Every week he posts an interesting search obstacle for readers then provides the answers a couple of days later. A few years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive utilized different adjustments of that challenge to help trainees discover and practice utilizing a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to identify the shared attributes of two or more pictures, events, and or circumstances. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonalities in between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonness in between three plants.

What do these two share besides being pets?

Every week he publishes an interesting search obstacle for readers then offers the responses a few days later on. The challenges differ in difficulty, but I always find out something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A few years ago he posted an obstacle called
I might make one difficulty based on reading the material of websites that trainees discover while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to find and use the meta data in images.

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as difficult as I require it to be based upon my students existing skill levels. For example, I may make one obstacle based upon reading the content of web pages that students discover while searching and make another obstacle based upon having the ability to discover and utilize the meta data in images.

In addition to his blog site, Dan Russell has an excellent book entitled
The Joy of Search. That book is packed with pointers for ending up being a better users of search engines..

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