My name is Penny Black and I am a Public Health Program Evaluator at the University of Wisconsin’s Population Health Institute. As an evaluator, I am often called upon to present or facilitate discussions of evaluation results. Rad Resource – Prezi: For years, the presentation tool standard has been Microsoft PowerPoint. I have recently begun …
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My name is Marion O’Reilly-Stanhauer. I am an independent evaluation consultant focusing on out-of-school time (OST) programs such as after-school enrichment, tutoring, and summer success. The programs I work with are impacted by standardized testing in their states, often due to calls for additional OST support when standardized tests indicate low proficiency levels or the …
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My name is Zeke Fanning and I work for 1234more. I’m always on the hunt for data analysis tools that help with our clients web presence. Hot Tip – Vidi: I just discovered Vidi. It is free and creates data visualizations that are embeddable on a webpage or blog. I found it surprisingly easy to …
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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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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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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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We are Mary Kane and Scott Rosas, Principal and Senior Consultants at Concept Systems, Inc. located in Ithaca, NY. Our total concept mapping years number almost 30, and our work often focuses on surfacing and incorporating the values and perspectives of diverse stakeholders in planning and evaluation. Concept mapping engages people and their opinions and …
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My name is Susan Kistler. I am the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and author of aea365’s Saturday posts. Today, I wanted to call to your attention the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Better Life Index (BLI). OECD launched the BLI in May, describing it as a “new, interactive index that …
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My name is John Colon and I work for Better Questions Better Answers. I’m amazed by what is available, for free, for my computer. Here are some of my favorite, can’t live without, better than sliced bread tools. Rad Resources: I’d like to share 9 tools that make my life easier. 10: Gantzilla: Free version …
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Cheers aea365 readers! My name is Alex da Silva from Brazil. While I may be able to undertake analyses in SAS, I find myself turning more frequently to Microsoft Excel because so many people can then use it. If I set up something in Excel I can be more confident that my collaborators are going …
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