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Summer Evaluation Institute Attendees on Low-cost No-cost Tools for Evaluators Part III

At the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, over 150 attendees went to a session on Low-cost/No-cost Tools for Evaluators. Here are some of the great ideas on collaborative tools recommended from the audience. Microsoft SharePoint: SharePoint is a web application platform that provides a centralized collaborative hub for web content management. This includes management of documents, …

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John Colon on Nine Tech Tools That Make Life Easier

4 Comments / Data Visualization and Reporting, Independent Consulting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 2, 2011 June 1, 2011

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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Stacy Carruth on using Wordle to Understand Substance Abuse

4 Comments / Behavioral Health, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 17, 2011 May 9, 2011

My name is Stacy Carruth and I am a Community Health Specialist at a Regional Center for Healthy Communities in Massachusetts. Much of the work we do is supporting community coalitions working on substance abuse prevention. Two communities we work with are funded to reduce fatal and non-fatal opiate overdose, an issue of concern in …

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Susan Kistler on Getting More From Google

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / May 7, 2011 May 7, 2011

Good day! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director and aea365 regular Saturday contributor. Everyone has used Google to search (ok almost everyone) but here are five items I’ve used from Google in the past month that you may not yet know about. Hot Tip: First, in most cases, you’ll need a google account. They are …

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EPE TIG Week: Nick Salafsky on Miradi Adaptive Management Software for Conservation Projects

Leave a Comment / Environmental Program Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 18, 2011 April 10, 2011

My name is Nick Salafsky and I am Co-Director and Co-Founder of Foundations of Success, a nonprofit organization committed to working with practitioners to learn how to do conservation better through the process of adaptive management. My colleagues and I have spent the past two decades helping biodiversity conservation project teams design theories of change …

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Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren on Using Think-aloud Interviewing to Evaluate Web Applications

Leave a Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation, Needs Assessment, Research, Technology and Development Evaluation / April 13, 2011 February 26, 2011

Hello! We are Xin Wang, Neeley Current, and Gary Westergren. We work at the Information Experience Laboratory (IE Lab) of the School of Information Science & Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. The IE lab is a usability laboratory that conducts research and evaluates technology. What is usability? According to Jakob Nielsen’s definition, usability …

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Susan Kistler on Leaving Wordle for Tagxedo

2 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Data Visualization and Reporting, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 9, 2011 March 14, 2012

Good Morning! Susan Kistler here, AEA’s Executive Director. We’ve had a number of posts talking about creating and using word clouds, primarily in terms of creating them through wordle. Word clouds take a set of text and create a cloud of the most frequent words in that text with word size within the cloud based …

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Susan Kistler on Tableau and Users Groups

3 Comments / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / April 2, 2011 April 2, 2011

I’m Susan Kistler, the American Evaluation Association’s Executive Director. I contribute each Saturday’s post to aea365. I’m striving to improve my capacity to use Tableau, a data exploration and visualization tool. I’ve read the manual, watched their video tutorials, will be attending training, and have spent time working with the product on my own. However, …

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CPE Week: Susan Kistler on Sharing Tools for Collaborative, Participatory, and Empowerment Evaluation to Win a copy of Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

20 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 26, 2011 March 25, 2011

Hello wonderful evaluators! I’m Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute (almost) each Saturday’s aea365 post. Today, I wanted to thank our CPE colleagues for great posts this week (and – a preview for tomorrow – a bonus post form Abraham Wandersman) and all the work that they have done to bring together the …

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MNEA Week: Beth Robelia on Using Online Focus Groups

1 Comment / Integrating Technology into Evaluation / March 18, 2011 February 28, 2011

My name is Beth Robelia. I am the proprietor of a micro-business that focuses on STEM education research, curriculum development and program evaluation. In evaluating the effectiveness of social media, the disbursed nature of users may make face-to-face focus groups impractical. Online focus groups can bridge the gap in geography by placing participants in an …

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