Date and time: Thursday 20 February 2025, 4.30- 5.30pm ACDT
Topic: Harnessing the power of interactive ArcGIS StoryMaps to tell engaging stories in your evaluation
Location: online via zoom, details will be shared just prior to the event
Presenter: Susan Rooney-Harding, The Story Catchers
Register online by: Wednesday 19 February, 2025

Event overview:

Visual story telling is becoming better known in the evaluation space. The Story Catchers have been using visual story telling for qualitative evaluation and reporting purposes for many years. New technology has resulted in new tools and this includes the new product, ArcGIS StoryMaps.
ArcGIS StoryMaps combine maps, 3D scenes, embedded content, multimedia such as images and video reports, and more into an interactive narrative that can create awareness and affect change in our reporting process.

Learn how Susan uses and creates digital stories and other information relevant to the evaluation and incorporates them into the geographic information system (GIS). We will also explore how we organise the stories and briefings into collections and customise them with themes in an online interactive reporting process.

Presenter details:

Susan founded The Story Catchers - Stories for Purpose (2012) and co-created a methodology that uses documentary film and community participatory approaches in human-centred design, monitoring, evaluation, social impact measurement and reporting. This methodology supports communities in telling and sharing their stories and assists evaluators in understanding the complexities of community conditions of well-being and qualitatively assessing specific aspects of well-being. This methodology enhances the individual and collective voice and empowers communities to actively co-create and evaluate their projects and programs.
Susan has been using this approach to evaluation for over a decade, focusing on program design, development, evaluation, and reporting of various programs across Australia. We have worked in the areas of health, education, employment, energy, mining, and human service delivery for Local, State, and Federal Government organisations and NGOs.
The stories are utilised to assist in analysing the narrative data and create documentary reports (docu-video reports) accompanying the written reports. Our storytelling products create a more accessible and inclusive report delivery method for all audiences

This is a free event organised & hosted by the South Australian Regional Network of the AES. Our seminar series provides an opportunity for you to meet with AES members and others in the evaluation community and to share and learn from the experiences of fellow evaluators.

Please ensure you have access to your email address to receive the zoom details. Please also check your email address is correct on your registration form before submitting.

If this seminar will be recorded it will be available on the AES YouTube channel approximately four weeks after the date. We suggest you subscribe to the AES YouTube channel to be notified when new recordings are added. 

Seminar start times

• SA: 4.30pm

• NT: 3.30pm

• VIC, NSW, ACT, TAS: 5.00pm

• QLD: 4.00pm

• WA: 2.00pm

• New Zealand: 7.00pm

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