Help:Students Guide

Are you a physiotherapist or physical therapist who is considered to be an expert in your clinical speciality?  Or are you a clinician in another area with expert experience to contribute to the physiotherapy and physical therapy community? We would very much welcome your contributions to Physiopedia.

This guide explains how you as an expert can use Physiopedia to contribute your knowledge to the rehabilitation community.

See also the Experts Step by Step Guide and the Experts FAQs.

Welcome to the Student's Guide section on Physiopedia! This page is specifically developed to help students get involved in developing and using Physiopedia to expand their knowledge of the profession.  Specifically, Physiopedia offers students the opportunity to develop clinically useful information, connect with educators and peers, and even work on learning activities related to your coursework. This guide explores ways that you can learn while sharing information with the rest of the physio world!

See also the User Tutorials, FAQ, and Basic Rules pages to begin.

What is a wiki?

A Wiki is a website that allows any visitor to easily contribute to and edit that website. Wikis are particularly suited to collaborative group authoring of documents and websites. The most famous example of a Wiki is Wikipedia, a very extensive on-line encylopedia that allows anyone to add to and edit its entries.

Wikis in teaching and learning

The nature of wikis means they offer a number benefits relating to learning and teaching applications:

• Wikis are ideal for collaborative writing applications.
  * Wikis can be edited and entries published without knowledge of specialist web development tools.
  * A wiki enables the development history of a document to be explored revealing who contributed what and when.
  * A wiki will never be lost along with the efforts that have been made in adding content to them, they can be continually updated and always be referred to.

Physiopedia in teaching and learning

As a wiki, Physiopedia offers educators an opportunity to involve their students in the creation of this global resource as part of an educational program. Student involvement in creating, reviewing and updating Physiopedia content is an excellent activity for developing skills of reflection, critical assessment and writing.