Welcome to the Chuck Shaffer Blog. For openers, it is intended to convey information to my students at Florida Keys Community College and to teach me this new form of communication; later on, who knows. I look forward to talking with anyone who has any input on the subjects that come up here. Some of you have asked about my associate at FKCC, Professor Fred, so I have included a picture of him on the left. Fred is a Jack Russell terrier who received his undergraduate training at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, Marathon, Florida; with a major in Biting. His masters is in Barking and he is working on his Doctorate in Character Assessment so he can better judge who to bark at and who to bite.


A and P I
This week and for the next three weeks we will be focusing on tissue structure and recognizing the various tissues of the human body from microscope slides. This unit will end in a lab practical exam no sooner than week VII. The Histology lab practical will be held in class and consist of me projecting tissue slides and you identifying the tissue type bein projected.

Prior to this time, you will be responsible for reading Chapters 4 and 5 in you text and completing lab exercises 1-5 for me to examine at the time of the lab practical

A and P II
This week Y'all will be covering chapter 11-13 and my lecture will be on brain development and the anatomy and function of the adult human brain. I will carry this theme over into the laboratory with slides and discussion on brain structure and function.

Microbiology
This week we will be working on bacterial structure and staining and morphological recognition of a variety of different bacterial cell shapes. We will learn how to prepare dry mounts of bacteria, stain them and find the bacteria using the oil immersion lens of your microscope.

Biology 1
We will be doing a preliminary examination in class of your pH data and start to plot this on a map of the Keys. In lecture we will be examining heredity at the level of chromosomes (cytogenetics) as well as observing human diseases caused by chromosomal abnormalities.

If you have any questions: my phone is 305-304-5674 my e-mail address is drcshaffer@gmail.com

Have a good week and don't forget to come back to this post for Week VI