Web Hunt

• Time: 15-20 minutes

Give them a question to research and find resources about. Ask them to look in places like:

• their organization’s internal wiki or documentation repository
• Wikipedia or another website with lots of good reference materials
• Their own personal browsing history

Practicalities

Work individually or in pairs. Give them an online document to share links to materials they find. After 5-10 minutes of searching, spend another 5-10 minutes having each group show what they found. You could organize the materials into different categories or highlight materials which you think are particularly useful.

Benefits

You find out where they usually go for information and what kinds of things they already know about. They get reminded that they already know about the topic and/or have places they know to look and/or colleagues who know where to look.