process through expressive design intention and representations informed by conventions. When a creative drawing convention lacks sensitivity to how one reads the landscape, the intentions behind the expressions created by landscape architects become obscure or unclear. John Ward, a New Zealand Company secretary, stated that Wellington’s town belt was for “the beautiful appearance of the city to be secured.” (Cook, 1992) Over time, urban infrastructural developments have altered the boundaries of town belt parks; This was the case for Mount Victoria Park due to the 1930s development of Alexandra Road. Landscape architects recognise the significance of walking along the ridge of Mount Victoria because of its meaningful history; however, the large scale of the Mount Victoria Park means common planning practices cannot meaningfully engage with important opportunities for how its spatial compositions can dynamically affect the human experience. This is because landscape-planning tendencies typically utilise large-scale mapping to create utilitarian maintenance regimes that regiment spaces, rather than utilising landscape architectural principles in the forming of them. This design research investigation asks: how can landscape architecture establish a meaningful, human-scale experience of the garden at the scale of the large park? This study operates through design-led landscape architectural research. Site study of the Wellington Town Belt revealed that despite the scale of this site its variety of trails and open spaces for experiencing the site as a composed garden. This thesis argues that visual factors that enable composition focussed drawings to be meaningful can also be applied to the design of large-scale garden parks. Reflection on fieldwork was developed in design through crafted explorations of technique and convention resulting in a composition focussed drawing system. These designs were developed through a sensitivity to scale and drawing convention. The creative use of representation and site interpretation challenged utilitarian conceptions about the design of large-scale town belts to also include human-scale iterative visual interpretation. The results of these design experiments unified spaces and formed intense moments of beauty and meaning, during both movement and points of pause, resulting in a garden-like experience that expressed the particular beauty and unique attributes of Matairangi, Mt Victoria.</p>

Gardening Mt Vic

<p>Since Olmstead envisioned Central Park, New York, the study of gardening has slowly become the Staple of landscape historians. Gardening practices can engage the body with aesthetic experience through plants and materiality; landscape architects inform this process through expressive design intention and representations informed by conventions. When a creative drawing convention lacks sensitivity to how one reads the landscape, the intentions behind the expressions created by landscape architects become obscure or unclear. John Ward, a New Zealand Company secretary, stated that Wellington’s town belt was for “the beautiful appearance of the city to be secured.” (Cook, 1992) Over time, urban infrastructural developments have altered the boundaries of town belt parks; This was the case for Mount Victoria Park due to the 1930s development of Alexandra Road. Landscape architects recognise the significance of walking along the ridge of Mount Victoria because of its meaningful history; however, the large scale of the Mount Victoria Park means common planning practices cannot meaningfully engage with important opportunities for how its spatial compositions can dynamically affect the human experience. This is because landscape-planning tendencies typically utilise large-scale mapping to create utilitarian maintenance regimes that regiment spaces, rather than utilising landscape architectural principles in the forming of them. This design research investigation asks: how can landscape architecture establish a meaningful, human-scale experience of the garden at the scale of the large park? This study operates through design-led landscape architectural research. Site study of the Wellington Town Belt revealed that despite the scale of this site its variety of trails and open spaces for experiencing the site as a composed garden. This thesis argues that visual factors that enable composition focussed drawings to be meaningful can also be applied to the design of large-scale garden parks. Reflection on fieldwork was developed in design through crafted explorations of technique and convention resulting in a composition focussed drawing system. These designs were developed through a sensitivity to scale and drawing convention. The creative use of representation and site interpretation challenged utilitarian conceptions about the design of large-scale town belts to also include human-scale iterative visual interpretation. The results of these design experiments unified spaces and formed intense moments of beauty and meaning, during both movement and points of pause, resulting in a garden-like experience that expressed the particular beauty and unique attributes of Matairangi, Mt Victoria.</p>

“For us it works” Co-teaching in a High School Global History Class

Effective collaborative teaching is an expectation of teachers today, especially when addressing the needs of special education students. This qualitative study looked at a pair of high school co-teachers – a special education teacher and a social studies teacher. “Co-teaching,” defined by Friend and Cook (2007) as a partnership between two or more professionals who share instructional responsibility for a diverse group of students in a shared classroom space, is a service delivery model for addressing the needs of special education students, who increasingly receive their instruction in general education classrooms. Interviews and classroom observation were used to study how these two teachers understood and negotiated their roles in this partnership. The study shed light on the perceptions of special education and general education teachers on roles and responsibilities, classroom ownership, and collaborative planning. Despite a collegial relationship, both teachers acknowledged the general education teacher’s control and ownership of the classroom and the curriculum. Co-construction of lessons was limited, due partly to structural obstacles such as lack of common planning time, high special education caseloads, and the demands of multiple co-teaching partnerships on the special education teacher. Despite these obstacles, the partnership promoted inclusion by creating a general education classroom where students with and without disabilities learned together.

