Every week he publishes an intriguing search difficulty for readers then offers the answers a couple of days later on. A couple of years ago he posted a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years considering that, Ive used various adjustments of that challenge to help trainees find and practice using a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to determine the shared characteristics of two or more photos, occasions, and or circumstances. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonness between 3 floods and he asked readers to discover the commonness between three plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being pet dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as challenging as I need it to be based on my students current skill levels. For instance, I might make one obstacle based upon reading the material of websites that trainees find while searching and make another challenge based upon being able to discover and utilize the meta information in images.

Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a couple of days later on. The difficulties differ in problem, but I always find out something from them regardless of how difficult they are. A few years ago he posted a challenge called
I might make one challenge based on checking out the content of webpages that students discover while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and utilize the meta data in images.

In addition to his blog, Dan Russell has a fantastic book titled
The Joy of Search. That book is loaded with suggestions for becoming a much better users of online search engine..

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