Dan Russell has supplied the motivation for many of the web research lessons that I have actually conducted with trainees for many years. Each week he publishes an interesting search obstacle for readers then offers the responses a couple of days later on. The obstacles vary in problem, but I always learn something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A few years ago he posted a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive used numerous modifications of that obstacle to assist trainees discover and practice using a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to recognize the shared qualities of 2 or more images, events, and or scenarios. In Dans original post he asked readers to discover the commonness in between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonness in between 3 plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being dogs?

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 require it to be based on my trainees current skill levels. For example, I may make one challenge based upon reading the material of web pages that students find while searching and make another difficulty based upon being able to discover and use the meta data in images.

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

Every week he publishes a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a few days later. The challenges vary in difficulty, however I always discover something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A few years ago he published a challenge called
I might make one challenge based on checking out the material of web pages that students find while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta data in images.