Dan Russell has actually offered the inspiration for many of the web research lessons that I have actually conducted with students for many years. Every week he posts an interesting search obstacle for readers then supplies the answers a couple of days later on. The challenges vary in trouble, but I always find out something from them no matter how difficult they are. A couple of years ago he published a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive utilized various modifications of that challenge to help students discover and practice using a range of search tools and methods.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to recognize the shared characteristics of two or more pictures, events, and or scenarios. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonness in between three floods and he asked readers to discover the commonalities between three plants.

What do these two have in common besides being canines?

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What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as easy or as hard as I require it to be based upon my trainees current skill levels. For instance, I may make one challenge based upon reading the material of webpages that trainees discover while browsing and make another difficulty based upon being able to find and utilize the meta data in images.

Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then provides the responses a few days later. The difficulties differ in trouble, but I always discover something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he posted an obstacle called
I may make one difficulty based on reading the material of web pages that trainees find while searching and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.

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