Dan Russell has supplied the motivation for many of the web research lessons that I have actually carried out with students throughout the years. Weekly he posts an intriguing search challenge for readers then provides the answers a few days later. The challenges vary in trouble, but I always find out something from them regardless of how hard they are. A few years ago he posted an obstacle called
Whats In Common? In the years because, Ive used different modifications of that difficulty to help trainees find and practice using a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to identify the shared characteristics of two or more photos, occasions, and or circumstances. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonalities between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities between three plants.

What do these 2 share besides being pet dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? obstacle is that I can make it as easy or as challenging as I require it to be based upon my trainees present skill levels. For instance, I may make one difficulty based on checking out the material of webpages that students find while browsing and make another difficulty based on being able to find and utilize the meta data in images.

Every week he posts an intriguing search difficulty for readers then provides the answers a couple of days later on. The obstacles vary in trouble, however I always discover something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he posted a difficulty called
I might make one obstacle based on checking out the material of websites that trainees discover while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and use the meta information in images.

In addition to his blog site, Dan Russell has an excellent book titled
The Joy of Search. That book is loaded with pointers for ending up being a much better users of online search engine..

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