Week 2, Day 1
Happy second week! We have a lighter curriculum this week and have standardized the meeting schedule as much as possible. Please let us know if you have any more feedback going forward!
We’re excited to welcome two more expert guest speakers this week! We’ll also be watching a movie and having a discussion on it. You’ll continue to work on your projects and, for science writers, we’ll have a workshop on working with Squarespace as you start to look towards building your webpages at the end of the week.
Meetings (Zoom link in Slack)
We start our week with a Monday Check-In meeting at 10 am PST.
We’ll have our movie discussion on League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis tomorow at 10 am PST.
Also tomorrow, please finish your newsletter synopsis drafts by the end of the day. More on this below
There are two Tasks to do today:
Thank you note for Stephen Casper
Please sign the thank you note for Dr. Casper and leave a little note thanking him for coming to speak with us on Friday.
(Newsletter writers) Thank you note for Fadhil Hussain
If you attended the newsletter workshop, please write a thank-you note to Fadhil for coming in and running the workshop.
(For Science Writers & PMs ) Newsletter
Here is the Newsletter Document. To select a category, write your name in red below the links posted in that category. Topics are first-come, first-served. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions about the process or about your topic. Drafts are due end of day Tuesday.
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.
Check your Overview/resources document.
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.
Continue working on your research process.
Check in with your PM about your progress.
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
Concussions in Football (23m)
Listen to this BBC radio program: How will the concussion issue affect the future of sport?
Watch League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis | Watch S2013 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site (1h 53m) by Tuesday morning