ISP1

Project Lead - Rachael Lowe

Tutors - Michael Rowe (University of the Western Cape, South Africa); Aileen Barret (Royal College of Sugeons, Ireland)

Students - fourth year students from University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and foundation year students from Royal College of Sugeons, Ireland.

Project description - voluntary peer learning/coaching project where students will work together to create new clinical pages within Physiopedia,also the fourth year South African students will act as mentors to the foundation year Irish students on their academic (i.e. literature searching, literature reviewing, writing, referencing skills etc)

Project Plan

1. Project to start in March 2010 and to run for 10-12 weeks.
   
2. Michael Rowe will invite appropriate students from the University of Western Cape to participate and Aileen will invite students from the Royal College of Surgeons.
   
3. Students will be divided into groups and allocated pages to work on.
4. At the start of the project tutors will complete a face to face introductory session for their students locally.  Following this the students can start working within Physiopedia on the pages.

Students will:

1. Meet and greet - you should first create your profile page in Physiopedia.  Your profile page should include an image of yourself and links to social networking site profile that you are happy to share with your peers.  This will allow you to practice editing pages and uploading images, and also enable you to 'meet' each other online.
   
2. Develop a plan of action - as a group you should make a plan of action as to how you and when will complete the tasks below.
3. Identifying the evidence - you should all complete a literature search to identify key research papers relating to the page that you are working on. You should review these papers and discuss them with your group.
   
4. Create the page - to create your page you should allocate each person in your group responsibility for a different section of your page. They should write the initial content for that section of the page and add relevant evidence for what they have written.
   
5. Add media - you might like to think about adding images and video to enhance your page. Images and video that you create as a group will be highly regarded.
6. Review your work - as a group you should review each others work and make any edits as necessary.
   
7. Housekeeping - make sure that you allocate time at the end of the project to complete and tidy up your page.
8. Peer review - Once the pages have been created you should review all your colleagues pages and select your top three pages.  You will be sent details of how to submit this.
9. Feedback - When you submit your peer review you will also be asked to complete the feedback survey. Once you have done this your work on the project has ended.

 * Remember, the 'Talk' page related to your page is available for related discussions throughout the project and will probably be used for assessment, however it is also appropriate to communicate with your peers outside of Physiopedia by other means, e.g. Email, Facebook, Twitter

Tutors will:

1. Provide local guidance and support where necessary.
   
2. Assess their own students on completion of the project
   

Rachael Lowe will:

1. Follow edits made by the students and providing support remotely where necessary.
2. Collect feedback and announcing the winners of the peer review.

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