Dan Russell has offered the inspiration for a lot of the web research study lessons that I have performed with trainees over the years. Weekly he publishes an interesting search difficulty for readers then provides the answers a few days later on. The obstacles differ in problem, but I constantly discover something from them regardless of how hard they are. A few years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years because, Ive utilized different adjustments of that obstacle to help trainees find and practice utilizing a variety of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to identify the shared qualities of two or more photos, events, and or situations. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonness in between three floods and he asked readers to discover the commonalities between three plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being dogs?

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

Every week he posts an interesting search difficulty for readers then offers the answers a few days later on. The challenges vary in trouble, but I constantly discover something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he posted an obstacle called
I might make one obstacle based on reading the content of web pages that trainees discover while searching and make another challenge based on being able to find and utilize the meta data in images.

In addition to his blog, Dan Russell has a great book entitled
The Joy of Search. That book is loaded with ideas for ending up being a better users of search engines..