Be careful, one disadvantage is that search engines very seldom give you just what you want, you still have to weed out a lot of stuff. This is only true in certain instances, it is nowhere as general to using the Internet as you imply. At one sitting, an individual can obtain any and all needed information for a specific topic. Second, I have many times been unable to find what I needed. Books and journals are usually read from front to back in order to gain a complete understanding of what the author is trying to say.
Speeches are linear stories also.
It is difficult to convey information through the written word without linear stories, but it can be done. Scavenger Hunt Also didn't really discuss students creating scavenger hunts, will let slide this time. Be sure to able to do this on midterm. Not only would it reinforce material they have studied together in class, but it would also allow individual students to explore beyond just the information covered in class. They were really not designed for children by the way they were set up.