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As we write, it is snowing here in Colorado. As Winter comes on strong, we hunker down and get to work…and have some news for you!
We have a new website that’s up and running (except for the Shopping Cart, still under construction).
And: samples of our website are on YouTube! Just go to YouTube, type in “Visual Histology” in their search engine, and you’re there.
On our website, you can order (by phone, fax, or email) our popular Visual Histology DVD series, our Classic Histology PowerPoint Series, our Institutional Site License for Streaming Videos, and our Visual Histology Text-Atlas e-book. That way, you can order the all the materials you’ll need to support teaching a basic course in histology (or cell and tissue biology) and — if you call — you’ll get to talk to one of us! A live human. Fancy that.
In addition, we will continue to offer our free online text-atlas. All 285 pages of it! With an interactive glossary, as well. We’ve put our Visual Histology Text-Atlas by Moran & Rowley out there as an open source to make learning histology as straightforward and enjoyable as possible. Our philosophy always has been, and is, this: Anything is easy once you understand it.
We’ve have created all of our teaching and learning materials to work together as an integrated system in a synergistic way. They complement each other. The chapters in the Text-Atlas, the DVDs in the 26-DVD series, and the programs in the Power Point series present the same subjects in the same order. So, as a teacher, when you give a lecture on Epithelia, you can ask the students to watch the half-hour DVD entitled “Epithelial Tissue:” you can have them read that same chapter in the Visual Histology Text-Atlas; and you can use the Power Point program, “Epithelial Tissue,” to illustrate your lecture on that subject.
Be in touch. And let us know how you’re doing.
All the best,
Dave Moran, Carter Rowley, Datch Baudisch, and Chuck Wilson. And Pepito, the Office Cat.
Well, it’s back to school time! For those of you who are teaching in the field of Histology, we want to wish you the best of luck. Please contact us if you have any questions about our multimedia teaching tools — we’re here to help you!
For those of you who are students, we want to wish you a productive and successful year, and would like to offer a couple of “helpful household hints” on how best to learn on histology and do really well on your exams…
Please know this: Although learning Histology may appear difficult and, at times, daunting, fear not! When presented properly, it really is a straightforward subject. Mastery of Histology is based mainly on three elements: 1) Pattern recognition; 2) A new vocabulary; and 3) Relating specific structures to the functions they perform.
Different cells and tissues present visual images which, once seen and named, are really very easily remembered. It’s like remembering the identity of a new person you meet. Learning the new vocabulary can be fun when you look at the roots of the words — usually Greek or Latin derivatives — that describe specific cells and tissues. When you do this, you will notice that there’s a lot of redundancy in the parts of the histological terms that are used in different combinations. Once you learn the word roots, understanding the meaning of the term is really easy — especially when you connect the new term with the new visual image of the structure you’re studying.
And then — when you know what a certain cell or tissue looks like, and know its name, learning what physiological functions it performs really bends the nail over. When you’ve connected these three dots, you’ve got it! And, you won’t have to memorize as much material. We humans are very good at learning by association…and, when you do that in your studies of Histology, it comes very fast.
Let us know what and how you’re doing!
Best wishes,
David T. Moran, Ph.D.
J. Carter Rowley III, B.S.
Authors, the Visual Histology DVD Series, the Classic Histology Power Point Series, and the interactive e-book, “Visual Histology (on CD)
Hi — I’m Dave Moran, co-author of the Visual Histology educational materials. Here at VisualHistology.com, we all notice a definite trend in education — a shift from traditional teaching in the classroom (which we’re used to) to “Self-Directed Learning” in which students use multimedia teaching aids for self-study. It seems there are several reasons for the shift: 1) Reduction in the number of Faculty available to teach Students by “traditional” methods; and 2) Technological improvements which allow students to view materials in multi-media learning resource centers and/or their own computers.We’re going to have some lively discussions on this topic. If you’ve got any thoughts you’d like to pass along, please post them on our blog here at www.visualhistology.com! See you in The Blogosphere,Dr. Dave Moran
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