Revealing the impact of expertise on human planning with a two-player board game

Do skilled decision-makers plan further into the future than novices? This question has been investigated for almost 75 years, traditionally by studying expert players in complex board games like chess. However, the complexity of these games poses a barrier to detailed modeling of human behavior. Conversely, common planning tasks in cognitive science are often lower-complexity and impose a ceiling for the depth to which any player can plan. Here, we investigate expertise by studying decision-making in a board game which is at the limit of complexity that can be precisely modeled using state-of-the-art statistical techniques, and which has ample opportunity for skilled players to plan deeply. We find robust evidence for increased planning depth with expertise in both laboratory and large-scale naturalistic data.

Research on pull-type multi-AGV system dynamic path optimization based on time window

This paper is a study of the dynamic path planning problem of the pull-type multiple Automated Guided Vehicle (multi-AGV) complex system. First, based on research status at home and abroad, the conflict types, common planning algorithms, and task scheduling methods of different AGV complex systems are compared and analyzed. After comparing the different algorithms, the Dijkstra algorithm was selected as the path planning algorithm. Secondly, a mathematical model is set up for the shortest path of the total driving path, and a general algorithm for multi-AGV collision-free path planning based on a time window is proposed. After a thorough study of the shortcomings of traditional single-car planning and conflict resolution algorithms, a time window improvement algorithm for the planning path and the solution of the path conflict covariance is established. Experiments on VC++ software showed that the improved algorithm reduces the time of path planning and improves the punctual delivery rate of tasks. Finally, the algorithm is applied to material distribution in the OSIS workshop of a C enterprise company. It can be determined that the method is feasible in the actual production and has a certain application value by the improvement of the data before and after the comparison.

Dynamic production planning in the concept of competency islands

New production approaches, which are based on the autonomous decision-making of elements of such a system, create a highly dynamic environment where the determination of the final position of an element depends on the negotiation process of several members. An emergence is starting to appear in the system, and common planning and scheduling cease to be effective. Therefore, it is necessary to implement material planning systems that can work with accurate forecasts and ensure the transport of material to the negotiated place the correct material, at the right time, in the right quality, the correct quantity and sequence. The article deals precisely with the description of modern information systems, which are able to process information to meet the requirements of future production, which will need to process a vast amount of information from production, results from the bargaining processes of agents, as well as to connect individual sources so that the goal of producing the product is met at the lowest possible production lead time, at the lowest cost and highest quality.

Sharing Labs

Asking teachers to lead professional development (PD) for their peers is a complex request. Leading PD requires purposeful skill development for facilitators and thoughtful approaches to adult learning. This chapter proposes four practices for implementing teacher-driven, teacher-led PD: 1) soliciting staff input and involvement, 2) dedicating time to common planning, 3) creating a teacher-leader support structure, and 4) developing a culture of co-thinking with common shared language. These practices grew out of an urban public school's experience with implementing small-group, mixed-grade, mixed-subject PD. This teacher-led PD, called the sharing lab, empowered teacher-leaders and staff to feel valued as professionals, learn from each other using structured conversations, and apply their learning to their practice. Recommendations for future sharing labs include expanding focus to community and culture dilemmas, incorporating student voice, and aligning the sharing labs to other PD so they fit within a consistent arc of learning.

Assessing the Harmony of Supply Chain Actors in Live Animal Export: The Case of Gurage Zone, Ethiopia

This article aims to study the harmony of supply chain actors in Live Animal Export at Gurage Zone, Ethiopia. This problem is relevant and researches in this sense can help policies that aim to improve the functioning of supply chains. Harmony of supply chain is the collaboration level of supply chain participants which is measured in terms of common planning and action guidelines they have, how they share information and generally the overall relations they have one another. Being descriptive in design, the study has targeted main live animals supply chain actors who are 719 producers, 6 traders and 2 exporters in Gurage zone from whom 257 producers were randomly chosen as a sample and all the traders and exporter have been used directly from whom questionnaires were collected from. The findings have proved that there is relatively consistent flow of information throughout the supply chain actors in live animals export in Gurage zone. Additionally there have been seen that there is a culture of planning jointly among the chain actors followed by having common updating means in case of plan fails to meet the expectations even though there exists problems of sitting for evaluation of actions made by the chain elements which is the key for future improvement of the export business. Finally it has been found that the overall harmony of the chain actors is attractive with some reservations.

Studentsentrert undervisning i lærerutdanning. «Når alle er engasjert og har lest, blir det fort en spennende diskusjon.»

In this chapter, we present a self-study project (Zeichner, 2007) about student-centered education for student teachers. The aim was to explore in what way student-centered education might increase students’ engagement and learning in adapted education. We used social-cultural theory and a dialogical framework (Dysthe, 1996) both as the basis for planning education and analysis of the data. We built up the education for the students as a “learning-pattern” of different kinds of dialogue. As method, we employed a questionnaire, which the students filled in at the end of the project. We found many examples of how individual reading and listening on the one hand, and collective writing and group discussion on the other hand interacted with each other and thereby increased student learning and engagement. However, a challenge was to involve students more actively in planning their own learning process to increase both learning and democratic participation. Our common planning, teaching and research made it possible for us to both develop our teaching and develop new knowledge about student-centered education.