Dan Russell has actually offered the inspiration for a lot of the web research lessons that I have conducted with students over the years. Every week he posts an interesting search challenge for readers then supplies the responses a couple of days later on. The challenges differ in trouble, however I constantly find out something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years given that, Ive used various adjustments of that challenge to assist students find and practice using a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to determine the shared characteristics of two or more images, events, and or scenarios. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonness between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 plants.

What do these two share besides being canines?

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 example, I might make one difficulty based on reading the content of web pages that students discover while searching and make another difficulty based on having the ability to discover and use the meta data in images.

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

Every week he posts an intriguing search challenge for readers then supplies the responses a couple of days later on. The challenges differ in trouble, but I always find out something from them regardless of how tough they are. A few years ago he posted an obstacle called
I might make one challenge based on checking out the material of websites that students find while searching and make another challenge based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.