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Friday, June 19, 2015
Knowledge mobilization is a verb, not a noun. It’s an ongoing journey, not the destination. That’s what I learned this year as a research assistant for the CFICE knowledge mobilization hub. I wrote articles and sat on committees. I helped with newsletters and assisted with knowledge mobilization resources. But more than anything else, I... More
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
To those who use social media to help with research, or involved with advertising and/or marketing, online content consumption varies depending on the audience. How much online content do we consume? This infographic breaks down online content consumption by generation: Millennials (people who born in between 1981-1997), Generation X (born... More
Thursday, May 14, 2015
What you need to know If you're living in the modern world, chances are you've had some experience with the various forms of social media that are prevalent today. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are just a few of the platforms that people commonly use to convey messages, ideas, thoughts, and feelings. One of... More
Thursday, May 7, 2015
On April 24th, Sheena Greer, Lisa Erickson, and Fleur Macqueen Smith lead discussion on three topics: Digital tools and methods, face-to-face tools and methods, and traditional tools and methods that make knowledge sharable, understandable, and accessible. If you missed the discussion, fortunately these facilitators captured the resources and... More
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
What you need to know One of the oldest forms of knowledge mobilization is the written language. By definition, the modern practice of history begins with written language with the oldest form of writing dating from 5500 BCE. Today, modern forms of writing often come in the form of prints. These prints can be... More
CAGS members know that graduate research has an important role to play in building Canada’s future and training its leaders. There are many paths to that future. The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies believes that graduate students hold critical answers to that question. That’s why CAGS will be engaging humanities and social sciences... More
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
What you need to know Video abstracts tend to be 1-4 minutes, and allow the authors of an academic paper to personally explain their work to a broader audience. Video abstracts maximize engagement and visibility by allowing authors to combine filming themselves with images, animations and laboratory experiments to explain their research paper.... More
With the support from the MacArthur Foundation, an independent foundation that supports non-profit organizations, the How Housing Matters is an interactive website portal offering up-to-date, easily searchable research and news on a broad range of housing topics. The knowledge-sharing tool emphasizes the connection between housing and better... More
Friday, April 10, 2015
Inforgraphics (information graphic) have became very popular in recent years. As Isaac Coplan, a Knowledge Translation Coordinator at NeuroDevNet says, these forms of data visualization have been used in knowledge translation as a tool for disseminating research and sharing the findings of evaluations. Infographics provide a quick visual... More
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Have you ever heard of the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words”? Well, just as a lengthy novel can tell an intricate tale, so too can something as simple as a single image. Graphic, visual, and performance arts are media that encompass the two-dimensional (calligraphy, photography, drawing, painting ect), the three-dimensional... More
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
What you need to know Webinars use the internet to share knowledge with people in different cities, countries, or even continents. People can access them from anywhere. Webinars can be interactive including polls, question and answers, and dialogue. Participants can also connect and contribute through chat forums. Presentations can be saved and... More
Thursday, February 12, 2015
The td-net’s toolbox features selected methods for jointly producing knowledge across different academic and non-academic fields of expertise. The purpose of the toolbox is to help inter- and transdisciplinary researchers finding the adequate (mix of) methods for addressing the challenges of co-producing knowledge that they face. For that... More
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