Wednesday, March 25, 2020

Still Moving Our Course to Remote| Episode 65


We lighten our loads and learn to be present with our students as host Kevin Patton continues sharing lessons learned from his own failures and successes in moving from on-campus to distance education. A supportive voice for a troubled time.

0:00:48 | The Emergency Continues
0:07:06 | Sponsored by AAA
0:07:46 | New Skills for New Situations
0:23:05 | Sponsored by HAPI
0:23:53 | Being Present
0:33:49 | Sponsored by HAPS
0:34:29 | Leaner Is Meaner
0:43:10 | More Tips
0:59:27 | Facing the Lion
1:04:17 | Staying Connected

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Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. (Parker Palmer)

The Emergency Continues

6.5 minutes

Another 19 tips in this episode, adding to two previous episodes on how to quickly move our on-campus course to remote instruction.

Episode 65

 

Sponsored by AAA

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New Skills for New Situations

15.5 minutes

If we are using web meeting software or webinars, this gives a great opportunity to develop professional skills for students to carry with them through to their careers.

20: Keep your lab coat handy.
21: Teach students web meeting/webinar skills

earbuds

 

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Being Present

10 minutes

Being present is always important, but especially now.

23: Be accessible
25: Think about faces. But not too much.
26: Help students navigate campus-wide changes and community resources

faces

 

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Leaner Is Meaner

8.5 minutes

Less is more is a start. But really, even less is even more. And asynchronous is better than synchronous.

27: Even less is even more
28: Forget seat time

reading a book

 

More Tips

16.5 minute

29: Look at stuff
30: Stay inside your LMS
31: Audio/video feedback
32: Snippet library
33: Wear your customer-service hat
34: Open an office
35: Resist Jedi mind tricks.
36: Build a team

playful and serious

 

Facing the Lion

5 minutes

37: Face the lion.
38: Cross disciplines
39: I am not alone.

lions

 

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Monday, March 16, 2020

Memory Palaces with Chase DiMarco | Episode 64


Host Kevin Patton chats with mnemonist (memory expert) Chase DiMarco, who helps medical students learn. DiMarco describes how to use memory palaces in learning human anatomy and physiology.

00:44 | Introducing Chase DiMarco
02:33 | Sponsored by AAA (Silverthorn toast)
03:53 | What Is a Memory Palace?
11:44 | Sponsored by HAPI
12:07 | Building a Memory Palace
22:53 | Sponsored by HAPS
23:16 | Helping our Students
27:51 | Staying Connected

 

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

 

Introducing Chase DiMarco

2 minutes

Chase DiMarco is memory expert (mnemonist), medical education entrepreneur, MBA, and MD-PhD candidate. He specializes in helping medical and health sciences students succeed in learning and remembering large amounts of information in a short time. Which is what these students need, right?

Chase DiMarco

 

Sponsored by AAA

1.5 minutes

A searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) at anatomy.org.

Searchable transcript

Captioned audiogram 

Don't forget—HAPS members get a deep discount on AAA membership!

A toast:

  • Congratulations 🥂 to Dee Silverthorn's induction as a Fellow of the American Association of Anatomy (FAAA)!
  • And to ALL the new members of the Fellows Circle!
  • my-ap.us/2T2BOjo

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What Is a Memory Palace?

8 minutes

A "memory palace" is a mnemonic device or technique in which a learner imagines a location such as a house or room and places concepts or terms to be remembered at specific locations within it. This helps a person remember a large group of things by remembering their location in the imagined location.

This technique is also called "method of loci"—and bunch of other synonyms that one would need a memory palace to remember.


Memory Palace video

 

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Building a Memory Palace

11 minutes

Memory palaces are one of the tools in the toolbox that we can offer our A&P students. This one takes Practice. Practice. Practice. —but can really pay off in increased retention and retrieval!

vastus lateralis muscle

 

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Kevin’s Unofficial Guide to the HAPS Annual Conference | 2019 Edition | Episode 42

LAST CALL! Now is a good time to submit your questions, comments, tips, & stories for the upcoming 2020 edition!

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Saturday, March 14, 2020

Quickly Moving to Remote Delivery—The Musical | Bonus Episode 64b


In this "emergency" bonus episode, host Kevin Patton outlines ways to quickly move our courses from on-campus venues to remote delivery during a public health event. And sing along with Greg Crowther to keep our spirits up!

00:42 | Let's Move!
01:50 | Support Our Sponsors
02:36 | Sing a Song. Sing It Loud.
11:54 | Sights and Sounds
18:18 | Sing It Strong
20:41 | Keeping It Real
26:11 | Stay Connected

 

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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. (Sally Ride)

Let's Move!

