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What does the new blood test for concussion measure? Why red pens are not ideal for grading and feedback. Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds if you use short video presentations.

New blood test for concussion. Why red pens are not ideal for grading and feedback. Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds.

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(1:04) The FDA recently approved a new blood test for concussions. How is the test used and what does it tell us?

• FDA authorizes marketing of first blood test to aid in the evaluation of concussion in adults
• Concussions Can Be Detected With New Blood Test Approved by F.D.A.
• GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic protein
• UCH-L1 | ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1
• Concussions (Health and Medical Issues Today)

(11:10) It's a small thing, for sure, but the color pen we use for grading student work can have an impact on the tone of communication in a class.

• No Red Pens! (Kevin's blog post on this topic; with links to additional information)
• Green Felt Tip Pens
• Green Gel Pens

(13:50) Subscribing helps you and others stay up to date with the world of A&P teaching! And it helps other teachers find this podcast when they search for it.

• How to subscribe to this podcast.

(14:35) Kevin flipped his first A&P course in 2006, a year before the term flipped learning was first coined by Bergmann and Sams. In this segment, he discusses how his case study may help you decide how to flip (or half flip) your own A&P course.

• Sextuple Backflip !!! (a video showing a REAL circus flip)
• Online Lectures and Previews (brief blog post on this case study)
• Online Lecture Previews (Kevin's online seminar on how he flipped his course, including a brief walk-through of the mechanics of producing an online lecture )
• Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement

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What does the new blood test for concussion measure? Why red pens are not ideal for grading and feedback. Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds if you use short video presentations.

New blood test for concussion.
Why red pens are not ideal for grading and feedback.
Flipped learning isn't as hard as it sounds.

If you cannot see or activate the audio player click here.

(1:04) The FDA recently approved a new blood test for concussions. How is the test used and what does it tell us? 

• FDA authorizes marketing of first blood test to aid in the evaluation of concussion in adults
• Concussions Can Be Detected With New Blood Test Approved by F.D.A.
• GFAP | glial fibrillary acidic protein
• UCH-L1 | ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1
• Concussions (Health and Medical Issues Today)

(11:10) It’s a small thing, for sure, but the color pen we use for grading student work can have an impact on the tone of communication in a class.

• No Red Pens! (Kevin’s blog post on this topic; with links to additional information)
• Green Felt Tip Pens
• Green Gel Pens

(13:50) Subscribing helps you and others stay up to date with the world of A&P teaching! And it helps other teachers find this podcast when they search for it.

• How to subscribe to this podcast.

(14:35) Kevin flipped his first A&P course in 2006, a year before the term flipped learning was first coined by Bergmann and Sams. In this segment, he discusses how his case study may help you decide how to flip (or half flip) your own A&P course.

• Sextuple Backflip !!! (a video showing a REAL circus flip)
• Online Lectures and Previews (brief blog post on this case study)
• Online Lecture Previews (Kevin’s online seminar on how he flipped his course, including a brief walk-through of the mechanics of producing an online lecture )
• Flipped Learning: Gateway to Student Engagement

If the hyperlinks above are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page.

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• Transcript available at the script page.
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Blood doping stories are effective in helping student students apply and integrate diverse concepts in anatomy and physiology. Concept mapping helps students learn and helps teachers assess learning, plus diagnose misconceptions and other concerns.

Use concept mapping for student learning and assessment. Blood doping is a perennial news topic that helps apply central concepts of A&P.

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(0:48) Blood doping stories related to the 2018 Winter Olympics (or in any context) are effective in helping student students apply and integrate diverse concepts in anatomy and physiology

• Olympic athletes are cheating more often than you think (article concerning current issues in doping)
• Doping topics from The A&P Professor blog (various concepts that apply doping in A&P courses)
• World Doping Agency | WADA (website with various resources, including their official prohibited list)
• Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era (book)
• Tainted Blood: The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympic Blood Doping Scandal (book)
• Doping, Performance-Enhancing Drugs, and Hormones in Sport: Mechanisms of Action and Methods of Detection | Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry (A great acquisition suggestion for your institution's library)

(6:32) The featured topic is concept mapping and its uses in helps students learn and helping instructors assess learning and diagnose misconceptions and other learning concerns.

• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
• Teaching Nursing Using Concept Maps
• Deep Active Learning: Toward Greater Depth in University Education
• Topics in concept mapping for students from The A&P Student blog
• Concept Maps | A How-To for A&P Students (link from your course website or syllabus)

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Blood doping stories are effective in helping student students apply and integrate diverse concepts in anatomy and physiology. Concept mapping helps students learn and helps teachers assess learning, plus diagnose misconceptions and other concerns.

Use concept mapping for student learning and assessment.
Blood doping is a perennial news topic that helps apply central concepts of A&P.

If you cannot see the audio player click here.

(0:48) Blood doping stories related to the 2018 Winter Olympics (or in any context) are effective in helping student students apply and integrate diverse concepts in anatomy and physiology

• Olympic athletes are cheating more often than you think (article concerning current issues in doping)
• Doping topics from The A&P Professor blog (various concepts that apply doping in A&P courses)
• World Doping Agency | WADA (website with various resources, including their official prohibited list)
• Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, and the Quest to End Baseball’s Steroid Era (book)
• Tainted Blood: The Untold Story of the 1984 Olympic Blood Doping Scandal (book)
• Doping, Performance-Enhancing Drugs, and Hormones in Sport: Mechanisms of Action and Methods of Detection | Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry (A great acquisition suggestion for your institution’s library)

(6:32) The featured topic is concept mapping and its uses in helps students learn and helping instructors assess learning and diagnose misconceptions and other learning concerns. 

• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
• Teaching Nursing Using Concept Maps
• Deep Active Learning: Toward Greater Depth in University Education
• Topics in concept mapping for students from The A&P Student blog
• Concept Maps | A How-To for A&P Students (link from your course website or syllabus)

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Cumulative testing enhances long-term learning, preparing students for final exams, later courses, and professional careers. The genetic code of others also influences our biological traits. Screencasts help students with course tools in this digital age.

Kevin shares his experience of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning. Use video walk-throughs to help students navigate your digital course platforms. Sometimes other people's genes influence an individual's biological traits.

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(0:50) Things will get a lot more interesting if listeners start calling in with questions, comments, teaching tips, programming suggestions, updates, ...or anything else on your mind!

• Call 1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-564-6336)
• [email protected]

(2:20) A recent article in Science explores the idea the genomes of parents and others can affect traits—not just the genes within the individual's genome. This concept of "genetic nurture" expands the notion of the measurable biological influences of genes.

• You Are Shaped by the Genes You Inherit. And Maybe by Those You Don't. (Carl Zimmer's article summarizing recent research.)
• The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes (Research article from Science)

(7:34) You can help your colleagues and others find episodes of this podcast by influencing the search algorithms that guide the process. How? By subscribing to The A&P Professor podcast in iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Even better, consider giving a rating and leaving a brief review. Unless you really hate my podcast, in which case, please click here. Fans, please click on one (or all of these):

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(8:14) In this age of digital teaching and learning, we must be able to help our students navigate their digital platforms: learning management systems, adaptive learning platforms, college/department/course websites, and more. Brief narrated video walkthroughs (screencasts) are simple and quick ways to provide clear guidance to individuals and whole classes.

• Short Video Walk-Throughs Help Your Students (brief blog post clarifies the point of this segment, providing links to tools you can use and an example of how Kevin uses it in his courses).
• Snagit screen capture software

(13:13) In the featured segment, Kevin shares his case story of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning in his course. Using an easy method of adding a few questions from prior tests to each test and exam, Kevin was able to better prepare his students for the comprehensive final exam. And hopefully carry the essential concepts of A&P forward into future courses and careers.

• Cumulative Testing Enhances Learning (Kevin's blog post summarizing cumulative testing, including links to other resources).
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (one of Kevin's favorite books on teaching, it further explains the value of cumulative testing)
• Why Spaced Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Teaching and Learning Tool (a prior episode covering a related topic)
• Testing as a Teaching Strategy: Students Learn From Tests (a prior episode covering a related topic)

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Transcript available at the script page.

