Hello! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. A short time ago, Nicole Vicinanza, a member of the AEA board, challenged aea365 readers to comment on this post and share whether they consider AEA their “professional home” and how they connect with AEA. As there was a gift certificate at stake for …
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My name is Girija Kaimal and I am an Assistant Professor at Drexel University. Several evaluations I have done lately have been conducted remotely. Long distance evaluations can result from a range of reasons: modest program budgets, location independence of the initiatives as well as, short turnaround times that preclude travel and on-site data collection. …
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I’m Kylie Hutchinson, independent evaluator and owner of Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation (www.communitysolutions.ca) and regular Tweeter @EvaluationMaven. Every year I adapt a Christmas carol to share with my colleagues and clients. This will be my third year sharing it with AEA365. Rad Resource: This year the use of systems in evaluation really resonated with …
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Hello! I am Laura Beals and I am an internal evaluator at Jewish Family and Children’s Service (JF&CS). JF&CS is a large nonprofit social service agency located just outside of Boston, MA. As our programs span a range of areas—parents and children, people with disabilities and mental illness, community services, and seniors—I often need to …
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Greetings from Canada! My name is Chi Yan Lam (@chiyanlam) and I am a PhD student working in the areas of educational assessment and program evaluation at Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario. You are probably already familiar with legitimate uses of Twitter, LinkedIn, or Facebook in relation to evaluation learning, but have you thought about …
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Season’s Greetings! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, educator and educational evaluator. I work for Greece Central School District by day, and University of Rochester by night. I’m also Lead Curator for aea365. Not surprisingly, I already got a great holiday gift – some time off from two of the three jobs (guess which two?)! I love …
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Have you ever Googled something and noticed a photo that has made its way into the search page (see fig. a)? This is a recent Google + feature called Authorship – a neat tool that allows Google + users to have their profile photo appear alongside search results for their blog posts. Not only does this create a link between your blog content and your Google + profile, but it also can increase the likelihood that someone clicks the link to your blog post via search results (by as much as 150%, by some sources), no small feat!
Since its conception, Twitter has seen dozens of third party applications sprout up to make new features and functionalities available to users. While these apps (such as Hootsuite, Tweetdeck, Buffer and others), do offer new and interesting toolsets in the way of Twitter monitoring and publishing, many of these features are available in the vanilla (basic) Twitter client. For today’s Saturday AEA365 post, we’ll cover a couple of quick hit Twitter tips on how to use these standard tools to unlock useful features and find new connections.
Hi! I’m Sheila B. Robinson, aea365 Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. We all know (I hope!) the four basic Program Evaluation Standards – utility feasibility, propriety, and accuracy. Not familiar? You may want to start by reading this. These standards sound simple enough, right? Wrong! Turns out, there is a lot to know in …
Hi! I’m Mallory Johnson, an Evaluation Specialist with the UC Davis Schools of Health Evaluation Unit. Have you been frustrated by webpages that allow you to view data in a browser, but don’t have export or download functions? Government websites in particular often post useful evaluation information in useless formats. After all, that table is …
