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Susan Kistler on the Amazing Multicolor Search Engine (you gotta try this!)

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 16, 2016

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director and usual aea365 Saturday contributor. But, you say, “it isn’t Saturday Susan, what are you doing here?” “Well,” says I, “there was a last minute cancellation so I’m stepping in to share a surprisingly addictive tool to help as you are on the hunt for pictures …

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DOVP Week: John Kramer on Universal Design Principle 3: Making Language Understandable for Everyone

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 25, 2012

My name is John Kramer and I am currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Community Inclusion, University of Massachusetts Boston. My work focuses on research and evaluation of employment outcomes of people with disabilities, participatory research, and aging issues for families of people with disabilities. I am a new member of the American …

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PD CoP Week: David Brewer on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 5: Student Learning Outcomes

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / July 27, 2012

My name is David Brewer, Senior Extension Associate for the Employment and Disability Institute at Cornell University. Professional development isn’t always about listening to a presenter, watching a slide presentation, and asking a few questions.  True learning with measurable student impact in mind involves relationship building Lesson Learned: Creating our own Evidence. You don’t have …

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PD CoP Week: Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn on Evaluating Professional Development: Guskey Level 4 – Participant’s Use Of New Knowledge And Skills

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building, Prek-12 Educational Evaluation / July 27, 2012

Hi! We are Marguerite Dimgba and Sheila Robinson Kohn, Professional Learning Center Director and Policy Board Chair, from Greece Central School District in Rochester, NY. While Guskey indicates that this level of evaluation cannot be completed at the end of a professional development (PD) session or even multi-session course, we do begin to gather data …

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Stephanie Evergreen on the Dynamic Dozen

1 Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Uncategorized / August 18, 2012

My name is Stephanie Evergreen and I am AEA’s eLearning Initiative Director and lead of the Potent Presentations Initiative. I’m sitting in for Susan Kistler this Saturday and boy do I have something awesome to share with you. As part of the Potent Presentations Initiative, we identified the top dozen AEA presenters (that is, based …

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Ian Shadrick on Accessibility During and After Your Potent Presentation

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / August 6, 2012

Hello, I am Ian Shadrick, program coordinator of graduate programs in Blindness and Low Vision and Orientation & Mobility at Missouri State University. As a follow up to some of great tips provided in Creating Presentation Potent for All, I’d like to talk to you today about some additional methods to ensure full inclusion of …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Simple and Low Tech Things to Increase the Effectiveness of your Presentations

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting / August 1, 2012

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation.  I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Have you ever felt bored sitting in a conference presentation, or frustrated by a presenter with poor delivery …

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Jennifer Coyle on Creating Presentations Potent for those with Hearing Loss or Hearing Aids

3 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 30, 2012

Hello, I am Jennifer Coyle, Research Associate at Western Michigan University and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the National Secondary Technical Assistance Center. Due to the number of emails and comments on yesterday’s post, this is a follow up to Creating Presentations Potent for All with tips specific to presenting to people who may have hearing …

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June Gothberg on Creating Presentations Potent for All

11 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations / July 26, 2012

Greetings, I am June Gothberg and assisting with AEA’s Potent Presentations Initiative (p2i). Today, I want to share with you how to design presentations for all audience members. It is important that presentations are readable, navigable, and understandable. Lesson Learned: Your audience is likely to be diverse. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates: 7-8% of …

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Kylie Hutchinson on Effective Reporting Techniques for Evaluators

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting / January 16, 2016

My name is Kylie Hutchinson.  I am an independent evaluation consultant and trainer with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation.  I give regular webinars and workshops on evaluation topics for the AEA and CES and Twitter weekly at @EvaluationMaven. Like all of you, I try to be conscientious about conducting the best evaluation possible.  But for …

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