PP02 - Week One

Original Editor - Rachael Lowe

Top Contributors - Admin, Kim Jackson, Rachael Lowe, Tony Lowe, Ahmad Usama Ali Khan and Nweze Ejiofor Edwin  

Useful links

• Go back to the Course Home Page
• Go to the Pre-Course Activities
• Go to the Course Activities

Introduction

This week you are going to meet your colleagues on this course, explore the Physiopedia Project, create your own profile page in Physiopedia and share your first volunteer experiences.

Before you start this course

Before you start the week one activities be sure that you have completed the pre-course activities.

Task 1: Familiarise yourself with the Physiopedia Project

Lets take a look around Physiopedia:

1. Physiopedia - this is our free Wikipedia style resource which can be viewed by anyone at any time but only edited by physiotherapists and physical therapists.
   • Be sure to read the About page.
   • Use the search (magnifying glass icon) in the top right to search for articles on your favourite topic.
   • Have a look at the User Tutorials, you will be needing these! [Note: we haven't updated these since the website upgrade so some may be out of date!]
   • Take a look at the content creation Projects that we run.
   • Have a look at the other open courses that we run.
2. Physiospot - this is our online magazine.
   • Take a look at the Research section - this is where we highlight recently published research.
   • Take a look at the Voices section - this is where anyone (including you!) can have their own professional column to share their experiences and opinions with the profession.
   • Take a look at the Physiopedia section - this highlights all the recent news and activities from Physiopedia.
3. Physioplus - this is how we fund the Physiopedia Project. People can choose to pay to access our online courses and CE/CPD resources and profits from this service is put into the Physiopedia charity.
   • Sign up for the trial account and have a look around.
4. Sign up for the email newsletters to receive updates from the Physiopedia project.
   • Physiopedia updates
   • Physioplus updates

Task 2: Create your Physiopedia profile

Your next task is to familiarise yourself with editing Physiopedia by editing your own profile page.  When you set up your Physiopedia account a profile page was automatically created for you but you need to personalise the information on the page yourself. Your Physiopedia profile is a great place to promote yourself and your work to clients, colleagues and potential employers, it is also linked to from any edit you make in Physiopedia. Remember this page is publicly accessible so be professional!

Go to your user profile. You will notice that it has been populated with your short biography that you supplied in your account request and some additional headings. You should make this page complete by making edits to your page:

1. Go to the Edit link in the navigation bar (you must be logged in to see this), in the drop down menu click the Edit link.
2. Make changes to the text on your profile page as you wish. We suggest you move the short biography at the top further down the page under the most appropriate headings, and add new information to complete your profile.
3. Use the icons in the tool bar to style and format the page appropriately.
4. Click the blue Save link at the top of the page.

When creating your profile we would like you to do these three things:

1. add an image,
2. add additional text under each subheading where appropriate (you can remove headings that you don't want to use)
3. add a link (perhaps to your workplace or some published work or presentation).

Also make sure that you have a go at editing the Source code, this is the special code behind all the Physiopedia content. To edit the Source code click Edit Source from the drop down menu. Read more about the Source code (also know as wikitext) here - Wikitext Help. Don't worry if you find this overwhelming to start with, it will get easier as you do more editing.

See some volunteer profile examples here:

• Rachael Lowe
• Evan Thomas
• George Prudden
• Wendy Walker
• Scott Buxton

More help here at the Editing Your Profile tutorial

Task 3: Discussion 

All the course discussions will take place in Slack.  You will have received an email inviting you to our course Slack team when you signed up for the course, if you haven't received this please let us know.

Please post your discussions in the relevant discussion thread that will be set up for you in Slack. Look under the channels for each specific discussion:

1. In the "week one discussion one" channel (#w1d1) - Share a link to your profile page and tell us about your first experience of editing Physiopedia. 
2. In the"week one discussion two" channel (#w1d2) - Following your exploration of the Physiopedia project post some thoughts on what you have learned - what has impressed you the most, what has disappointed you, what ideas did you have to improve the Physiopedia project.

Please feel free ask questions and to start your own discussions in the #general channel.  Use this channel to help each other out, it's all about team work!

Task 4: Let's get social!

As a team we like to spread the Physiopedia love as much as possible through our professional networks on social media.

1. In the "week one discussion three" channel (#w1d3) - Share a link to your professional social media accounts so that we can connect with you. If you don't have any social media accounts, that's fine too, just let us know in the discussion.
2. On your favourite social media platform tell the world about you first week as a Physiopedia volunteer. Make sure that you use @physiopedia and /or use the #TeamPP hashtag so we can respond to you! 

And that's it, week one done! Well done for getting this far and we are looking forward to working with you in week two!