This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 3 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 3 / […]
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This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 2 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 2 / […]
This is another post in my series on developing my Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers class as an online course for this fall. The series begins with Part 1. This is “Chapter” 1 of the interactive and experiential OER I will develop with my students this fall. This will likely be module 1 / […]
This is the second in a series of think-aloud posts on Transitioning to Online Teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1 is here. The course I teach is called Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers. Overview of Content I am planning to write an interactive, experiential book with my students this Fall 2020 semester. I […]
It’s been a while since I’ve been moved to post publicly about my work. I’m feeling so moved. This series will a think-out-loud version of the transition of the course I teach every semester, Adolescent and Youth Development for Youthworkers, from an in-person course to a fully online course during the COVID-19 crisis. I feel […]
I’m giving a presentation today on the topic of data in collective impact strategies at the Data Power Conference in Sheffield, UK. You can view the slides on Google Slides. Here’s the abstract: Collective impact strategies bring together nonprofit organizations and governments in a structured way to move the needle on social issues using shared […]
Ethics and Data Use
On March 16, 2015, I will host a workshop in Saint Paul, Minnesota that introduces social workers to thinking about ethics and data. As with last year, I decided to make the materials for this workshop open to anyone who wants them. I believe we do a lot more learning when we create knowledge with […]
Darnit, Data Munging
As I’ve continued my data analysis/visualization journey, I’ve bumped into the problem of “data munging.” This goes by various names, including wrangling, tidying, and cleaning. It’s commonly viewed as a major pain in the ass. That’s because, in many ways, it is. The last few weeks I’ve been working on a project to visualize the […]
If you haven’t used Qualtrics for surveys before, I highly recommend it. The University of Minnesota maintains a contract with the company and we have access to use it for free. It’s by far the most robust survey software I’ve ever used. Today I needed to do some visualizations within Qualtrics for a client, based […]
This is the first in a series of posts about browser-based data manipulation and visualization. Anyone hoping to jump on the web data visualization bandwagon is likely immediately intimidated when they start trying to figure out the nitty gritty of how to get various visualization libraries to work. Some like D3 and Google Charts have […]