Okay, the title is a bit misleading because a some of the five features you may have missed are new, so it may just be too early to have noticed them yet. But there are some that have been around a while and you may not have given them much thought until now.
- Top menu bar.
I recently added a menu bar to the top of the blog page, just under the blog description. You can link to the Home Page, Site Map, Subscription and various off-blog resources. Explore each one to see if it's useful to you. - Site Map.
This new feature is a table of contents that lists blog posts in alphabetical lists by topic. It's pretty big because I've been doing this blog for many years, and some posts are listed under more than one topic. But if you are "into" the teaching of A&P, this might be a fun treasure hunt to find things you may have missed—or have simply forgotten about. - Email Newsletter.
The email newsletter for this blog, powered by Feedblitz, is a way to subscribe to this blog and be notified by email each time a new article is posted in blog. It's free and you can safely unsubscribe at any time. Then re-subscribe later when you find that you missed getting updates! You may not realize that by subscribing, you also get additional content. For example, once a month, I send out a Throwback Thursday newsletter reprising a popular article from the past that remain relevant. I occasionally send out other "extra issues" that do not appear in the blog itself. - Social Media.
As more and more of you join the rest of the world on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media networks, you may want to follow The A&P Professor there, too. As with the email newsletters, my Twitter and Facebook followers get additional content not found on the blog or other channels. You can even follow my YouTube channel, where I post videos with study tips for A&P that you can share with your students. - Family of Blogs and Websites.
I have other blogs that are focused on particular topics that overlap your interest in teaching A&P. For example, The A&P Student blog is directed at, er, A&P students. Teachers who follow that blog pick up ideas for sharing with students who are having difficulty in your class, or link to blog posts in their course pages or syllabus. My o-log-y blog relates specifically to the terminology of human science and medicine. There, you may find tips for helping your students learn the language of A&P or you may find information about some of the tricky aspects of terminology that you may not already know. Check out each one to see if any of them interest you.
Oh, and don't forget the separate website theAPprofessor.org, where you can find my free image library, sign up to get free bookmarks for your students, participate in teaching seminars, and gain access to my free library of teaching slides.
Play around the edges of this blog and see what other helpful little tools you may have missed.
