The HAPS blog site has been created to promote HAPS members sharing personal accounts of topics relevant to the HAPS membership and the larger community. The blog is the perfect place to publish content on a wide variety of topics, from teaching tips to A&P related camps or experiences. Ideal blog posts are between 300-500 words and contain a few images. As a blog author, you just need to provide your text and images – the HAPS Blog team will take care of editing and publication.
We invite everyone to join in the conversation and become part of the community. If you are an active HAPS member, you can become a blogger on HAPSblog in just a few easy steps:
1) Review the HAPS Blog guidelines.
2) Think up a topic that will be interesting to HAPS members. Topics that are likely to be interesting include the story of your first year teaching, integrating new methods in the classroom with real-time evaluation of how it is going, a multi-part series on a specific topic ranging from teaching to testing to building a new lab.
3) Propose your topic and timeframe in a short email to the HAPS Blog Master by emailing hapsblog@hapsconnect.org.
4) Start blogging!
HAPS Leadership (#2): Testing Committee
Let me tell you about the HAPS Steering Committee. It is made up of the chairs of various committees…
HAPS Leadership (#1): The president-elect
Our president, Valerie O’Loughlin, blogged recently about our mid-year meeting in Jacksonville. She explained how the Board of Directors…
17- My First “Cooperative Quiz”
Today is EXAM DAY. My students had an External Brain exam this morning and will take their written and…
Flipping A & P: Taking a Hit
I’m so glad that my Associate Dean warned me about the hit I would take on my student evaluations…
HAPS Midyear meeting – where, when, and why?
One of my jobs as HAPS President to plan the agenda for the HAPS Midyear meeting. This meeting is…
16- Student Thoughts on the Riggs-Style External Brain
At the beginning of every class this semester, I ask my students to answer two questions. First, I ask…
Flipping A & P: Synergy
I work out. I don’t particularly enjoy it, but I make myself do it for my own good. Sound…
High Hopes for the Semester, Part 4
Now, that was unexpected. One of my “high maintenance” students – mentioned in the last blog installment – has…
15- Why Do We Do This?
I’m on week five of my 16 week semester. It is 11:30pm and I haven’t yet solidified the activities…
Flipping A & P: The Benefit of the Second Chance
I really want my students to understand Anatomy and Physiology, not just memorize the terms and some factoids. So…
Cooperative Quizzes – The First Step To Flip Your Classroom
Most of us in HAPS thrived in high school, college, and even graduate school classrooms that were driven by…
14- The External Brain
As some of you probably know, I got a little bit fired up about the External Brain as presented…