Week 1, Day 2

Welcome to the first week 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. 

Meetings (Zoom link in Slack)

Your project start-up meetings are Today, 11/29! You’ll be meeting with your PM and me to discuss your project and finalize your project-start-up templates.

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. He’s also the author of Kill the Prince: An MMA Novel. Dan will be talking about his experience with concussion and persistent symptoms; take some time to think of a question or two for him.

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. 

Also on Friday, 12/2, is our second guest speaker–Stephen Casper, PhD–at 1 pm PST. Dr. Casper is a medical historian focusing on TBI and will be giving an interactive lecture on stigma.

Start-of-day Procedure

Keeping this here as a reminder while you all get acclimated.

  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 two Tasks to do today:

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!

  • (New) Let me know if you need a new sign-in link, I’m happy to provide a password reset.

(For Science Writers & PMs ) Newsletter Workshop sign-up

Starting up with your projects!

Project-related tasks for today

  • Project Start-Up Meetings are today! We’ll be going over the three start-up templates from your project folder and finalizing your timeline for the project. Make sure you’ve read over the “overview/resources” document in the folder before your meeting as well.

  • 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

For Science Writers

For Web Designers

  • Chrome Extension tool to help with migrating pages

    • Squarewebsites Chrome Extension for transferring pages (and blog posts?) take a look at this site

    • SquareWebsites Pro Chrome Extension Walkthrough Video watch this video

    • Malayka signed up for a 5-day free trial for this Chrome extension. It helps transfer pages from the 7.0 site to your 7.1 site. However, we don’t know if it preserves blog post dates. If it doesn’t, we will have to set up a word press (site or account, not sure), export blogs to Word Press, then import them to the new website.

      • Each person on the team will need a subscription the this Chrome extension (it's $5 month, so no problem).

      • The Chrome extension includes some good plugins such as adding Gallery Blocks back into 7.1 (they were in 7.0, and were deleted from 7.1)