Webpage for The Daedalus Group
DIWE is a software program containing several modules in which students can, among other things, enter responses to programmed prompts, type responses to one another in real-time exchange, share their work online, and send mail. Material generated by groups or individuals can be printed out by the students. The modules include:
Invent, which is designed to facilitate prewriting,
brainstorming, and the definition of key terms; Respond, in which
students respond to their own papers, their classmates' papers, or the
assigned reading;
Interchange, which is a real-time chat room in
which students can write back and forth in small groups in order to discuss
drafts of papers, assigned questions, or self-generated topics. A transcript
of the exchange can be printed out for use in class or out. Interchange
can also be used as a bulletin board (instead of Lite News or the Notes
program).
GOALS FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED WRITING INSTRUCTION
Garland Lab sessions aim to accomplish one or more of the following goals:
--Add the stability and carefulness of written discourse to the dynamic of classroom exchange.
--Provide students and instructors with an instrument for informal, written communication.
--Improve the quality of student invention, drafting, and revision.
--Create alternate means by which students may work in small groups and receive quick and detailed feedback from instructors and peers.
--Establish an interactive classroom environment that enhances the process-based approach to writing.
--Encourage active learning.
--Prepare students for lifelong writing and learning in an information society.
--Make students write more.
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