6- Case Studies
After spending nearly a year recording video lectures for my flipped classes, I have finally arrived at a semester in which MOST of the lectures have been recorded (for better or worse) and I am able to focus my time…
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5- The Dead Rats: Success!
In contrast to my first attempt with Dead Rat fun times a year ago, Endocrine Rats lab activity last week was very popular with my students. I ended up recording a brief lecture to help guide them through the process…
HAPS Leadership (#16): HAPS-Institute
Are you looking for graduate credit in the field of Anatomy & Physiology? Are you looking to share your expertise on a specific A&P-related topic with peers who are as passionate as you about the subject matter? If the answer…
4- APS Archive Activity: The Dead Rats
I wonder how many Physiology students dropped my class this semester when they saw the “Dead Rats” activity on the course schedule. There certainly have been many who tentatively ask me about that particular activity. After briefly traumatizing them with…
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…
HAPS Leadership (#13): Central Regional Director
“Baltimore…somewhere in the 90s. That was my first HAPS conference. Since then, I’ve attended most of the annual conferences, served on a few committees, contributed articles to the HAPS-EDucator, and worked on the effort to archive past issues of the…
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 when I decided to flip my courses. Without that warning, I would have been devastated by the response after my first…
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…
High Hopes for the Semester, Part 4
Now, that was unexpected. One of my “high maintenance” students – mentioned in the last blog installment – has been continuing to be an issue for me. Her exam scores have averaged 30%. She always has an excuse. “When you…
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…