PP02 - Week One
- Go back to the Course Home Page
- Go to the Pre-Course Activities
- Go to the Course Activities
Introduction[edit | edit source]
Video from Rachael
Task 1: Familiarise yourself with the Physiopedia Project[edit | edit source]
Lets take a look around Physiopedia:
- Physiopedia - this is our open resource which can be viewed by anyone at any time but only edited by physiotherapists and physical therapists.
- Use the search in the top right to search for articles on your favourite topic.
- Click around the navigation sidebar on the left hand side - see if you can find the Presentations and the Decision Making Aids? Also have a look for the User Tutorials, you will be needing these!
- Take a look at the content creation Projects that we run.
- Have a look at the other open courses that we run.
- Take a look at our Partners who help to financially support all that we do.
- 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 can have their own professional column to share their experiences and opinions with the profession.
- Take a look at the Interviews section - we love this section, wise words from our professions experts.
- Physiopedia Members - this is where people can pay to access extra resources that we can't give away for free such as books, journal articles, videos etc.
- Sign up for the trial account and have a look around.
Reflect and share through your favourite social media platform (use the #physiopedia hash tag)- Whilst exploring the Physiopedia project, what have you found most interesting/exciting/useful? What surprised you the most? What is the thing that you would be most likely to share with your colleagues?
Task 2: Create your Physiopedia profile[edit | edit source]
Go to your user profile. You will notice that it has been populated with your short bio and some additional sub-headings. Your first task, to familiarise you with editing Physiopedia, is to make this page complete by making edits to your page:
- Click the Edit tab
- Write your text or make your changes in the editing box
- Use the icons in the tool bar to style and format it appropriately
- Click Save at the bottom of the page
When creating your profile you should add an image,add additional text under each subheading where appropriate and add a link (perhaps to your workplace or some published work or presentation). Also make sure that you have a go at editing the wikitext which is the special wiki code that each page is built with. To view and edit the wikitext click the wikitext button in the editing toolbar (click again to return to the normal editing interface). Read more about wikitext here - Wikitext Help
Your Physiopedia profile is a great place to promote yourself and your work to clients, colleagues and potential employers. Remember this page is publicly accessible so be professional.
See some examples here:
More help here at the Editing Your Profile tutorial
Task 3: Discussion [edit | edit source]
Go to the Facebook group for all online discussions.
- Share a link to your profile page and tell us something about yourself - You may have already done this as part of the pre-course activities but if you haven't please post a short summary which tells us where you live, where you work or study, how much experience you have and what you hope to get our of this course.....and one trivial thing about your life if you want (eg. what you like, your favourite movie etc).
- Following your exploration of the Physiopedia project what thoughts would you like to share - what has impressed you the most, what has dissapointed you, what should we work more on?
Feel free to start your own discussion thread as well. You can post any question or comment related to what you have learnt this week.
Optional: Other Resources and Learning Activities[edit | edit source]
The following resources are optional for you to read/view but will further expand your knowledge on this week's topics:
