Week 1, Day 5

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)

We start our day with another Social Hour meeting at 10am PST. 

Our Newsletter Workshop is Today at 11:30 am PST. We’ll be arriving with our practice synopses and comparing it to the pre-existing synopsis from a past newsletter.

Also Today, 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.

Remember to watch League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis | Watch S2013 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site before the morning of Tuesday 12/6 when we will discuss the movie.

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:

Thank you note for Dan Fogarty

  • For those of you who didn’t get a chance yesterday, please sign the thank you note for Dan and leave a little note thanking him for coming to speak with us on Wednesday.

(For Science Writers & PMs ) Newsletter Workshop

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

  • Read Chapter 4 of Shaken Brain: The Science, Care, and Treatment of Concussion

For Science Writers

For Web Designers

  • (~30 minutes) Spend some time perusing the CrashCourse Concussion Story Wall to hear personal stories from people whose lives have been touched by concussion 

    • Click “Story Wall” to get a searchable database where you can find stories categorized by Cause of Injury, Symptoms, and more 

  • (~6 min) Listen to “This is What a Concussion Sounds Like,” a 6-minute radio story from Seattle NPR member station KUOW hosted on our personal stories page\

  • Procedures and Tools