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Cumulative testing enhances long-term learning, preparing students for final exams, later courses, and professional careers. The genetic code of others also influences our biological traits. Screencasts help students with course tools in this digital age.

Kevin shares his experience of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning.
Use video walk-throughs to help students navigate your digital course platforms.
Sometimes other people's genes influence an individual's biological traits.

If you can't see the audio player, click here.

(0:50) Things will get a lot more interesting if listeners start calling in with questions, comments, teaching tips, programming suggestions, updates, ...or anything else on your mind!

• Call 1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-564-6336)
• [email protected]

(2:20) A recent article in Science explores the idea the genomes of parents and others can affect traits—not just the genes within the individual's genome. This concept of "genetic nurture" expands the notion of the measurable biological influences of genes.

• You Are Shaped by the Genes You Inherit. And Maybe by Those You Don’t. (Carl Zimmer's article summarizing recent research.)
• The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes (Research article from Science)

(7:34) You can help your colleagues and others find episodes of this podcast by influencing the search algorithms that guide the process. How? By subscribing to The A&P Professor podcast in iTunes or your favorite podcast app. Even better, consider giving a rating and leaving a brief review. Unless you really hate my podcast, in which case, please click here. Fans, please click on one (or all of these):

• Apple Podcasts
• iTunes
• Google Play
• Stitcher
• Spotify
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• TuneIn

(8:14) In this age of digital teaching and learning, we must be able to help our students navigate their digital platforms: learning  management systems, adaptive learning platforms, college/department/course websites, and more. Brief narrated video walkthroughs (screencasts) are simple and quick ways to provide clear guidance to individuals and whole classes.

• Short Video Walk-Throughs Help Your Students (brief blog post clarifies the point of this segment, providing links to tools you can use and an example of how Kevin uses it in his courses).
• Snagit screen capture software

(13:13) In the featured segment, Kevin shares his case story of using cumulative testing to strengthen long-term learning in his course. Using an easy method of adding a few questions from prior tests to each test and exam, Kevin was able to better prepare his students for the comprehensive final exam. And hopefully carry the essential concepts of A&P forward into future courses and careers.

• Cumulative Testing Enhances Learning (Kevin's blog post summarizing cumulative testing, including links to other resources).
• Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (one of Kevin's favorite books on teaching, it further explains the value of cumulative testing)
• Why Spaced Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Teaching and Learning Tool (a prior episode covering a related topic)
• Testing as a Teaching Strategy: Students Learn From Tests (a prior episode covering a related topic)

More details at the episode page.

Transcript available at the script page.

If the hyperlinks here are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page.

• Listen to any episode on your Alexa device.
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How many proteins are there in a cell? Can a sneeze rupture the throat? The Anatomical Society publishes a curated list of online resources. The featured topic is how pre-tests can boost learning by students.

Pre-testing is not just for assessment—it helps learning, too. A weird sneeze injury. The Anatomical Society's list of online resources. How many proteins are there in a cell?

A recent analysis suggests that a reasonable average number of proteins in a cell is 42 million. How might we incorporate that bit of trivia in our A&P courses? (0:41)

• Scientists Counted All The Protein Molecules in a Cell And The Answer Really Is 42
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The UK's Anatomical Society has put together a list of online resources under the auspices of their Education Committee (4:40)

• Online Resources recommended by the Anatomical Society

Can the explosive power of a sneeze cause injury? You bet. Here's a recently reported case of a rupture of the pharynx. Yikes. (6:11)

• Holding a sneeze can be a literal pain in the neck (includes a video)
• Snap, crackle, and pop: when sneezing leads to crackling in the neck

Pre-Testing isn't just for measuring prior competence before new learning starts. By itself, regardless of its use in course assessment, it's a powerful learning tool. Listen to Kevin's experience with pre-testing in his A&P courses. (10:28)

• Pre-Tests as Student Success Tools (more on Kevin's case study; has links to other resources)
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (a great book that includes some info on using pre-tests as a learning strategy)

More details at the episode page.

Transcript available at the script page.

If the hyperlinks above are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page.

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How many proteins are there in a cell? Can a sneeze rupture the throat? The Anatomical Society publishes a curated list of online resources. The featured topic is how pre-tests can boost learning by students.

