Hello! I am Hannah Patterson, the Evaluation Manager at Camp Fire National Headquarters. Camp Fire National Headquarters has embarked on an initiative with the goal of ensuring that all youth participating in overnight camp feel welcome, emotionally affirmed and physically comfortable. Our evaluations for this project centered on empowering youth to share their own program …
Hello AEA365 community! I am Zoraya Cruz-Bonilla, Data Research Analyst in the Office of Student Affairs Assessment at Binghamton University. Before the onset of the pandemic, I had been thinking about data visualization for the blind or vision impaired. Indisputably, applying the common practice of adding image captions to data visualizations is a great …
Hi, I am Don Glass, a DC-based developmental evaluator, learning designer, and proud member of the Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations TIG. COVID-19 has increased our reliance on- and maybe fast-tracked- our use of digital and online communication to serve our diverse evaluation clients and audiences. This is an opportunity to push our evaluation communication design …
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Hello, my name is Stacy Leggett, and I am a professor at Western Kentucky University. I also serve on the Consortium for Research on Educational Assessment and Teacher Effectiveness (CREATE) Board. I work with educational leaders primarily in Kentucky. In evaluating and writing reports to be posted on the web, I have learned some lessons …
CREATE Week: Creating Evaluation Reports that are 508 Compliant by Stacy Leggett Read More »
Greetings! Caitlyn A. Bukaty here sharing some exciting insights with you during Disabilities and Underrepresented Populations Topical Interest Group week. Today I want to offer a few ideas my fellow evaluators might find helpful in making their evaluations more accessible to a wide range of stakeholders. This information comes from my experience collecting feedback from …
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Greetings! We are Della Thomas and Marcia Kolvitz. Della works with local school districts to providing language access services to students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Marcia is an educational consultant who focuses on professional development in the areas of transition planning and postsecondary opportunities for students and youth who are deaf or …
Happy Saturday all! Liz Zadnik here, aea365 Outreach Coordinator and sometime Saturday contributor. Summer has arrived on the East Coast of the United States. For me, summer has always encouraged me to check in with myself and take some time to reorganize and recalibrate. Like time slows down a little and I have few more …
How mindful language helps us challenge power imbalances by Liz Zadnik Read More »
Hello. I am Angie Aguirre from the INDEX program of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. INDEX specializes in designing web sites, online courses, learning-management systems, and online databases, all of which are accessible to people with disabilities. Many of you are developing the same as part of your …
Angie Aguirre on Making Your Webinar Accessible Read More »
What a way to wrap up July! Liz Zadnik here with some additional thoughts on accessibility – specifically how we can create learning opportunities that are inclusive and accessible to as many people as possible. We’re often tasked with sharing our research and evaluation findings with others – how can we make sure as many …
Liz Zadnik on More fun with accessibility! Read More »
Happy holiday weekend everyone! I’m Liz Zadnik, AEA365 Outreach Coordinator with another post on accessibility – today we’ll be focusing on web accessibility. We can build off of the concepts in last month’s post, while also thinking about how to make sure as many people as possible can access our online content. In addition to …
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