What’s in Common? – A Search Lesson

Dan Russell has actually offered the motivation for a number of the web research lessons that I have actually performed with trainees over the years. Every week he posts an interesting search challenge for readers then offers the answers a few days later. The obstacles differ in trouble, but I always discover something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A couple of years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive utilized various modifications of that obstacle to help students find and practice using a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to identify the shared attributes of two or more images, events, and or circumstances. In Dans original post he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonalities between 3 plants.

What do these two share besides being pet dogs?

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What I like about the
Whats In Common? obstacle is that I can make it as easy or as difficult as I require it to be based on my students present skill levels. I might make one difficulty based on reading the material of webpages that students find while browsing and make another difficulty based on being able to discover and use the meta data in images.

Every week he publishes an interesting search obstacle for readers then supplies the responses a few days later on. The obstacles differ in problem, but I constantly discover 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 webpages that students discover while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to find and use the meta information in images.

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

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