Reading Time: 6 minutesPost was updated 5/22/2025 Over the years we have seen more and more Mac users in our classes. As long as they followed along in our computer labs or on their own Windows PC, they were fine. But many of them struggled when they got home and began using their own Mac computers. For this […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at Community College of Beaver County. On June 16, 2021, President Joe Biden deemed Juneteenth a federal holiday, which was a monumental day in history. June 19, 1865, also known as Juneteenth in the African American community, is a day of celebration. This marks the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnitre Bell is a College Success Facilitator and Instructor at the Community College of Beaver County Pride Month is officially here. We’ll see stores celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community through merchandise and apparel, brands changing their company logo on social media and campuses across the nation showcasing their school’s celebration of Pride Month. But, while […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn academia, we often encourage our students to make time to relax, but are we listening to our own advice? Teaching is a wonderful and rewarding path, but it also comes with a lot of work. That being said, it is important to take time to relax between semesters. I want to share my four […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesChloe Adamowicz is a Marketing major with an Economics minor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Back on March 15, 2020, a wave of excitement spread across the country: Two whole weeks off from school. What a dream…or so we thought. Our dream soon turned into a nightmare. Two weeks soon turned into two […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBlake Fetty is a lecturer of Spanish at the University of Central Oklahoma Research on testing anxiety shows a clear correlation between test-taking anxiety and lower test scores. In some classes, this anxiety is more apparent than others. As a Spanish teacher, my students’ anxiety is never more visible than right before a speaking […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesChaitali Botcha is a graduate of Texas A&M University and the Central Regional Lead Cengage Student Ambassador. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Medical Science at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Health is wealth. Ralph Waldo Emerson coined this term when he said, “the first wealth is health.” What […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJustin Tumelaire is senior manager of accessibility at Cengage The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative defines accessibility as “websites, tools, and technologies designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them.” Accessibility is about supporting all users that engage with digital content. As much as accessibility is about everyone, it is not achievable […]
