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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.

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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Essay Writing, Word and Criterion

The 6th Grade students wrote an essay in Word that they later uploaded to Criterion. Criterion is a web-based software that maintains student writing portfolios and evaluates individual submissions that the students make. The Criterion software can analyze writing characteristics such as sentence structure, word choice, grammatical conventions and of course, spelling. Every middle school student has an account.

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