1 minute

We've been told to pack up and move our course home from campus to the nebulous and scary "remote." What to do?!

Bonus Episode 64b

 

Support Our Sponsors

1 minute

Want to continue free access to this podcast. Well, then maybe clicking a few links may be worth your while...

  • Human Anatomy & Physiology Instruction (HAPI)Online graduate program for holders of advanced degrees who want a comprehensive review of core principles of both anatomy and physiology, introduction to contemporary teaching practice, hands-on practice in course design and implementation, navigating the roles of college faculty, and collaboration with peers in building a solid portfolio in teaching human anatomy and physiology.

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  • American Association for Anatomy (AAA)

    • A searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) at anatomy.org.
    • Don't forget—HAPS members get a deep discount on AAA membership!

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Sing a Song. Sing It Loud.

9 minutes

The first 6 tips—out of one million, er... 19, total in this episode. Plus a sing-along. Really.

  • Tips
    • 1. Don't forget to breathe.
    • 2. Pretend you're going to that cancelled conference.
    • 3. Less is more.
    • 4. Ask for help.
    • 5. Involve the world.
    • 6. Involve students.
  • Don't forget to breathe! (blog post for students) my-ap.us/39TyfBZ
  • Making Mistakes Teaching Anatomy & Physiology | Episode 63 (it's okay—really!)
  • The Sodium Jeer about cells keeping sodium (Na+) out. Na, Na, Na... This can help students remember where sodium is and how it behaves in a variety of physiological processes. (Warning: ear bug)
    • faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/jeer.shtml
      • Includes guidance, study questions, lyrics, sound file, sheet music (with melody play-back)
      • Lyrics (let's all sing along, okay?):
        Na Na Na Na Na Na!
        Sodium can't get in!
      • Additional lyrics (when sodium channel open, produding a "funny" current)
        Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!
        Sodium CAN get in!
  • Fick's Law of Diffusion about the equation for calculating diffusion rates.
    • faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/fick.shtml
      • Includes guidance, lesson plan, study questions, lyrics, sound file, music video, sheet music (with melody play-back)
      • Lyrics (are you singing along?):
        Fick says how quick, A molecule will diffuse.
        Delta P times A times k, Over D is the law to use.Fick says how quick, A molecule will diffuse.
        Delta P times A times k, Over D is the law to use.(Fick) Pressure difference,
        (Fick) Surface area,
        (Fick) And the constant k
        Are multiplied together.
        (Fick) They're divided by
        (Fick) Diffusion barrier
        (Fick) To determine the exact rate of diffusion.
  • Used by permission. But these are meant to be shared. Thanks Greg Crowther!

 

Sights and Sounds

6.5 minute

The next seven tips...

  • Tips
    • 7. Remote is not always online.
    • 8. Do some video.
    • 9. Do some audio.
    • 10. Keep things brief.
    • 11. Be nimble.
    • 12. Teach by testing.
    • 13. Testing is not always teaching.
  • TechSmith is helping organizations and academic institutions who are preparing for prolonged absences and/or campus closures due to COVID-19. They are offering free access and expanded usage of tools that help enable educational continuity.  my-ap.us/3aNBB9M
  • Online Lecture Previews (my online seminar about my approach to online videos; can be adapted a number of ways)
  • Kevin Flaherty's amazing, stupendous collection of resources: my-ap.us/FlahertyResources
  • Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning (book on retrieval practice and other ideas by Pooja K. Agarwal & Patrice M. Bain) amzn.to/2O4ZPUe
  • Testing As a Teaching Strategy | Episode 2
  • Spaced Retrieval Practice | Episode 1
  • Testing as Teaching (my seminar on using formative testing as a learning process; can be adapted for emergency remote learning)

nimble cat

 

Sing it Strong

2.5 minutes

Another musical interlude. Yep, for singing along. And learning. After all, isn't that what musicals are for?

  • Greg Crowther's STEM songs website (you gotta see this) faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/
  • The Place Principle about how pitches are transduced at different places along the cochlea.
    • faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/place.shtml
    • Includes context, lesson plan, study questions, karaoke, sound file, sheet music, more!
    • Lyrics:
      Which pitch will make your hair cells twitch?
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      Which pitch will make your hair cells twitch?
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      When I talk to ya through your cochlea?
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      When I talk to ya through your cochlea?
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      From apex to base, each pitch has a place!
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      From apex to base, each pitch has a place!
      (Doo, doot, doo, doot.)
      When I talk to ya through your cochlea,
      You'll hear; you'll hear!
      When I talk to ya through your cochlea,
      You'll hear; you'll hear!
    • Used by permission, thanks to Greg Crowther.
  • Spinal Nerve Plexuses about which nerves contribute to which plexuses.

