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Sheila B Robinson on a new p2i tool: The Audience Engagement Workbook!

3 Comments / Uncategorized / September 20, 2014

Hello! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. Evaluation is my newer career. I’m actually an educator, having taught in K12 schools and at a university. I’m also a professional developer, having provided PD courses, workshops, coaching, and mentoring to educators and evaluators for more than 15 years, so I’m no stranger to …

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YFE Week: Felicia Sullivan on Exploring Game Analytics

5 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

My name is Felicia Sullivan and I research youth civic engagement at the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), a non-partisan research center at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Citizenship & Public Service. Building youth-focused evaluation strategies and working with practitioners are important ways CIRCLE links academic research to what …

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YFE Week: Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda on Using Participatory Video to Engage Youth in Evaluation in a Creative and Empowering Way

3 Comments / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

We are Julie Poncelet, Catherine Borgman-Arboleda, and Jorge Arboleda of Action Evaluation Collaborative, independent consultants who use evaluation to strengthen social change. We want to share our experiences using participatory video (PV) in evaluations with youth. PV is a dynamic, powerful approach whereby youth use video to capture everything from their stories of change to …

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YFE Week: Jessica Jerney on Coaching Youth Workers in Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hello, this is Jessica Jerney from the Extension Center for Youth Development at the University of Minnesota. I recently served as Project Coordinator for the Innovations on Youth Roles in Evaluation and Assessment project. This initiative included a learning cohort, symposia speakers’ series (featuring Kim Sabo Flores and Katie Richards-Schuster), and applied research. As a …

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YFE Week: Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates on Practical Tools for a Youth Research Camp

1 Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hi, we are Anne Gleason and Miranda Yates from the Program Evaluation and Planning Department at Good Shepherd Services in New York City and we would like to share some tools we put together for a youth research camp. Two summers ago, we partnered with youth in one of our afterschool programs to conduct research …

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YFE Week: Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins, and Saili Willis on Creative Ways to Solicit Youth Feedback

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Our names are Jessica Manta-Meyer, Jocelyn Atkins and Saili Willis and we are evaluators at Public Profit, an evaluation firm with a special focus on out-of-school time programs for youth. We usually evaluate networks of after school programs as a whole (some of which serve more than 20,000 youth, where a survey is indeed one …

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YFE Week: Kim Sabo Flores and David White on New Perspectives and Voices in Youth Focused Evaluation

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hello, my name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am David White. We are honored to serve as co-chairs of the Youth Focused Evaluation Topical Interest Group (YFE TIG). As we prepare for the 2014 conference and our annual business meeting, we have to acknowledge how truly remarkable it is that a loosely knit group …

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Sheila B Robinson on Learning at the Beach with MOOCs

5 Comments / Uncategorized / September 13, 2014

Hi! I’m Sheila B Robinson, aea365’s Lead Curator and sometimes Saturday contributor. While I cringe at describing myself with the heavily clichéd “lifelong learner,” I’m afraid it’s all too accurate. In fact, when I dream of winning the lottery I don’t think about whiling away my days on a beach reading cheesy novels, but rather sitting in …

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Susan Kistler on Padlet: A Free Virtual Bulletin Board and Brainstorming Tool

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / September 11, 2014

Hello aea365ers! I’m Susan Kistler, Executive Director Emeritus of the American Evaluation Association, professional trainer and editor, and all around gregarious gal. Email me at susan@thesmarterone.com if you wish to get in touch. Rad Resource – Padlet: The last time I wrote about Padlet for aea365, exactly two years ago on September 12 of 2012, …

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Samantha Grant on Baby Steps to Building Capacity

Leave a Comment / Youth Focused Evaluation / September 10, 2014

Hi, I’m Samantha Grant, and I work for the University of Minnesota Extension as a Program Evaluator for the Center for Youth Development. As an internal evaluator, building evaluation capacity is crucial for my organization (and my mental health!) Building capacity doesn’t happen overnight, but with a few tactical strategies, you will be on your …

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