Hey aea365ers, Sheila B. Robinson here, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with an update on what YOU are reading. Each year, we look at the top posts from the past year. We have to wait a bit since some posts get significant readership weeks or even months later! Lessons Learned: Here are the top posts of 2014, …
Sheila B Robinson on the Top Ten aea365 Articles of 2014! Read More »
Hello aea365ers! I’m Susan Kistler, Executive Director Emeritus of the American Evaluation Association, professional trainer and editor, and all around gregarious gal. Email me at susan@thesmarterone.com if you wish to get in touch. Rad Resource – Padlet: The last time I wrote about Padlet for aea365, exactly two years ago on September 12 of 2012, …
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I am Susan Kistler, contributing editor at TheSmarterOne.com (we finally launched this month – yay!) and former Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association. aea365 contributors have written before about producing online reports (for example here and here), wherein we learned, among other things, that evaluators are still feeling their way in terms of online reporting. …
Hi everyone! I’m Jordan Slice – a Research Specialist with Richland One, an urban school district in Columbia, South Carolina. Not long ago I wrote an aea365 post about how being a creator informs being an evaluator. As my original post may have made obvious, I’m a very visual person. That being said, I have …
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I’m Sue Griffey; I lead the Evaluation Center at Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. in Silver Spring MD. I mentor outside of work for professionals in evaluation and public health in both formal programs (Cherie Blair. Foundation (CBF), APHA-SA National Mentoring Program, Aspire, Foundation, Rollins School of Public Health Annual Mentoring Program) and through individual …
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I’m Susan Kistler, of TheSmarterOne.com, and I’m on to Part III of an Innovative Reporting Series (see Part I on chocolate reports and Part II on adding video to your toolbox). Today I wanted to share lessons from a project marrying street art, evaluation, infographics, technology, and community building. Lessons Learned: Last month, I had the …
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Greetings AEA365! My name is Miki Tsukamoto and I am a Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at the Planning and Evaluation Department in the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). What if you had an opportunity to add a human face to baseline surveys and reflect numbers in a more appealing …
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Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with the Top 10 aea365 posts of 2013! Enough time has passed that we can now take a look at the top 10 most-read non-staff aea365 posts from 2013 according to our feedburner statistics. Lesson Learned: Here’s what people were reading in 2013: Marc …
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I’m David Fetterman, evaluator, author, entrepreneur, and Google Glass user. Yesterday, we talked about what Google Glass is and how it can revolutionize communications. Today, let’s turn to thinking about how Glass could be used as an evaluation tool. Hot Tips – Glass for Empowerment Evaluation: Youth (with parental permission) can wear the Glass to …
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“Ok, glass.” That’s how you activate Google Glass. I’m David Fetterman and that’s me to the right wearing Google Glass. I’m an empowerment evaluation synergist and consultant, busy father and spouse, and owner of Fetterman & Associates. Rad Resource – Google Glass: Google Glass is a voice and gesture activated pair of glasses that lets …
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