{"id":1307,"date":"2026-07-23T12:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:53:52","slug":"practicum-partner-touch-base-recap-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/practicum-partner-touch-base-recap-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Practicum Reflection 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>July 23, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I reconfirmed that this practicum project is closer to an<em> internship<\/em> rather than a self-directed study. Academic research can serve as a foundational framework and rationale; however, the main focus should be on developing practical tools and guidelines through open-ended design exploration. The goal is to demonstrate the <em>possibilities<\/em> of using AI to visualize syllabi and <em>empower<\/em> faculty by providing clear, step-by-step workflows, prompts, and examples that they can apply in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Action Items<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/course-schedule\/\"><strong>Course Schedule<\/strong> &#8211; Explore possibilities for visualizing the course timeline\/horizontal view so learners can easily see where they are in the course journey.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/visual-syllabus-learning-outcomes\/\"><strong>Learning Objectives<\/strong> &#8211; Explore ways to visualize learning objectives so students are encouraged to engage with them and understand their connections with assessments (e.g., showing relationships between learning objectives and assignments).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/visual-syllabus-readings\/\"><strong>Reading List<\/strong> &#8211; Explore ways to visualize resources through a more inclusive and decolonized syllabus approach (e.g., colour-coding resources based on research origins, authors, topics, Indigenous-related content\/authors, peer-reviewed sources, books\/articles\/media types).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1119&amp;action=edit\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1119&amp;action=edit\"><strong>Research Questions<\/strong> &#8211; Convert Practicum Objectives into research questions.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/204415\">https:\/\/canvas.ubc.ca\/courses\/204415<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 23, 2026 I reconfirmed that this practicum project is closer to an internship rather than a self-directed study. Academic research can serve as a foundational framework and rationale; however, the main focus should be on developing practical tools and guidelines through open-ended design exploration. The goal is to demonstrate the possibilities of using AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-etec-581"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1427,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rankang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}