Every week he publishes an interesting search challenge for readers then offers the answers a couple of days later. A few years ago he posted a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive used different adjustments of that difficulty to help trainees find and practice making use of a range of search tools and methods.
The Whats In Common? difficulty asks you to determine the shared characteristics of 2 or more images, events, and or circumstances. In Dans initial post he asked readers to discover the commonalities in between 3 floods and he asked readers to discover the commonness between three plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being pets?

Every week he publishes an interesting search challenge for readers then provides the answers a couple of days later. The obstacles differ in problem, but I always find out something from them regardless of how challenging they are. A couple of years ago he published an obstacle called
I might make one obstacle based on reading the content of web pages that trainees discover while searching and make another difficulty based on being able to find and use the meta data 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 becoming a better users of online search engine..

If you see it elsewhere, it has been utilized without permission. Websites that steal my (Richard Byrnes) work include CloudComputin and WayBetterSite.

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as easy or as tough as I require it to be based on my students present ability levels. For example, I might make one challenge based on reading the content of websites that trainees discover while browsing and make another obstacle based upon having the ability to discover and use the meta data in images.