Hi! Our names are Kirsten Anderson, Anika Taylor, and Tatyana Venegas Swanson. We are students from the University of Minnesota who were tasked with designing an innovative method of evaluating the AEA Conference. Originally we wanted to display the connections that formed between individuals over the course of the conference. However, due to time constraints …
Hello! We are Hanife Cakici, Christopher Pleasants, and Shipi Kankane from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. We were a part of the team of conference evaluators for Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. We asked conference participants to select a question from a menu, and videoed their responses to be shared …
Hello, this is Hannah Appelbaum, Brittany Edwards, Andy Grewell, and Jessamay Thompson. We are the team of graduate students that evaluated the Ignite talks (http://igniteshow.com/) at this year’s AEA conference. Because they were a new feature this year, we chose to evaluate these talks in order to assess their effectiveness for inclusion in future conferences. …
Greetings from Jean King and Laura Pejsa from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. This week we will be introducing you to a crop of graduate student evaluators who (we think) made quite a splash at the AEA conference last month. If you attended, you may have seen one or …
My name is Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and perpetual aea365 Saturday contributor Lessons Learned: Two pieces of background information will help you wade your way through the following post if you aren’t familiar with the topic. Twitter: You’ve likely heard of Twitter – the microblogging platform on which users share conversation …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Rad Resource – The aea365 Evaluation Bloggers Series: Beginning December of last year, for one week each month through April, we highlighted evaluation blogs in our Bloggers Series. Altogether, over 25 bloggers shared information about their blogs, …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and aea365’s regular Saturday contributor. Last week, I wrote about 25 low-cost/no-cost tech tools for Data Visualization and Reporting. Here’s a bit more about one of them. Rad Resource – Fiverr: On fiverr, people list things that they will do for $5. Lots of it …
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I am Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the owner of iMeasureMedia. I usually don’t mention the latter on aea365, but today I want to be clear that I’m wearing my iMeasureMedia hat since AEA does not endorse particular products or services. Last week, at Evaluation 2012, I gave a …
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I am Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and I am writing today as we wind down Evaluation 2012. Today, I wanted to let the attendees speak a bit for themselves, sharing via Twitter a bit of the buzz around the conference. Hot Tip: Storify is a free tool that allows you to …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director, and today I am writing from the AEA annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Get Involved: The Presidential Strand kicked off with a great panel on the future of evaluation. You can get involved by posting your own prediction for evaluation’s future on …
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