{"id":69,"date":"2016-03-15T19:42:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/?p=69"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:42:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:42:39","slug":"festival-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/2016\/03\/15\/festival-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to be asked to be a Keynote speaker on the opening day of Teesside University\u2019s 2016 Festival of Learning &#8211; a week long event exploring different aspects to teaching and learning. My talk was on the interplay between teaching and research, and I decided to use my group\u2019s excellent work in both areas to highlight the benefits of using research as a hook for teaching.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2016\/03\/image-14-03-16-02-41.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-70\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2016\/03\/image-14-03-16-02-41-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Finished talking and ready for questions!\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2016\/03\/image-14-03-16-02-41-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2016\/03\/image-14-03-16-02-41-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/files\/2016\/03\/image-14-03-16-02-41.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finished talking and ready for questions!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019ll get the full text up online soon, but it was wonderful to get such positive feedback for the talk &#8211; but mainly for the innovative teaching that we do here. Basically, my students are very lucky..!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was delighted to be asked to be a Keynote speaker on the opening day of Teesside University\u2019s 2016 Festival of Learning &#8211; a week long event exploring different aspects to teaching and learning. My talk was on the interplay between teaching and research, and I decided to use my group\u2019s excellent work in both areas to highlight the benefits of using research as a hook for teaching. I\u2019ll get the full text up online soon, but it was wonderful to get such positive feedback&#8230;<span class=\"clearfix clearfix-post\"><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/2016\/03\/15\/festival-of-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Festival of Learning&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ogem-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/tjuthompson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}