Dan Russell has actually supplied the motivation for a lot of the web research study lessons that I have conducted with trainees for many years. Weekly he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the answers a few days later on. The obstacles vary in trouble, but I always learn something from them no matter how hard they are. A couple of years ago he published an obstacle called
Whats In Common? In the years considering that, Ive used numerous modifications of that obstacle to help trainees find and practice making use of a variety of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to determine the shared qualities of two or more pictures, occasions, and or scenarios. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonness in between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonness between 3 plants.

What do these 2 have in common besides being pet dogs?

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

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

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Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as tough as I need it to be based on my trainees existing ability levels. I may make one challenge based on checking out the material of webpages that trainees find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and utilize the meta information in images.