Every week he publishes a fascinating search difficulty for readers then supplies the responses a couple of days later. A couple of years ago he posted a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive utilized different modifications of that obstacle to help students discover and practice using a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? difficulty asks you to determine the shared characteristics of two or more pictures, events, and or situations. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonalities in between three floods and he asked readers to discover the commonalities between 3 plants.

What do these two share besides being pet dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? difficulty is that I can make it as simple or as challenging as I need it to be based upon my students existing skill levels. For instance, I may make one difficulty based on reading the content of websites that students discover while browsing and make another challenge based on being able to discover and use the meta data in images.

Every week he publishes a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a couple of days later on. The difficulties differ in problem, but I constantly learn something from them regardless of how tough they are. A couple of years ago he posted a difficulty called
I may make one difficulty based on checking out the content of websites that students discover while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.

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