My Tips to Help Students With Mental Health in College

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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 […]

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The Importance of Accessible Educational Materials

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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 […]

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My Favorite MindTap Feature: Bongo for Speaking Assessments

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Reading Time: 5 minutesJennifer Rogers is the Foreign Language Coordinator and an instructor of Spanish at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, MO   I am a longtime user of MindTap for World Languages. As new features and functionalities are added to the platform, I’m always excited to try them in my classes. One of my favorite tools […]

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Supporting Your World Language Students With Communication Activities in MindTap

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Reading Time: 4 minutesCybele Beckham is the marketing manager for World Languages at Cengage. She’s passionate about language learning and eager to give students the opportunity to practice their communication skills.   Speaking is the most challenging skill for Intro Spanish and French students. To help your students in their Intro Spanish and French courses overcome nerves and […]

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Teacher Appreciation Week 2023: Thank You for My Favorite Class

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Reading Time: 14 minutesColleen Zajac is a Senior Copywriter at Cengage with a zest for learning. She loves rock climbing, mountain biking and coffee—not necessarily in that order.   What are the qualities of a great teacher? Most of us can’t forget the instructor who taught our favorite class. The one who got the lessons to stick. That […]

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Tips for College Freshmen From an Upperclassman

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Reading Time: 4 minutesJulia Simonyan is a junior at San Jose State University   Starting college fresh out of high school can seem scary and nerve-wracking. It’s okay for students to feel that way because college life can be confusing to navigate. As a young freshman back in 2019, I wasn’t exactly prepared for what I was getting […]

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How to Use Conversifi in Your World Languages Course

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Reading Time: 2 minutesKajsa Larson is a Cengage faculty partner and associate professor of Spanish at Northern Kentucky University   No matter how you’re delivering your World Language class, it’s essential that students have low-stakes opportunities for conversation to sharpen their listening and speaking skills. But for a fully online, asynchronous course, this can be a challenge. So, […]

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4 Ways to Be Digitally Sustainable in the Classroom

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Reading Time: 4 minutesSeth Patterson is a Certified Customer Technical Support Representative at Cengage whose interests lie at the intersection of accessible technology, free software and resilience.   Whenever you use a computer or the internet, you use energy. And since energy resources are finite and can hurt the planet (even renewables can be hard to recycle and […]

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