Week 4, Day 1

Welcome to Week 4! This week, you’ll have a final discussion on Shaken Brain, continue to work on your individual research projects, and hear from Guest Speaker Leah Whitlow. We’ll also be watching Concussion (2015), a biographical sports drama recounting Dr. Bennett Omalu’s discovery of CTE in the NFL. As a reminder, even weeks are newsletter writing weeks so you’ll also be creating another set of synopses for the next two Concussion Alliance newsletters.

Tasks/Notifications:

Newsletter Writing

  • As a reminder, you’ve been split up into 2 groups for newsletter writing. Each group will write a full newsletter during the same period (Monday-Tuesday of every other week), but Group A’s synopses will be published on the same week, and Group B’s synopses will be published on the following week. Both groups’ synopses will be due tomorrow at 5 pm PST.

    • Group A (Publishing July 8): Elizabeth Zhao, Julia Brzac, Lori Mae Yvette Calibuso Acob, Nathan Campbell, Wyatt Hill, Christine Hau, Emma Chin, Chelsea Ryan, Melissa Brown

    • Group B (Publishing July 15): Clovis Wong, Karina Suwal, Meena Shanmugam, Alex Widman, Alyssa Schaechinger, Han Nguyen, Bethany Lazo, Calder Stenn, Aamy Woldesenbet

  • Choosing a Category/Synopsis: July 8/July 15 Update Document

    • When you want to start writing, check your group’s final document to see what categories have already been claimed. Choose a category that has not yet been claimed and write your name in red underneath that category.

    • Then, go to the Update Document linked above and look through the potential sources in that category. When you choose a source to write about, post a comment that you’re writing about that source in the Update Document, and then copy the link over to your category in your final document.

    • As a reminder, the newer sources are near the top of each category header, and you can navigate the document by the outline on the left side of the google docs layout.

    • There are fourteen total categories, and each of you will pick one, so that means that we will publish about nine categories for each newsletter, plus the Opportunities category, which Malayka will write.

    • For each newsletter, we want to be sure to cover the four topics listed below. If you look on your group’s final document and see one of these topics are still available, please consider taking writing on one of them and checking out the relevant sources on the update document.

      • Therapies Currently Available

      • Self-care

      • Youth

      • Women’s Health

  • Please run your synopsis through Grammarly before submitting it. You all should have a Grammarly Premium subscription (provided by Concussion Alliance). If you have not received an invitation for Premium, let us know.

Projects

  • Continue working on your individual projects. Be conscious of your planned timeline and the topics you discussed with Conor and Malayka regarding additional research and next steps.

Educational Resources:

Concussion Curriculum

  1. Read Shaken Brain, Conclusion in preparation for our discussion tomorrow.