Every week he publishes a fascinating search obstacle for readers then offers the answers a couple of days later. A couple of years ago he published a challenge called
Whats In Common? In the years given that, Ive used various adjustments of that challenge to help trainees discover and practice using a range of search tools and techniques.
The Whats In Common? obstacle asks you to determine the shared qualities of 2 or more photos, occasions, and or situations. In Dans original post he asked readers to find the commonalities between three floods and he asked readers to discover the commonalities between three plants.

What do these 2 have in typical besides being dogs?

Every week he posts a fascinating search challenge for readers then supplies the answers a couple of days later. The obstacles differ in problem, but I constantly discover something from them regardless of how tough they are. A few years ago he posted a difficulty called
I might make one obstacle based on reading the material of web pages that trainees find while searching and make another difficulty based on being able to find and utilize the meta information in images.

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as easy or as hard as I need it to be based upon my trainees existing ability levels. For example, I might make one challenge based on checking out the content of websites that students find while searching and make another obstacle based on having the ability to discover and utilize the meta data in images.

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

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