Welcome

Welcome

   I am Drew Jones.  Hope I can help.  In my opinion, the best way to go through this course (and probably all others) is to find a resource(s) that works for you.  Most histology books cover the same material.  What makes them different is the quality of the writing.  In addition, any book or atlas that gives a variety views of the same cell or tissue is an amazing resource.  When everyone is working on a slide set, the more we share and can get those different views, the more we will all be comfortable identifying tissues and getting at some of the more complex ideas.

  What I find cool about this class (as a biologist, I often find that the word 'cool' is used loosely) is that we are back in kindergarten.  We need to know shapes, colors, and have an active imagination.  When we prep tissue, fix and stain tissue, and get it under a scope, we need to realize that what we see is out of context.  We are not thin 2-D sections of color in real life, but we gotta see.  As such, to be able to extrapolate from what we see back to the 3-D organism (imagination) is an important aspect of this class.

Here are a few websites that I love.

http://www.lab.anhb.uwa.edu.au/mb140/         ***The best with quizzes

http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/MedEd/Histo/frames/histo_frames.html   ** not bad

http://www.med.uc.edu/medware2/microanatomy/index.htm   *has small pics...meh

http://www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/cell/   ***Amazing


Get at me
atj@uakron.edu   (not gozips)
atjst50@gmail.com