Dr. Chi Yan Lam is a Credentialed Evaluator and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of evaluation at the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen’s University; he is also a full-time evaluator practicing in public service. He specializes in evaluating large-scale, complex programs and incorporates multi-, mixed- and design methods in his evaluations to answer questions of importance to program administrators and policy makers working on educational and social programs. His articles on evaluation have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Evaluation and the Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation. He has been a holder of the professional designation in evaluation since 2014.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. – Issac Asimov
Well, here are some photo highlights from day one of AEA 2012. I was an AEA volunteer photographer for that evening. It’s always neat to go from one place to another, exploring all the nooks and crannies, while on “official business”. It’s a lot like doing ethnographic research, only with less stake and perhaps more fun! Typically, I shoot with a dSLR for event photography. Because of air travel/customs, I defaulted back on to my five-year-old point-and-shoot. Not my favourite toy in my bag of goodies, but certainly did the trick!
To innovate is to ask critical questions, critically.
To quote Steve Jobs, innovation is about thinking different. It is a categorically different function and exercise from all others a person or an organization may engage. One must commit to change and be open-hearted and genuine about its unfolding process and outcome.
It is about seeing the world in a different light. In trying to move from a place of the world-that-is to a world-to-be, one of the critical functions of any innovation process is to ask critical questions, and to engage in this exercise critically. For those of us who work in the human services, this means questioning the assumptions people hold and surfacing the values that underpin their actions.
Dr. Chi Yan Lam 