DJ setup

 

Keeping it Real

5.5 minutes

The next six tips. Real ones. About reality. Or not.

  • Tips
    • 14. Read the book.
    • 15. Just in case.
    • 16. Learning is art and art is learning.
    • 17. Simulate reality.
    • 18. Embrace reality.
    • 19. No side trips.
  •  READ and RAID your textbook! (blog post for students about how to effectively use their textbook) my-ap.us/ReadRaid
  • The Case for Case Studies | Episode 52

Episode 52

 

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Monday, March 9, 2020

Getting Ready for Memory Palaces with Chase DiMarco | Bonus Episode 64


Kevin Patton confesses to a mistaken early release of Preview Episode 64, offering this brief "bonus" to assure listeners that the full episode is coming. And while we're at it, let's not forget about sending in your HAPS Conference stories. Join the TAA writing network. And that survey. Don't forget the survey!
00:20 | Mistake!
02:30 | HAPS Conference Guide
03:21 | Survey Says...
04:15 | Word Dissection
10:15 | TAA Writing Network
10:13 | Survey Says...
14:08 | Sponsors
14:26 | Staying Connected

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Mistake!

2 minutes
Yikes, because of a scheduling error, Preview Episode 64 was released a week early. So here's special post preview episode to bridge the gap, so you won't think you missed an episode!

HAPS Conference Guide

1 minute
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Survey Says...

0.5 minute
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Word Dissection

6 minutes
COVID-19—what does it mean and where did it come from? And who cares, anyway?

Clarification:

  • COVID-19 is the shortened name of the illness. 
    • Coronavirus Disease 2019 is the full name of the illness.
  • SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus that causes it. 
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Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA)

4 minutes
TAA is a professional development organization that helps authors of instructional materials (including textbooks) and of academic journals and books to become more effective writers. Help with legal issues (e.g., contracts, permissions, copyright), time management, writing skills, coaching, and many other needs are found within a variety of powerful resources such as articles, books, webinars, seminars, and conferences.
TAA

Sponsors

0.5 minute
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Online graduate program for holders of advanced degrees who want a comprehensive review of core principles of both anatomy and physiology, introduction to contemporary teaching practice, hands-on practice in course design and implementation, navigating the roles of college faculty, and collaboration with peers in building a solid portfolio in teaching human anatomy and physiology.
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American Association for Anatomy (AAA)
  • A searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) at anatomy.org.
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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Episode 64 Intro | TAPP Radio Preview


 

A brief preview of the upcoming full episode, featuring upcoming topics—a chat with Chase DiMarco—plus word dissections, a book club recommendation, and more!

00:19 | Topics
01:19 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program
01:46 | Word Dissection
06:45 | Sponsored by HAPS
07:06 | Book Club
10:13 | Survey Says...
10:42 | Sponsored by AAA
11:02 | Staying Connected

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Upcoming Topics

1 minute

In the full episode, I'll chat with mnemonist, author, and podcaster Chase DiMarco about a powerful memory technique called a "memory palace." 

Episode 64

 

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Word Dissection

5 minutes

  • mnemonic (again!)
  • mnemonist
  • loci (and locus) not Loki

mind

 

Sponsored by HAPS

0.5 minute

The Human Anatomy & Physiology Society (HAPS) is a sponsor of this podcast.  You can help appreciate their support by clicking the link below and checking out the many resources and benefits found there. Don't forget the early-bird discount for the HAPS Annual Conference expires on February 21, 2020—the same deadline for submitting workshops and posters.

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Book Club

3 minutes

  • Read This Before Medical School: How to Study Smarter and Live Better While Excelling in Class and on your USMLE or COMLEX Board Exams
  • For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub
  • Special opportunity
    • Contribute YOUR book recommendation for A&P teachers!
      • Be sure include your reasons for recommending it
    • Any contribution used will receive a $25 gift certificate
    • The best contribution is one that you have recorded in your own voice (or in a voicemail at 1-833-LION-DEN)
  • For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub

Read This Before Medical School

 

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Sponsored by AAA

0.5 minutes

  • A searchable transcript for this episode, as well as the captioned audiogram of this episode, are sponsored by the American Association for Anatomy (AAA) at anatomy.org.
  • Don't forget—HAPS members get a deep discount on AAA membership!

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