First, InterChange is ideal for brainstorming and idea generation. When using InterChange, students think on their feet and overcome inhibitions about self-expression. InterChange helps students share their thoughts, emotions, experiences, and memories in an impromptu environment, and encourages them to supress the internal critic that can often limit classroom discussions. Considerations for revision and editing are temporarily set aside as writers enthusiastically wrangle with politics, social issues, theoretical abstractions, others' experiences, and so on.
Students pose and answer questions and bring personal experiences to bear on academic issues.
InterChange provides a different and perhaps more immediate means for student communication. Ideas must be supported by fact, as the vagueness becomes much more apparent in a purely written environment where the classroom dynamics of personality and bullying which may affect classroom oral discussions are at least downplayed. The electronic environment offers a flatter affective angle, which takes the steam out of emotional assertions and forces the idea of logical proof for all assertions. Students thus see the potency of their ideas in a safe environment of peers. In joining this kind of public discourse, writing students discover the potency of their words and ideas as they maintain a conversation with fellow students and authors.