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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, October 30, 2008

Language Arts and Criterion

The 7th Grade Language Arts students have come to the lab on three occasions to write responses to teacher prompts that are loaded into Criterion, an online writing evaluation software. Sometimes students are given just the class to write and other times they are given several chances to resubmit their work for a higher score.

This is an example of the essay already evaluated by Criterion.


This is an example fo the type of feedback that Criterion can give a student or teacher. If the student follows these suggestions, he or she may raise their score.