Every week he publishes an interesting search challenge for readers then supplies the answers a few days later on. A few years ago he published a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years given that, Ive used different adjustments of that difficulty to help trainees discover and practice using a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to recognize the shared characteristics of 2 or more pictures, events, and or situations. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonness in between three plants.

What do these two have in common besides being canines?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as easy or as hard as I require it to be based upon my students current ability levels. I may make one obstacle based on reading the content of webpages that students find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and utilize the meta information in images.

Every week he publishes an interesting search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a couple of days later. The obstacles differ in trouble, however I always learn something from them regardless of how hard they are. A few years ago he posted a challenge called
I might make one obstacle based on checking out the content of websites that students discover while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and use the meta data in images.

In addition to his blog, Dan Russell has a great book titled
The Joy of Search. That book is packed with tips for ending up being a better users of online search engine..

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