Talk:International Collaborative Student Project 2010
Welcome to the Talk page for the International Collaborative Undergraduate Student Project that we are hoping to run in 2010. The aim of this project is to be a totally collaborative one so please feel free to add any ideas or comments in relation to this project on this page. You can also express your interest in joining this (or subsequent) international collaborative projects on this page. We look forward to your comments! Rachael Lowe 10:57, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
Minor point about "undergrad"[edit source]
Most of the students in the US who are in PT programs are graduate students.
- Good point, we are in actual fact hoping to involve any physiotherapy or physical therapy student. I will amend the project title with regard to this Rachael Lowe 10:07, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Survey[edit source]
I was wondering about using Google Forms (part of Docs) as a possible means of conducting the survey at the conclusion of the project. I've set up an example of what's possible and shared it with you. Let me know what you think. Michael Rowe 08:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
- That's definately a possibility. Otherwise we could use Survey Monkey. Rachael Lowe 10:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Student selection[edit source]
How are we going to select students? Will we just put the question to the class? What if everyone wants to participate? What if no-one does? What are the incentives to participate, considering they will receive no academic credit. Can we offer them the possibility of a student publication of the results? Michael Rowe 08:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
- The original idea is that entire classes would participate in this project as part of their education. The project would try to tie in with work that they are doing in the semester that the project takes place and the students may or may not be assessed on the work that they complete as part of this project. This is how the previous student projects in Physiopedia have taken place. If it is not possible to organise the project in this way then it may be the case that we alter the project to use volunteer students, however I do feel that by doing this the value of the project may be reduced. Rachael Lowe 10:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
Communication[edit source]
Can I suggest making use of multiple channels of communication that others who are involved in the project can track without having to visit the wiki? Example, if I blog about something I contributed to the project, I can tag my blog post with "isp1". Similarly, I can add the hashtag #isp1 to my Twitter feed if I tweet anything relevant to the project e.g. a resource that might be useful to participants.
People can then track anything related to the project by using Google Alerts (or something similar), without keeping all the content in the wiki. I'm a big fan of aggregating diverse content from multiple sources in a time and place that suits me, so I'd like to suggest this method of communication, in addition to the Talk pages of the wiki. Michael Rowe 08:00, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
- Good idea. Lets all use the ISP1 tag in whereever we may make comment about this project. Rachael Lowe 10:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
