Week 1, Day 3
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)
Our first expert guest speaker is Dan Fogarty on Today 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.
Check Slack for new messages
Check the schedule in #weekly-schedules on Slack or on the week page in this portal
Check the ‘day page’ (like this one) for tasks & content
Check your project resource google doc in your project folder for new resources from Malayka (more on this below)
Check in with your PM on Slack
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
Write a practice newsletter synopsis for Friday’s workshop. Your synopsis should be ~150-400 words, and we recommend including a pertinent quote from the associated article(s) about the research.
Option 1
Option 2
Prepare for tomorrow’s discussion on Consensus Statements
Look over the discussion questions for tomorrow.
Starting up with your projects!
NOTE: PLEASE MAKE ALL NEW DOCUMENTS IN YOUR PROJECT FOLDER. IF YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO DO THIS, CHECK IN WITH YOUR PM.
Project-related tasks for today
Continue 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 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.
Start going through the newsletter update docs and searching the Concussion Alliance website. If you aren’t getting search results on the website, try using an incognito/private browsing window.
Clarify roles and responsibilities and start on your research process.
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
(~1 hr 30 min) For Consensus in Sport Discussion
Read this Guardian article about the lead-up to the 6th consensus conference
Read this white paper from the Repercussion Group (Malayka and Conor are members and coauthors)
Read this New York Times article about the results of the conference
Check out Peds Concussion, a living guideline (continuously updated)
Living guidelines are a potential alternative to the consensus statement process, which happens every four years
https://pedsconcussion.com/tool-2-6-post-concussion-information-sheet/
For Science Writers
Course: Science communication skills for journalists
(Required, recommended, totally optional)
Interviewing Scientists: Asking the right questions to get a great science story
How to simplify numbers and statistics
From clinical trials to confidence intervals: how to interpret research results
How to detect suspicious research findings and claims
Ethics of using research evidence
For Web Designers
Maintaining Analytics Records
All our Squarespace analytics since 2018 will be erased when we switch to the new site. We migrated to the new Google Analytics in 2022, so we have no Google Analytics records prior to 2022. This guide from Blue Hills Digital might be a workaround. Please study it, and we can discuss.
Squarespace and Google Analytics: a Step-by-Step Guide by Blue Hills Digital
Procedures and Tools
https://www.will-myers.com/products You can see how how the plug-ins function on this website
Criteria for pages - take a look at this spreadsheet for tracking what needs to be done for each page