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ELC 064: How to Create Meaning From A Torrent of Information

The eLearning Coach

Every day, we engage in sense-making from a torrent of information. Information is ubiquitous and complex. In this episode, we discuss ways to create understanding from raw information. And we attempt to help others construct meaning in the learning experiences we design and provide.

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Summify – the answer to information overload?

Jane Hart

“Summify distills the social web, boiling down the torrent of daily information into a summary of the top five or ten most important and relevant stories each day.&#. Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks, and delivers it by email and on the web.

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Workday Fires A Cannon Into The HR Technology Market

Josh Bersin on Enterprise Learning

Not only did Jerry Seinfeld remind us that “we’ve lost interest in life, now we’re only interested in battery life,” but Workday unleashed a torrent of new talent applications, many of which are going. And as always, it met expectations.

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Writing & Grammar: Answers to Last Week's Comma Challenge on Compound Sentences Versus Compound Predicates

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

We could see the branches of all the trees in the woods surrounding the house whipping horizontally although the tree trunks were nearly invisible for the torrents of rain. Leaves, twigs, and hail battered the windows while a vicious wind tore at the screens.

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Infographic: The Content Discovery Problem Solved

EdCast

In that 1% of time, employees have to wade through a torrent of materials to hopefully […]. For the average work week, employees have only 1% of time available to focus on development and training, according to research conducted by Bersin by Deloitte.

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The top two reasons why brainstorming sessions fail

OpenSesame

All of a sudden, the team produces a torrent of creative ideas. That’s what many people think they can do with their team when it comes to being creative. Just read the brainstorming directions – voila! That’s just ridiculous! In case you need a reminder of the brainstorming directions, here they are. . Defer judgment.

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Pokémon whoa!

E-Learning Provocateur

Predictably, Pokémon Go has provoked a torrent of criticism from non-players, and I say some of it is warranted. You can also earn ownership of a gym (reminiscent of becoming a mayor in Foursquare) and you can incubate and hatch eggs (reminiscent of the parenting responsibilities for Tamagotchi).