I’m John Nash and I’m the program co-chair, with Stuart Henderson, for the American Evaluation Association’s new Topical Interest Group, Data Visualization and Reporting (DVR TIG). I’m here to tell you about some innovative events taking place in Anaheim during the 2011 AEA Conference.
Hot Tip: Ignite Yourself at the Conference
You don’t need matches or a lighter, just an interest in evaluation and love of a good time.
The DVR TIG is throwing caution to the wind by dispensing with it’s usual business meeting and devoting its meeting slot to Ignite the Night at AEA
What’s Ignite? It’s a presentation event wherein presenters share their personal and professional passions about some aspect of evaluation, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes. That’s right, those slides keep going whether the presenter wants them to or not.
Do you have five minutes to learn something new? Come to the California Ballroom, Section B, at the Hilton Anaheim, Thursday, November 3, at 7:15 PM. We’ll have snacks to eat, networking events between the talks, and a lot of fun. Expect talks from the likes of David Fetterman, Susan Kistler, Chris Lysy and many more.
Hot Tip: You Can Give an Ignite Talk!
Can you be passionate about something for five minutes? Want to share it with the world? Get in touch about giving an Ignite talk at AEA 2011. Contact John Nash at john.nash@uky.edu for more information.
Rad Resources: AEA’s Ignite the Night on the Web
Visit the IgniteAEA website (www.igniteaea.wordpress.com), follow the event on Twitter via @igniteaea, or check in with us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=250608891640443).
Hot Tip: Get Your Slide On
The DVR TIG is running a special pre-conference slide clinic on Tuesday,
Tuesday, November 2 from 6:00-9:00 pm in the Laguna room. Think of it as slideshow triage. Any AEA presenter can bring her or his conference slides to the clinic and get individualized expert advice on layout, design, and aesthetics. The clinic is a way to promote our TIG’s goal of helping evaluators make their data more clear, so that it more useful and usable for audiences. For more information on the slide clinic contact Stephanie Evergreen at stephanie@evergreenevaluation.com.
This contribution is from the aea365 Daily Tips blog, by and for evaluators, from the American Evaluation Association. Please consider contributing – send a note of interest to aea365@eval.org.
I’m excited – how fun! And, what could go wrong in 5 minutes, right?
If you haven’t seen ignite presentations before, here’s a link to a video archive of them http://igniteshow.com/. They originated in the tech field so the ones there tend towards tech but span the gamut.
I’ve been to a couple of ignite events before and they were a great mix of education, humor, networking and je ne sais quoi.
Hope to see you there!