DIWE-Telecollaboration Program

Telecollaboration Program

I just read about a program called DIWE, which stands for Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment. DIWE is a perfect collaborative tool that helps learners to develop their skills in writing and critical thinking. The software includes six primary features:

Invent: This feature of the software leads the students step by step in their first progress of their writing process.

Write: This feature of the software is a word processor that has a spell checking feature. It will help students to write and correct their essays.

Respond: This feature of the software helps learners to give an appropriate feedback to their classmates or peers displaying a writer’s draft and guiding the reviewer.

Mail: This feature gives the student the opportunity to communicate with public messages (to the entire class) or privates messages (to one classmate). CMC is fundamental for collaborative learning.

InterChange®: This feature of the software is great for collaboration projects because allows students share their opinions, talk, listen, review essays, and discussions on the topics, among others, since InterChange is a real-time conferencing program.

BiblioCite®: This feature helps students to write all the sources that they are using in their projects or essays in a properly formatted MLA Works Cited and APA References pages.

DIWE can be ideal for Foreign Language classrooms since it has the feature of spell checking in various languages (Spanish, French, and German) and a thesaurus.