Our names are Judy Savageau and Terri Anderson. Judy is Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Terri is Director for Evaluation in the University of Massachusetts Medical School Commonwealth Medicine Center for Health Policy and Research. Founded in 1999, Commonwealth Medicine’s mission is to apply knowledge …
My name is Sharon Smith-Halstead and I would like to share tools for storytelling for evaluators. Lesson Learned: There is an art to telling stories. Whether you are narrating the story of your grandmother’s journey to America, of your child’s first words, or of the way a program succeeded or failed, there is an art …
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Cheers! I am Sona Madison, a research methods student and amateur photographer. One of my pastimes is combining my academic work with my photography passion by using my own and others best photos as part of reports. Back in May of 2010, Susan Kistler wrote an entry for aea365 on Sites for Free Photos for …
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I’m Roger Miranda, an Independent Evaluator (here’s my website), and author of Eva the Evaluator, a storybook for both young and old explaining what evaluation is. This summer, I facilitated a workshop at the University of Manitoba’s Summer Institute on Program Evaluation. For it, I solicited ideas via Evaltalk, the American Evaluation Association’s public discussion …
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I’m Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and contributor of each Saturday’s post to aea365. Back on day 2 of aea365, in January of 2010, I recommended FlowingData as part of a post about favorite resources for data visualization inspiration. Rad Resource: This month, FlowingData’s curator, Nathan Yau, published Visualize This: …
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Jan Losby and Alberta Mirambeau are members of the Evaluation and Program Effectiveness Team in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In a climate of limited resources, we recognize that public health programs may not be able to evaluate every aspect of their work. We …
I’m Jolene VillaLobos and I work as a part-time program director/part-time evaluator for a mid-size nonprofit. We’ve recently been exploring the use of video which has meant that I’ve been exploring tools to help in that quest. Hot Tip: Vimeo is a free video hosting service. It hosts videos, just as YouTube hosts videos, but …
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My name is Kylie Hutchinson. I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation. I teach workshops on evaluation and occasionally facilitate the Canadian Evaluation Society’s Essential Skills Series course. I am also a regular workshop presenter at AEA conferences, eStudy Webinars, and the Summer Evaluation Institute. I also Twitter …
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My name is Dan Jorgensen and I currently serve as the evaluation and research coordinator for the State Personnel Development Grant at the Colorado Department of Education. My primary responsibilities involve the evaluation of six state initiatives including Response to Intervention, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, Autism/Significant Support Needs, Early Childhood, Communities of Practice, and …
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When you type a general search term into google, the most frequently returned first response is from Wikipedia, the giant online crowd-sourced encyclopedia of knowledge. While wikipedia’s reliability may be called into question, its accuracy is based on the work of the masses – of you and I and our willingness to contribute, edit, correct, …
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