Week 3, Day 2

Welcome to your second day of the third week with us! We hope you enjoyed Dr. Steven Broglio’s discussion, and we are thrilled to have Dr. Alyssa Memmini on as our expert guest speaker today. Additionally, we will also have our discussion on Shaken Brain this week!

Our second expert guest speaker talk will be by Dr. Allyssa Memmini Today at 1:00 pm | 3:00 pm CT | 4:00 pm ET. Dr. Memmini is a CA community member and an Assistant Professor at University of New Mexico with a focus on influence of concussion in university setting. You can check out her short profile on our website here.

We also have our second discussion on Shaken Brain Chapters 5-7 on Friday at 10:00 am PT | 12:00 pm CT | 1:00 pm ET.

Start-of-day Procedure

  1. Check Slack for new messages

  2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack, on the week page in this portal

  3. Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content

  4. Check your project resource Google doc in your project folder for new resources

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack

  6. Check in with your project partner(s) on Slack

There are 2 (new) tasks to do today:

  • finish working on your newsletter synopsis!

    The deadline is the end of the day today.

  • Continue to work on your project.

    Reminder: Make sure you have most of your research done by Wednesday July 10 because your outline is due this Friday on July 12. (Note: we know that you will continue to read and incorporate research as you work on your draft, so don’t feel pressure to have read all the research you’ve found thoroughly by Wednesday).

Curriculum for Today

We’ve provided a group of educational resources below. We’ve listed them in an order that we hope will build on your understanding of concussions as you go through them.

Unit 1: Our CME (~45 min)

Unit 6: Stanford Writing Course

  • Stanford Writing Course Unit/Week 3: Crafting Better Sentences and Paragraphs

    • Do this at your own pace throughout the week, each lesson is separate (~3 hours total)