3- Community
Don’t tell anyone, but I would be willing to pay TEN TIMES my HAPS dues to be a member of the society, because my HAPS membership is THAT valuable to me. Now, I’m certainly glad I don’t have to pay…
Wendy Riggs
2- Getting ready for the tornado!
I am taking advantage of my last few relatively empty days before the new-semester-tornado hits me full in the face. Many of the items on my ToDo list from the last week are HAPS related. I already nominated a student…
1- The Archive of Teaching Resources
Greetings HAPSters! It is great to be getting ready for a fresh new semester of flippin’ fun times. This promises to be a special semester, because after five years of working as an adjunct at my school, I have been…
17- My First “Cooperative Quiz”
Today is EXAM DAY. My students had an External Brain exam this morning and will take their written and practical exams this afternoon. Their 20 question External Brain exam emphasized case-study like applications of the content, and students were allowed…
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 them how much “flippin’” work they did to prepare for class. To get a “3” (out of 5), they have to…
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 I will do in class tomorrow…in just 9 hours. I could probably benefit from using that 9 hours to sleep…but sleep…
14- The External Brain
As some of you probably know, I got a little bit fired up about the External Brain as presented by Jon Runyon (Go Ducks) at the annual conference in Vegas this year. I have incorporated the External Brain into my…
13- Clicker-ific
One of my biggest goals in my flipped class this semester was to improve the quality of the in-class activities that took place during “lecture”. This goal guided the workshops I attended at the annual conference in May, and I…
12- Does it Improve Student Learning?
One of the best things about HAPS (in my opinion) is the priority it places on TEACHING and LEARNING. I was a first-timer at the annual conference in May and I felt a powerful sense of community among a diverse…
11- Bursting Bubbles
The semester has started and I’m already sprinting full speed to keep up. My grand vision of having all my video lectures recorded before the first day of class (so I could spend more time focusing on improving the ACTIVITIES…