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Sheila B. Robinson on Delightful Diagrams from Design Diva Duarte

Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a new cool tool to spice up your evaluation presentations and reports! Do you know the feeling you get when you stumble upon something so good you want to share it, but then again, part of you wants to keep it all …

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Creating Presentation Handouts with the Newest P2i Tool by Sheila B Robinson

Hello loyal readers! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a few tips on creating handouts for your next presentation (#Eval17 perhaps?). Repeat after me: Slides are not handouts! Slides are NOT handouts! I know, I know…it’s just so easy to print out your slides and give them to workshop …

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Lauren Baba and Carol Cahill on Evaluation writing for community partners and other audiences – Part 2

We are Lauren Baba and Carol Cahill with the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE), part of Group Health Research Institute (GHRI) in Seattle. Our team of consultants works with various stakeholders to evaluate community health initiatives, clinic-community linkages, and health improvement coalitions. We are always brainstorming new ways to make evaluation reports creative, …

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DVR TIG Week: Gretchen Biesecker on Applying Structures of Good Stories to Reporting Data

Greetings AEA365! My name is Gretchen Biesecker, and I am the Vice President of Evaluation at City Year. City Year is an education-focused, nonprofit organization founded in 1988 that partners with public schools and teachers to keep students in school and on track to succeed. This year I competed in my first storytelling slam—an event …

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Best of aea365 week: John Nash on Creating Outstanding Presentation Slides

My name is John Nash, and I am an associate professor at Iowa State University in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a joint appointment in Human Computer Interaction. I’m also a program strategist, evaluator, and design geek. 2014 Update:  I am now an associate professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department …

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ACA Week: Kathleen Tinworth on the Need to Communicate with Creativity and Innovation

I’m Kathleen Tinworth and I co-chair the recently re-named Arts, Culture, and Audiences TIG of AEA with Don Glass, who began this week’s AEA365 series. I lead the Audience Insights department at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and also consult via my alter ego, ExposeYourMuseum. Lessons Learned Don started this week with a …

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Susan Kistler on 4 Must See/Hear Webcasts and Podcasts to Round Out Your Knowledge Base

I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. I was inspired by Dorian’s 4/28 post on 5 must-read blogs for those working in nonprofits, and thought I would share a few must see/hear webcasts and podcasts with which you may not be familiar. Rad Resource – Videos on Evaluation Methods from UNICEF: …

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Susan Kistler on Data Visualization Part II

My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. One hot topic for me this year is data visualization – representing data in ways that are accurate, accessible, and appealing. My very first aea365 post identified resources for those with interests in data visualization – …

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John Nash on Creating Outstanding Presentation Slides

My name is John Nash, and I am an associate professor at Iowa State University in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a joint appointment in Human Computer Interaction. I’m also a program strategist, evaluator, and design geek. Today I’d like to share ways to improve slide presentations. Hot Tip: Know Your Audience …

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Angelina Lopez on Creating Visual Reports

Hi, I’m Angelina Lopez. At the New York City Department of Education’s iZone, we create visual reports to share our progress and what we are learning about edtech and blended learning initiatives. Our team uses these reports, sharing them as PDFs or Google Slides, for meetings with staff, department teams, and project partners. While long-form …

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