Hello! It’s Sheila B Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor with a fabulous and  tool for polishing your presentations! Great presentations are complemented by great visuals. Using icons on your slides are one way to organize information visually, and direct your audience’s attention to the topic at hand. There is no shortage …
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My name is Elissa Schloesser with Visual Voice, I am a freelance graphic designer specializing in infographics, data visualization and reporting. I enjoy making complex information more understandable and engaging. Through my work, I have partnered with a number of evaluators to help visually communicate evaluation methods and findings. Lesson Learned: When creating the digital …
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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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Hi, this is Kat Athanasiades from Innovation Network. Our team is especially engaged in improving how evaluation information is communicated, and to that end we thought we would do some graphic recording at Evaluation 13! That’s me, working on the graphic recording of an Evaluation 13 session about advocacy evaluation. What is graphic recording? Graphic …
I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365’s current Lead Volunteer Curator, and a huge Stephanie Evergreen fan. Rad Resource: I’m thrilled to report that SAGE Publications just released Presenting Data Effectively: Communicating Your Findings for Maximum Impact. The book is already a success, as it is sold out on Amazon (at the time of this writing), and …
Hello dear people! I’m Stephanie Evergreen and I talk a lot about data visualization and strong reporting. Today I’m going to share with you another installment in our Fab Five Reboot series, where I redesigned five slides from five of AEA’s eStudy presenters. Let’s take a look at Tom Chapel’s slideshow.
My name is Michelle Mandolia and I work in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Evaluation Support Division. At last year’s conference, I attended Stephanie Evergreen’s three Potent Presentations Initiative sessions on Message, Design, and Delivery (now available as a 3-part webinar series or as PDFs at http://p2i.eval.org/). P2i has been a game changer for me. …
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I am Megan Greeson, an Assistant Professor of Clinical/Community Psychology at DePaul University. I conduct collaborative, utilization-focused program evaluations with community-based organizations and I also teach a graduate seminar course in Program Evaluation. I am Adrienne Adams, an Assistant Professor of Ecological-Community Psychology and Program Evaluation at Michigan State University. I use collaborative evaluation approaches …
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Greetings from the University of Chicago! We are Courtney Heppner and Sarah Rand, Associate Project Directors for Research and Evaluation at the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education (CEMSE) at the University of Chicago. We will be presenting at AEA’s Annual Conference in DC about producing online evaluation reports. Sarah has blogged about online …
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Hello, my name is Chris Metzner. I am a graphic and web designer based out of Jacksonville, Florida. I developed and continue to work with the AEA to maintain the p2i Potent Presentations Initiative website. Most of us want to be better presenters. We are learning about the value of an important message, effective slide …
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