Assignment: In general, when a Learning Record Observation is due you will hand in two or more pages typed, double-spaced, on your development since your last LR assignment in confidence, independence, and skill with respect to reading, writing, speaking and listening, and the specific course goals you adopted. You will include an “updated’ list of goals and organize your observation by number corresponding to your goals. You will notice the word “updated” concerning goals because you may revise them as you go along. If you do, make sure to show how you revised them on the first page and explain in the observation why you did so. However, now at the middle and end of the term you will especially want to be reflective, increasing your consciousness of your own learning styles and creative processes. A key to this awareness is to incorporate quotes from Ram Dass's The Witness (in your course anthology). Points will be deducted if you don't integrate at least two of these quotations. In addition, because visual rhetoric is a component of the grade for the course, you must include ALL pictures of yourself in "action" in the course that are on our website. (Select "Pictures" and then go through the folders downloading the relevant pictures. Then incorporate them in color in your text). Points will be deducted for every picture of you in the course that is missing. (You may add additional pictures also, if you wish.) The purpose of the pictures, of course, is for you to stand outside yourself and see yourself, literally. Hence you must actually discuss what you see in the picture for at least two of the pictures. All pictures are to be placed in the text where they are most relevant to the text. None are to be placed at the end. Particularly important is your development in relation to the course strands indicated by the assignments we have covered in the previous time period in the course. For example, in the first weeks those strands might be interpersonal skills (getting to know classmates); computers and HTML; left vs. right side of the brain, visual as well as verbal ways of knowing; interdisciplinary connections (between writing, drawing, reading, architecture, landscape architecture, etc.); emotional literacy and other intelligences; relations you perceive between this class and past courses (“hammer your thoughts into unity”); discovery learning, . . . . However, this is not a diary, not a record of what you did. You need to be self-reflective: focusing on how well you are meeting your goals for the course, changes in your awareness of self and the world around you, development of new styles of learning, etc. Your LR also includes complaints, difficulties with the course, and suggestions for changes.