Hi! Our names are Kirsten Anderson, Anika Taylor, and Tatyana Venegas Swanson. We are students from the University of Minnesota who were tasked with designing an innovative method of evaluating the AEA Conference. Originally we wanted to display the connections that formed between individuals over the course of the conference. However, due to time constraints …
Hello! We are Hanife Cakici, Christopher Pleasants, and Shipi Kankane from the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) at the University of Minnesota. We were a part of the team of conference evaluators for Evaluation 2012 in Minneapolis. We asked conference participants to select a question from a menu, and videoed their responses to be shared …
Hello, this is Hannah Appelbaum, Brittany Edwards, Andy Grewell, and Jessamay Thompson. We are the team of graduate students that evaluated the Ignite talks (http://igniteshow.com/) at this year’s AEA conference. Because they were a new feature this year, we chose to evaluate these talks in order to assess their effectiveness for inclusion in future conferences. …
I am Susan Kistler, the Executive Director of the American Evaluation Association and the owner of iMeasureMedia. I usually don’t mention the latter on aea365, but today I want to be clear that I’m wearing my iMeasureMedia hat since AEA does not endorse particular products or services. Last week, at Evaluation 2012, I gave a …
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Hi. My name is A. Rae Clementz and in addition to being the co-chair of the Graduate Student and New Evaluator TIG, I am also a techie. I believe technology is of value when it helps us accomplish our goals in ways that are better, easier, and/or cheaper. I have evaluated several educational technology integration …
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My name is Melissa Cater, and I am an assistant professor and evaluation specialist at Louisiana State University AgCenter. “At its most fundamental, visual research draws on our basic capacity to interpret the world through our sense of sight.” Christopher J. Pole Visual evaluation methods leverage the power of art, photography and video as …
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My name is Naomi Walsh. I am an independent consultant working primarily with nonprofits. Today, I want to share information about a favorite, free, online journal. Rad Resource: NTEN is the Nonprofit Technology Network. Their annual membership is only $85 per year, about like AEA’s, and if you work with nonprofits at all – even …
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I am Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 Saturday contributor. Recently, we took a look at the traffic on AEA’s web assets – our website, aea365, TIG websites, etc. I thought that I would share a few things that we learned along the way. Lesson Learned – Visitors: Website traffic is subject to a …
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I’m Sue Griffey, Director of the Evaluation Center in the Public Health Research group at Social & Scientific Systems in Silver Spring (MD) and blogger at Sue Mentors. It never fails that the time that I’m crunching at a deadline for getting a report or presentation done is when I need to do something that I …
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Greetings, I am June Gothberg, Lead Curator for aea365 and Research Associate at Western Michigan University. As Lead Curator, I am always looking for ways to expand the knowledge of evaluators through hot tips, cool tricks, lessons learned, and rad resources. While working on my dissertation, I made a great find and thought I would …
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