Every week he publishes an interesting search obstacle for readers then offers the responses a few days later. A couple of years ago he posted a difficulty called
Whats In Common? In the years since, Ive used various modifications of that difficulty to help trainees find and practice using a variety of search tools and strategies.
The Whats In Common? challenge asks you to identify the shared qualities of 2 or more pictures, events, 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 in between 3 plants.

What do these two have in common besides being dogs?

Applications for Education
What I like about the
Whats In Common? challenge is that I can make it as simple or as hard as I require it to be based upon my students present skill levels. For example, I might make one challenge based on reading the material of web pages that trainees find while searching and make another obstacle based upon having the ability to discover and use 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 ideas for becoming a better users of search engines..

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Every week he posts an interesting search difficulty for readers then supplies the responses a couple of days later. The challenges differ in trouble, but I constantly discover something from them regardless of how hard they are. A few years ago he posted an obstacle called
I may make one challenge based on reading the content of websites that trainees find while browsing and make another challenge based on being able to find and use the meta information in images.