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Know Your Dal

This fall, our Faculty will be participating in a new initiative called Know Your Dal (KYD). 

Know your Dal will launch on September 7 and will run for 13 consecutive weeks. Each week, a different Faculty will step into the spotlight, highlighting their work and their people through photos, Dal News articles, social media content and more. Students, faculty and staff will get an inside look at life in another Faculty, campus or city.

Our Faculty is scheduled for the week of September 21, 2015.   One of the tactics we'll be leveraging to share the work being done in our Faculty is a Storify (see an example here: https://storify.com/Dalnews/dalgrad-spring-convocation-2015). A Storify is a collection of social media posts from various accounts, curated into one shareable story.

Throughout our scheduled week of September 21 I encourage you to share via Twitter or Instagram a post that highlights your work, research, recent accomplishments, etc. in our Faculty. Photos and links are welcome, however you'll need to keep in mind the character restrictions of your chosen platform - not an easy task. Other caveats? In order for us to easily identify your post online and include it with the appropriate Faculty, we ask that you include the hashtag #KnowYourDal and share your post online no later than Thursday, September 24^th at 2pm. 

If you want to participate and share your work / research, but don't maintain a social media account – please send it my way. I will ensure that it is shared from our Faculty's social media account.

 I've included a couple of examples below, for your reference: 

•    Exploring feeding patterns of one of our region's most notable endangered species, the right whale: bit.ly/1MAB5vu #KnowYourDal - @kim_davies12

•    I keep the department’s ducks in a row. Daily. #KnowYourDal - @AJkim

•    Figuring out where our food comes from and how to improve it. #KnowYourDal #agriculture - @foodimprover

For additional inspiration, you may want to check out the #TweetYourThesis hashtag on Twitter, or UBC's #EdResearch campaign: http://yre.educ.ubc.ca/share-your-research/

To learn more about Know Your Dal and to follow along, visit: www.dal.ca/knowyourdal

Thanks in advance! Send any questions my way.  

Stephanie Rogers
(902) 893-7247