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Video in #Eval Week: Corey Newhouse on Using Video as an Elicitation Technique

Hi there. I’m Corey Newhouse, the Founder and Principal of Public Profit, based in Oakland, California. We help public service organizations measure and manage what matters. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Public Profit uses video in our evaluation of the Partnerships for Learning (PFL) initiative of the National Equity Project. We use video …

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Video in #Eval Week: Paul Barese on the Value Added of Video

Leave a Comment / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 3, 2013 April 3, 2013

Greetings. I’m Paul Barese, Owner-Director of Quimera, a small business based in Washington, DC. Quimera isn’t a traditional media house, rather, teams are interdisciplinary and our approaches are informed by social science and qualitative research, change management, film studies, and social enterprise. Quimera helps clients identify innovative ways to use video. In some projects video-based …

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Video in #Eval Week: William Rickards on Video Interviewing in Evaluation Inquiry

Leave a Comment / Assessment in Higher Education, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Qualitative Methods / April 2, 2013 April 2, 2013

My name is William Rickards; I am currently senior research associate in the Office of Program Accreditation and Evaluation at USC Rossier School of Education. My career has largely been focused in higher education, although I have worked in program evaluation in delinquency prevention, youth services, and in a range of educational and social services. …

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Video in #Eval Week: Cindy Banyai on Putting it in Their Hands – Using participatory video to foster evaluation ownership

2 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 1, 2013 April 1, 2013

Hi! I’m Cindy Banyai, Executive Director of the Refocus Institute – an international collaboration focusing on training and participatory practices in evaluation. I want to share my experience using participatory video to fully bring evaluation participants into the process. Lessons Learned – how we’re using video: Video is one tool for analysis and expression in …

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Video in #Eval Week: Kas Aruskevich on Telling the Story Through Video

1 Comment / Indigenous Peoples in Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, STEM Education and Training / March 31, 2013 March 31, 2013

Greetings from Alaska. I’m kas aruskevich, principal of Evaluation Research Associates (ERA), I work in rural Alaska with a great team of evaluators, associates, and local intermediaries. In the unique Alaskan context in which we work, telling the story through video helps us to show the context of people, place, and situations. Video clips, compiled …

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Kerry Bruce on Getting Started with Mobile Phones

5 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Uncategorized / March 26, 2013 March 26, 2013

Hi, I am Kerry Bruce, Director of Results and Measurement at Pact. I am part of Pact’s central technical team that provides monitoring and evaluation support to more than 20 country offices and more than 70 projects around the world. In 2012 we started to roll out the use of mobile technology in our programs. …

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Tarek Azzam on Using Crowdsourcing in Evaluation Practice

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 4, 2013 March 4, 2013

I am Tarek Azzam, assistant professor at Claremont Graduate University and associate director of the Claremont Evaluation Center. Today I want to talk about crowdsourcing and how it can potentially be used in evaluation practice. Generally speaking, crowdsourcing is the process of using the power of the many individuals (i.e. the crowd) to accomplish specific …

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Susan Kistler on Voting for Our Next ‘How To’ Series

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / January 12, 2013 January 12, 2013

My name is Susan Kistler, the Executive Director for the American Evaluation Association and regular aea365 Saturday contributor. Over the past year, we’ve had quite a few requests to share the behind-the-scenes of AEA’s projects as they have application outside of the association. Get Involved: Vote! We’re hoping to develop a ‘how to’ series, drawing …

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Jake Lee on Using Dipity to Chronicle Personal and Professional Milestones

Leave a Comment / Evaluation Managers and Supervisors, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / January 3, 2013 January 6, 2013

I am Jake Lee and it’s time to get organized! I know that many of us say that each new year, and then clean out a closet or read Getting Things Done and check off the resolution for another year. My personal challenge is not around organizing THINGS. My recycling is sorted, my spices alphabetized, …

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Innovative #Eval Week: Schwalbe, Miller, and Gensinger on #EvalAHA! What Can Twitter Tell Us about the AEA Conference?

2 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Teaching of Evaluation / November 29, 2012 November 29, 2012

Hi, we’re Anne Schwalbe, Keith Miller, and Michelle Gensinger, graduate students in the Evaluation Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. We chose Twitter as a platform for exploring creative evaluation methods at the AEA Annual Conference. These are the questions we hope to answer with our analysis: How was Twitter used during the conference? …

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