Dan Swanton

Want to know more about our 'Backbone' project on scoliosis funded by @ScoliResearch? Come to my @edfringe Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas show on 6 (tinyurl.com/3wz2yhh8) or 13 Aug (tinyurl.com/5n74dn6f)! @dswanton @RMHunt17 @Pip__T @DrCarolineBrown @DrCB00 Pls RT

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@dompates @timbocop @UoE_Teaching @sboydie @hintondm @UoE_EFI @joe_noteboom @mhawksey @jar @THAThybridpod @joe_berry @eddkyi @DrJPritchard @geo_outreach We used the approach this year - although it was more challenging. Longer term plan is to use materials to introduce Year 1&2 students to Edinburgh. On other courses we focused on making online materials that we'd use for preparing students for field trips.

@dswanton @timbocop @UoE_Teaching @sboydie @hintondm @UoE_EFI @joe_noteboom @mhawksey @jar @THAThybridpod @joe_berry @eddkyi @DrJPritchard @geo_outreach Fascinating. Quite a serious amount of work too. Has this approach to field trips endured post-lockdown?

Quick reflections on 2 day @UoE_EFI fusion (hybrid) workshop. 4 online and 9 in-room students worked together (Teams for voice + text, Miro whiteboard for ideation). I had excellent help: @joe_noteboom on the teaching side, @mhawksey on the tech side + @jar observing.

@timbocop @UoE_Teaching @sboydie @dompates @hintondm @UoE_EFI @joe_noteboom @mhawksey @jar @THAThybridpod @joe_berry @eddkyi @DrJPritchard @geo_outreach Thanks @timbocop. @dompates happy to talk about putting 'hybrid field trips'. Might be interested in this reflection too: express.adobe.com/page/UcrNkS0sp…

@UoE_Teaching @sboydie @dompates @hintondm @UoE_EFI @joe_noteboom @mhawksey @jar @THAThybridpod @joe_berry @eddkyi @DrJPritchard @geo_outreach Looks great! Tagging @dswanton in case he has thoughts for @dompates?

We are looking for the newest member of the @ROHrabies team @wellcometrust : 4 year Human Geography PDRA position @EdinburghUni; multispecies research on street dogs and public health in India. Apply by the 24th Jan 22. edin.ac/3F3K6MM @GeosciencesEd @SniffThePastDog

@LTHEchat A4. I try a mix of activities that encourage students to interact and do things while working with ideas - things I’ve found work well include role plays, Lego, graffiti, show and tell with photographs…

Q4 Using this definition (Student Participation) "The process by which students are encouraged to actively take part in a learning activity." How do you create an environment where students want to actively participate? What are your key strategies? #LTHEchat 211

@LTHEchat A3. Feel is starts with sharing my own enthusiasm and curiosity. Also about working with diverse materials and creating spaces and opportunities for the students to work, play and think with content #LTHEchat

Q3 Using this definition (Student Motivation) "A student's enthusiasm and interest directed towards specific topics or learning activities." How do you encourage motivation in your students? How do you develop enthusiasm in learners? #LTHEchat 211

Teaching with Lego: @EdinburghUni’s @dswanton explains how using #Lego to demonstrate and apply lessons in class promotes play and interaction that leads to better engagement and peer discussion as part of active learning design #THECampus bit.ly/3tajLZ6

A short thing I've written about teaching with Lego: timeshighereducation.com/campus/teachin… via @timeshighered

In this post, @dswanton describes the development of a hybrid field course for Year 3 students on the Masters of Geography programme. This alternative approach opened up practices of participation and observation, and innovative ways of study in the field teaching-matters-blog.ed.ac.uk/a-local-altern…

Daniel successfully defended his PhD “Enabling Assemblages” today (& received a special Dr badge). ⁦A big thankyou to his examiners ⁦@alxndrt⁩ & ⁦@CresswellTim⁩. His PhD parents are very proud. ⁦@dswanton,⁩ @daniel_m_z⁩

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@Katrina_Swanton We’ve ALL heard this kind of stuff from @dswanton B4...

In all the doom in HE right now - some positive and amazing things are happening! @dswanton has just kicked off the first leg of this 24 hour relay organised by students in @GeosciencesEd to raise money to support mental health charity justgiving.com/fundraising/ed… - 1/2

Q.6 Super important...with everything that's happening marking learning playful, fun and social seems like an effective way of engaging students #LTHEchat

Q5. Time to build up confidence and reinforcing purpose and value of creative activities #LTHEchat

A4. Frantic...it's been a long day and I'm novice tweeter! #LTHEchat

A3 More zines. Seems more important than ever to time to go analogue and craft something. Also enjoying using padlet to bring in different voices, perspectives and examples #LTHE

A2 walking - using walks to encourage learners to spend time away from a screen and responding to the world around them #LTHEchat

A1. using lego to get students building and storying as a way of discussing readings on urban division; zines as an assessment to encourage students to craft accounts of fieldwork and think about ethics of knowledge making and sharing #LTHEchat

Practicing some more - decided to sketch a paper - and chose this new one by @kay_sambell and @ProfSallyBrown (link below)...I hope they like it, but given their expertise, I am expecting constructive feedback :)

We're delighted to share these resources for #RemoteResearch, curated by my colleague Antonio Ferraz de Oliveira, designed originally to support our undergraduates who are being forced to reformulatr their dissertations due to #COVID19 #AcademicTwitter - docs.google.com/document/d/1Oe…