Selecting the right analyses for your data: Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods

What are the most effective methods to code and analyze data for a particular study? Selecting the right analyses for your data reviews the selection criteria for coding and analyzing any set of data--whether qualitative, quantitative, mixed, or visual. The authors systematically explain when to use verbal, numerical, graphic, or combined codes, and when to use qualitative, quantitative, graphic, or mixed-methods modes of analysis. -book description

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - Be My Eyes-helping blind see

Be My Eyes is about becoming a member of a community contributing to the independence of people with vision impairments. Blind users can request help and sighted users will be phoned. The caller then points the phone's camera at the object in question to get answers about the object.

Want to learn more? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/be-my-eyes-helping-blind-see/id905177575?mt=8

Digital technology and the elderly

Smashing Magazine, a site that "delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers," offered an interesting article yesterday on designing technology for use with older individuals. The article discusses different types of technology and what works, and what doesn't, for those over the age of 65.

To read the entire article, please visit:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/02/05/designing-digital-technology-for-the-elderly/

Designing teacher evaluation systems

Designing teacher evaluation systems: New guidance from the measures of effective teaching project shares the latest lessons from the MET project. With 15 original studies, some of the field's most preeminent experts tap the MET project's unprecedented collection of data to offer new insights on evaluation methods and the current state of teaching in our schools. - from the book description

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

U.S. Currency Reader Program

Looking for a way to help someone with a vision impairment determine what monetary denominations they have? The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing is offering a free U.S. currency reader to anyone eligible to join the currency reader program. The small device can be programmed with voice, vibrate, or issue tones to let the user know whether they're holding a $1 bill or a different denomination.

To learn more about eligibility requirements and to apply, please visit:
http://bep.gov/images/MA_-_US_Currency_Reader_Application_FF-_English.pdf

Upcoming workshops

Several workshops will be offered/sponsored in the next few weeks by the folks at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. Here's a listing:

Center on Community Living and Careers
Discovering Personal Genius: The Discovery Practice That Yields
Employment Results
February 17, 18 (sold out), or 19th
http://iidc.indiana.edu/styles/iidc/defiles/INSTRC/Regional%20Discovery%20trainings%20flyer.pdf

Center for Education and Lifelong Learning
Introduction to Restorative Practices
February 20
https://indianauniv.ungerboeck.com/prod/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fprod%2femc00%2fregister.aspx%3fOrgCode%3d10%26EvtID%3d6715%26AppCode%3dREG&OrgCode=10&EvtID=6715&DictSeq=47&Lang=*&AppCode=REG&CultureInfo=en-US.

Using Circles Effectively
February 26
https://indianauniv.ungerboeck.com/prod/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fprod%2femc00%2fregister.aspx%3fOrgCode%3d10%26EvtID%3d6714%26AppCode%3dREG&OrgCode=10&EvtID=6714&DictSeq=47&Lang=*&AppCode=REG&CultureInfo=en-US.

Indiana Resource Center for Autism
Autism and Sensory Differences: Strategies for Improving Quality of Life
https://indianauniv.ungerboeck.com/prod/SignIn.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fprod%2femc00%2fregister.aspx%3fOrgCode%3d10%26EvtID%3d6756%26AppCode%3dREG&OrgCode=10&EvtID=6756&SessionID=fc0fc8felfgpfg7ejn&DictSeq=39&Lang=*&AppCode=REG&CultureInfo=en-US

CMS Guidance and Autism Spectrum Disorders
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8759830393365335297

Center on Aging and Community
Memory Bridge Training Retreat
http://www.memorybridge.org/

Mobile App Monday - Visual Budget: Expense Tracking and Budget Management

Looking for a visual budgeting app? With Visual Budget, easily manage your personal and business accounts using powerful, advanced analysis and consolidation features. Assign a budget to every category, and accurately monitor the evolution of your income and expenses.

The application comes with an example account featuring a dozen transactions which will allow you to quickly become familiar with it. 

Want to learn more? Please visit:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/visual-budget-expense-tracking/id458571562?mt=8