 Alright, let's talk about the materials that you'll need for physio this semester. First of all, have pretty strong feelings about textbook costs. And as such, I've been on the hunt for a free and open textbook for quite a long time, and I'm finally making the plunge with all my classes, anatomy, physio, and general bio. We will be fully in the open stacks textbooks, which are free and open. So the official textbook in the course is the Open Stacks Anatomy and Physiology textbook. You can get it online for free, and there's a link in Canvas that will take you there. Some version of it I think will be available in our bookstore, a hard copy, but if you can't get a hard copy in our bookstore and you really want a hard copy, which is totally legit, you can get it off Amazon for about $50, and that's all in color, which is nice. If you don't want that one, or don't want to spend $50, but really need a hard copy, any physio text is great. I, in the past, have required the Silverthorn text, and I love it, and there's actually about 20 copies of the textbook in the library for semester checkout. You can totally borrow that textbook over there. It's a fantastic textbook. There's, as far as I'm concerned, your golden either way. I've had students who used the Silverthorn text do very well in the course, students who used the Open Stacks text last semester did phenomenal in the course as well. So I feel completely comfortable with either textbook or whatever that you want. If you want to talk about that further, I'm totally cool with that. Additionally, any physio text, it doesn't have to be the Silverthorn text. There's all sorts of fantastic books out there, and so if you want to check anyone that you have, I'm fine with that as well. Well, I'm flexible about the required textbook. That said, you need a textbook, and you need a textbook because I speak physio from inside my own brain, and sometimes it's helpful to go back to another resource and read it from a different perspective. As of right now, there won't be official reading assignments in the class. If you choose, you have to do what's best for you. What I found for many students last semester is that they watched the video lectures, they came to class, they read the textbook in some order, but they actually read the chapters of the textbook because it was helpful for them to read it from different perspectives. I'm a huge fan. I'm a huge fan. You might find the textbook, those of you who have had me for anatomy, you might find the textbook a little more helpful, the writing in the textbook. In anatomy, the text was critical for the images, but in physio, the explanation of the processes, it's handy to have something to go back and refer to. We've already talked about clickers. If you need a clicker, got some to borrow if you want to give me a holla, holla. And I can't remember if I said this or not because this is like the 82nd time I've said all of this because I'm recording three syllabus lectures at the exact moment. You can borrow a clicker from me. You have to give me a $25 deposit. At the end of the semester, when you get my clicker back, I'll give you $20 back. That means you're paying me $5 rent for the clicker so that I can replace batteries by new clickers and clean stuff up and whatever, like that. You need a binder for your external brain in some format. Previous anatomy students have used their anatomy external brains as part of their physio external brains. I'm 100% cool with that. You decide what you, it's sometimes nice. If you don't have an anatomy external brain, it won't be doomed. But sometimes having that perspective is helpful. Anatomy and physio, we can't separate these classes. That's ridiculous. You get physio in anatomy and you get anatomy in physio because structure determines function. Okay, so make sure you have a clicker. And you got, oh yeah, I already did that clicker part. We have a course packet with the labs, the lecture notes, and the external brain assignments but this is the first time I've actually pulled it off for physio. Some of the labs are rather sparse so I'm hoping to have some time to beef up those. So you'll get some handouts of things that are being improved but there is a copy packet or there will be eventually in physio. But you can get all that stuff for free in canvas also. I'm super color coordinated. I mean, my outfits won't indicate that but my lecture notes, like I love color so you might want some colored pens or pencils when you're taking notes. Index cards and sticky notes are handy for organizing and sorting information and there's a coloring book thing that might be helpful to you. It's a resource that might be helpful. Okay, those are the required materials. Now let's talk about the specific physio assignments and then won't you be happy? I will.