Week 1, Day 1

Welcome to the first day of your internship with Concussion Alliance! We are excited to work with you and to get to know you better. Thank you for joining us.

We look forward to helping you get up to speed on the worlds of web design and concussions in medicine and research while getting to know your fellow interns. You’ll have multimedia curricula every day, and we’ll spend time on remote teamwork and learning more about each other through social activities and group discussions. 

Our Welcome Meeting is at 10 am PST/12 pm CST/1 pm EST today! The Zoom link for this (and all our meetings) is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8428523914?pwd=dXA0TkRocTE2RjJHUzJGNGx6UEJzdz09

We’ll be starting on our projects right away! We’ll discuss this more in the welcome meeting, but we want to ensure you get started on looking at our initial resources for you and take the opportunity to meet with your project partner synchronously today. We’ll have project start-up meetings tomorrow–Tuesday, 11/29–with each group.

Our first expert guest speaker is Dan Fogarty on Wednesday at 1:30 pm PST; Dan is a concussion patient and advocate–and a CA community member. 

We’ll have our first Discussion on Consensus Statements on Thursday at 12 pm PST. 

Toward the end of the week, those of you who’d like to write for the newsletter will get a chance to practice your science writing before writing your real newsletter synopsis next week. You’ll write a practice synopsis and review it in our Newsletter Workshop on Friday, 12/2 at 11:30 am PST. 

Start-of-day Procedure

I’ll outline the procedure that we’d like for you to use for starting your days with us this winter. I’ll talk more about this at the welcome meeting and include this text for each “day” page this week.

  1. Check Slack for new messages

  2. Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack or 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 from Malayka (more on this below)

  5. Check in with your PM on Slack

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

There are four Tasks to do today:

Knowledge Evaluation (Please start here before you go on to look at any of the curriculum today)

  • We’ve created a short (and far from comprehensive) Concussion Knowledge Evaluation for you to complete. This evaluation consists of 26 short questions and exists to help us build a better curriculum and give us some educational metrics for grant applications. We know that everyone is coming in with a different level of knowledge, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

  • Here is the link to the evaluation

Concussion Alliance emails

  • You should receive an email notifying you of a new google workspace account from CascadiaNow! – this is your Concussion Alliance email and Google account. The link expires in 24 hours, so please sign in to the email as soon as you get it.

  • Email me from your Concussion Alliance email as soon as you get signed in.

  • Once you have a Concussion Alliance email, we’ll be able to give you a Grammarly Premium account!

Newsletter Workshop sign-up

Sign up for a Project Start-Up Meeting

  • When you meet with your project partner (more on that below), you’ll want to sign up for a project start-up meeting time using this appointment slot link. Please only sign up during or after your synchronous meeting with your partner.

Starting up with your projects!

Here are the projects and partners!

  • Populations: Concussion in Sport

    • Lexi Kingma & Catie Marvin

  • Populations: Youth: Infants, Toddlers, and Children (up through elementary school)

    • Jemsy Matthew & Beckett Schafer

  • About Concussions: Cognitive Dysfunction

    • Coral Outwater & Sonia Shah

  • Treatments: Overview of Self-Care

    • John Garay Hernandez & Shira Dubin

  • Website Redesign & Update

    • Neenah Bosman, Ugo Anyaegbunam, & Antonio Marino

Project-related tasks for today

  • Reach out to your partner to schedule a time to meet synchronously today (we’ll talk about this more in the Welcome Meeting).

  • Sign up for your Project Start-Up Meeting tomorrow (also above).

  • Start looking through your project folders (we will DM them to your project channel in Slack and you’ll get a share notification in your Concussion Alliance Gmail account).

    • Project folders will have 3 templates in them: an initiation & planning template, a research template, and a timeline template. Look these over and start thinking about how you’re going to fill them out. We’ll finalize them in your Project Start-Up Meeting tomorrow.

    • Project folders will also have an Overview/resources document in them. This document gives an overview of the project and contains resources to get you started. Read through the document and start looking at resources as time allows. When you start your research project, you should go through the resources and search repositories outlined in this document first.

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.

For Everyone

  • Read chapter 1 of Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion

For Science Writers

  • (~40 min) Video: Chris Giza, MD, presentation at the 2019 University of Michigan Sport Concussion Summit. Dr. Giza is the Director of the Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program at UCLA. The neurometabolic cascade pathology of concussion, male / female difference in concussions, blood biomarkers, rest vs. aerobic exercise in recovery, neurodegeneration and CTE, persistent post-concussion symptoms.

  • Course: Science communication skills for journalists

    • (Required, recommended, totally optional)

    • (Recommended) The basics of research

    • (Required) How to find the news in a research paper

    • (Required) What makes a good science story?

    • (Required) Using academic search engines and research databases to find newsworthy research

For Web Designers

How to Build 7.1 websites

How to transfer the website from 7.0 to 7.1