Every week he posts a fascinating search obstacle for readers then supplies the answers a couple of days later on. A few years ago he published a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years because, Ive utilized different modifications of that difficulty to help students discover and practice using a variety of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to determine the shared attributes of two or more pictures, events, and or scenarios. In Dans initial post he asked readers to find the commonness in between 3 floods and he asked readers to discover the commonness between three plants.

What do these two have in typical besides being dogs?

Every week he posts an intriguing search difficulty for readers then offers the responses a couple of days later. The difficulties differ in problem, but I constantly find out something from them regardless of how hard they are. A couple of years ago he published a difficulty called
I might make one difficulty based on checking out the material of web pages that trainees find while searching and make another challenge based on being able to discover and utilize the meta information in images.

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What I like about the
Whats In Common? obstacle is that I can make it as simple or as difficult as I need it to be based upon my students existing skill levels. I may make one difficulty based on checking out the material of web pages that students find while browsing and make another obstacle based on being able to discover and utilize the meta information in images.

In addition to his blog site, Dan Russell has a terrific book titled
The Joy of Search. That book is packed with pointers for becoming a much better users of search engines..