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St. Kevin pages are ready

The St. Kevin pages have now been moved to the main Lion Den site from the old legacy site. . . albeit a bit too late for the big St. Kevin's Day celebration on June 3. Well, at least I'll be ready for next year's big party, eh?

St. Kevin's Day

Amazing Coincidences

Hymn of St. Kevin

Reproductive Systems outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for the Reproductive Systems has been formatted and updated and is reasonably ready to be used. Read More!

Urinary outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for the Urinary System (including fluid/electrolyte balance and acid/base balance) is now updated and formatted and ready for use at
http://lionden.com/ap2out-urin.htm Read More!

Muscle names added to Study Tools and Tips

Another Study Tips & Tools page has been added to help A&P students use muscle names as a way to find and learn their muscles.

The new page Muscle Names includes videos that walk the reader through the basic concept of muscle naming. This page also includes downloadable, printable tables to aid in learning major muscle names and their translations (plus pronunciation of muscle names).

http://lionden.com/tips-lab-anatomy-muscle-names.htm

Several linked pages (and the top nav bar on all pages) have been updated to reflect this addition. Read More!

Digestive System outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for the Digestive System has been formatted, updated, baked, and sliced . . . ready for your enjoyment! Read More!

Lion Tracks breadcrumbs . . . the saga begins

Ok, finally . . . I'm starting to leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Well, that's what ORDINARY webmasters call this navigation tools that shows where a page is in the heirarchy of organization within a website. In the Lion Den, however, it's no wonder that this navigation tool is instead called Lion Tracks.

Found at the top of all pages at lionden.com, the Lion Tracks tool is not yet complete on all pages. I've started with the A&P 2 pages . . . from there, I'll finish the remaining A&P pages . . . then eventually the whole site. Read More!

Respiratory outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for the Respiratory System is now formatted and updated. Of course . . . as always . . . expect the occasional additional tweaks. Read More!

Lymphatic-Immunity Learning Outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for the Lymphatic and Immune Systems is now formatted, updated, shined, and polished . . . and ready for your reading enjoyment! Read More!

Navigation menu improved

The top menu bar in all pages has been updated to better navigate to the Review Outlines for the course Foundations in Science (BIO 095). The label "Learning Outline" was changed to "Review Outline" to better reflect the term used in BIO 095. Read More!

Cardiovascular outline formatted and updated

I just posted the formatted and updated version of the Learning Outline for the Cardiovascular System. Enjoy! Read More!

Blood outline updated

The A&P 2 Learning Outline for Blood is now fully formatted and updated . . . and ready to roll! Read More!

A&P 2 course info updated

The syllabus, schedule, and related pages related to BIO 241 (A&P 2) have been updated for Spring 2010.
Learning Outlines are still unformatted and updated at LionDen.com (but the formatted previous versions can still be accessed at LionDen.info). Read More!

Student Success info added

I recently added some brief Student Success strategies at lionden.com/APsuccess.htm including links to overviews of my "refresher course" and my "shortcut course" for A&P.

I also updated the list of links for all A&P pages (it's still not complete, but closer to it). Read More!

Clarified cholesterol/steroid hormone connection

In the chemistry outlines for both A&P 1 and Foundations in Science, the role of cholesterol as the molecule from which the steroid hormones are derived (converted) has been clarified. Read More!

AP 1 syllabus updated

I added a clarifying table to show how Participation Points in BIO 240 are awarded. They are awarded for specific ranges of Clicker Points accumulated. Read More!

Endocrine outline now live

The formatted and fully updated Learning Outline for the Endocrine System (A&P 1) is now available. Read More!

Nervous System Part 2 now live

The Learning Outline for Nervous System - Part 2 is now formatted, updated and "ready to roll."

Next up: Endocrine System Read More!

Free Parking

A tab for Free Parking was added to the top menu under A&P 1 Lecture and A&P 2 Lecture. This item previously appeared only under the WebCT help portion of the top menu under "Missed test deadline." Read More!

Nervous System Part 1 live

Today I uploaded the complete, formatted version of the Nervous System Part 1 outline for A&P 1.

Other updates this weekend:

Nervous System Overview formatted and updated
WebCT 18 updated today, further clarifying gradebook issues
Blog newsfeed added to Hot Tips drop-down box in the right sidebar of all pages

The migration continues!

The conversion of hte Lion Den website from Frontpage format to Dreamweaver has been taking WAY longer than planned. But the migration continues . . .

PLEASE change the URL in the address bar from "lionden.COM" to "lionden.INFO" if you land on a page that has not yet been migrated. This will take you to the old "legacy" site and the content you are looking for will be there. Read More!

Welcome!

After more than 10 years of lionden.com, I guess it's time to have a blog, eh?

The intent of this blog is to keep users of the Lion Den website up to date on the status of the website, new postings, changes, the story behind the story, and general silliness. Read More!