Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Goal: This activity is designed to help students become more familiar with the way virtual teams are being used in today's workplace.

Instructions: With the advancement of information technologies, more and more businesses are using virtual teams to overcome great geographical distances, and take advantages of the economic benefits this type of work structure offers. Your task is to go to the following web page <www.knowab.co.uk/wbwpapers.html> and read any of the articles that are linked to this page. You need to identify some aspect about virtual teams that we have not already discussed and be prepared to share your findings with the rest of the class.

Exercise 2

Goal: This activity is designed to provide students with an opportunity to work in groups and perform a task common to problem solving teams in order to acquire skills that will help future group work be more productive.

Instructions: Your task is to work in a group with four others and conduct a brainstorming session on how you can correct the nagging parking problems on university campuses. In order to help make your session effective, you need to follow the criteria on running a brainstorming session from AdCrackers.com <www.adcracker.com/adnauseam/17-0-1.htm>. After the session, evaluate the advice given on this web page regarding how to run an effective brainstorming session. Think about the strengths and weaknesses of this format. Would you do anything differently?