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!
Starting on a high note: a first-week-of-fall A&P challenge
I’ll admit it: I’m a bit of an oddball. To many A&P instructors, music is a tool for learning…
ComCom Hot Potato
This post comes from the Communications Committee Talking Points Coordinator, Dr. Krista Rompolski of Drexel University. The HAPS Annual…
Making the Sausage: Revising the HAPS Bylaws in 2018
This year the HAPS board has focused on clarifying our financial instruments and has completed a top-to-bottom review of…
Bodies for Science and Education: The Startling History
Many of us in HAPS have been fortunate to have learned human anatomy either by dissecting human specimens or…
A Female Body of Knowledge: Cadavers and Caricatures
During research for past HAPS workshops, I was struck by a shift in attitudes toward and uses for dissection…
Eduard Pernkopf
Who is Eduard Pernkopf and why should we care? Eduard Pernkopf was a Nazi. That is the short of…
ABC’s of A&P
It is the ultimate challenge and lifelong pursuit of educators to facilitate learning among students with different educational backgrounds,…
HAPS in podcast form
Being the Executive Director of HAPS is a great job, in part because I never really know what opportunities…
“The Wave” – Neuron Action Potential Propagation
Some of our most popular blog posts describe teaching tips developed by HAPS members. We choose a handful of…
Join us in Columbus!
Looking to meet other A&P instructors and exchange ideas regarding A&P teaching?! Want to learn more about A&P educational…
Teaching Histology Without a Microscope
This quarter I am teaching a histology unit without a microscopy lab. Wait, histology without microscopes… what!?!? I have…
Quick analogy for subclavian artery name changes
Although it is not a particularly difficult concept, sometimes students have trouble remembering the different names that the subclavian…