What’s in Common? – A Search Lesson

Dan Russell has actually offered the motivation for a number of the web research study lessons that I have carried out with students throughout the years. Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then supplies the answers a few days later on. The difficulties differ in problem, however I always find out something from them no matter how challenging they are. A couple of years ago he published a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years because, Ive used various modifications of that obstacle to help students find and practice using a variety of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to identify the shared attributes of two or more photos, occasions, and or scenarios. In Dans original post he asked readers to discover the commonness between three floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities in between three plants.

What do these two share besides being dogs?

Every week he publishes an intriguing search obstacle for readers then provides the answers a few days later. The obstacles differ in problem, but I always find out something from them regardless of how tough they are. A couple of years ago he posted a challenge called
I may make one obstacle based on reading the content of websites that trainees find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and use the meta information in images.

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as difficult as I need it to be based on my students current skill levels. For example, I may make one difficulty based upon checking out the material of webpages that students discover while searching and make another difficulty based on being able to discover and use the meta data in images.

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

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