Pre-testing is not just for assessment—it helps learning, too.
A weird sneeze injury.
The Anatomical Society's list of online resources.
How many proteins are there in a cell?

A recent analysis suggests that a reasonable average number of proteins in a cell is 42 million. How might we incorporate that bit of trivia in our A&P courses? (0:41)

• Scientists Counted All The Protein Molecules in a Cell And The Answer Really Is 42
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The UK's Anatomical Society has put together a list of online resources under the auspices of their Education Committee (4:40)

• Online Resources recommended by the Anatomical Society

Can the explosive power of a sneeze cause injury? You bet. Here's a recently reported case of a rupture of the pharynx. Yikes. (6:11)

• Holding a sneeze can be a literal pain in the neck (includes a video)
• Snap, crackle, and pop: when sneezing leads to crackling in the neck

Pre-Testing isn't just for measuring prior competence before new learning starts. By itself, regardless of its use in course assessment, it's a powerful learning tool. Listen to Kevin's experience with pre-testing in his A&P courses. (10:28)

• Pre-Tests as Student Success Tools (more on Kevin's case study; has links to other resources)
• Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning (a great book that includes some info on using pre-tests as a learning strategy)

More details at the episode page.

Transcript available at the script page.

If the hyperlinks above are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page.

• Listen to any episode on your Alexa device.
• Join The A&P Professor social network:
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Host Kevin Patton invites listeners to the 2018 Annual HAPS Conference, then summarizes a few key points from the new 2017 blood pressure guidelines, giving practical tips for the A&P course. The featured topic is how online tests can be used for retrieval practice, thus providing a powerful learning experience.

Testing is not just for assessment—tests can be a primary way to learn. What's in the new blood pressure guidelines? Going to the annual HAPS conference?

I encourage all anatomy and/or physiology instructors to attend the 2018 Annual Conference of the Human Anatomy and Physiology in Columbus OH. (0:50)

• HAPS 2018 Annual Conference

I summarize a few key points from the new 2017 guidelines on hypertension and their impact on how we talk about blood pressure in our A&P course. (3:45)

• Got High Blood Pressure Covered? The 2017 Hypertension Guidelines.
  • What we need to know for teaching A&P.
  • Link to the full report. And many more related links.
  • Free slide to use in your course.
  • Brief video interview of report authors, giving pithy highlights.

A previous topic, spaced retrieval practice (Episode 1), is the basis for a new discussion of Kevin's experience using online tests to provide students with regular and required spaced retrieval practice. (10:17)

• Testing as a Learning Tool
• Testing as Teaching
• Testing as a Learning Tool | Update
• Online Seminar: Testing as Teaching

More details at the episode page.

Transcript available at the script page.

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Host Kevin Patton invites listeners to the 2018 Annual HAPS Conference, then summarizes a few key points from the new 2017 blood pressure guidelines, giving practical tips for the A&P course. The featured topic is how online tests can be used for retrieval practice, thus providing a powerful learning experience.

Testing is not just for assessment—tests can be a primary way to learn.
What's in the new blood pressure guidelines?
Going to the annual HAPS conference?

I encourage all anatomy and/or physiology instructors to attend the 2018 Annual Conference of the Human Anatomy and Physiology in Columbus OH. (0:50)

• HAPS 2018 Annual Conference

I summarize a few key points from the new 2017 guidelines on hypertension and their impact on how we talk about blood pressure in our A&P course. (3:45)

• Got High Blood Pressure Covered? The 2017 Hypertension Guidelines.
  • What we need to know for teaching A&P.
  • Link to the full report. And many more related links.
  • Free slide to use in your course.
  • Brief video interview of report authors, giving pithy highlights.

A previous topic, spaced retrieval practice (Episode 1), is the basis for a new discussion of Kevin's experience using online tests to provide students with regular and required spaced retrieval practice. (10:17)

• Testing as a Learning Tool
• Testing as Teaching
• Testing as a Learning Tool | Update
• Online Seminar: Testing as Teaching

More details at the episode page.

Transcript available at the script page.

If the hyperlinks above are not active, go to TAPPradio.org to find the episode page.

• Listen to any episode on your Alexa device.
• Join The A&P Professor social network:
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