9- Blood Pressure
It is late. We lost an hour this morning, which means my alarm clock is going to be particularly vile when it cheerfully erupts in about 6 hours. And I can’t go to bed quite yet, because I am still…
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7- Active Learning Makes Me Happy
Maybe you are starting to get a sense of this, but I like it when my students are happy. I often use their satisfaction as evidence that a technique or lesson is “successful.” I understand that happiness may or may…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…