Every week he publishes an intriguing search obstacle for readers then provides the answers a few days later. A few years ago he published an obstacle called
Whats In Common? In the years considering that, Ive utilized numerous adjustments of that difficulty to help trainees discover and practice utilizing a range of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to determine the shared qualities of two or more images, occasions, and or circumstances. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonalities in between 3 floods and he asked readers to find the commonness between 3 plants.

What do these two share besides being dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? difficulty is that I can make it as easy or as challenging as I need it to be based on my trainees current ability levels. For instance, I may make one challenge based on reading the content of websites 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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Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then offers the answers a few days later. The obstacles differ in difficulty, but I constantly discover something from them regardless of how difficult they are. A couple of years ago he posted an obstacle called
I might make one difficulty based on reading the content of web pages that students discover while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.

In addition to his blog site, Dan Russell has a great book entitled
The Joy of Search. That book is packed with suggestions for becoming a better users of online search engine..