AuthorKate Baggott

Kate Baggott is the Head of Content and Communications for the Edusity family of companies that includes Edusity, Cudoo, The Babb Group, and Professor Services. Together, the four brands offer a full suite of online learning tools and services from learning management technology, to instructional design and curriculum management and support for the academic job search and recruitment.

Survival Spanish for Spring Break (Or Anytime, Really!)

You’re landing at the airport, getting the shuttle bus and going straight to the resort.  It’s a sun and sand vacation that requires no Spanish.  Be prepared for an adventure to call. You will want to leave the resort to answer that call.  Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela are full of history, culture and tourist sites.  Not everyone enjoys language...

The EdTech News for Friday, March 10, 2023: Procrastinators Actually Start Early

Families that learn together, code together. An innovative community computing program called Families Learning Together is an established education project run by Texas State University and taught by student-facilitators from the School of Art and Design. The program teaches families and kids make art and tell stories with “computational thinking” and computer programming. The maker clubs and...

Teaching & Learning Legend Judith Heumann (1947 to 2023)

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“Some people say that what I did changed the world,” Judith Heumann wrote, “But really, I simply refused to accept what I was told about who I could be. And I was willing to make a fuss about it.” Judith Heumann died on March 4, 2023. The disability rights activist was 75. A wheelchair user after contracting polio as a two year-old, Heumann’s life of resisting the status quo was inevitable. When...

The EdTech News for Monday, February 27, 2023: Teens Reduce Screen Time & Improve Body Image

Teaching and learning is a vast subject area. Building technology to support education demands the rapid re-assembling of ideas. We can take inspiration from this vast area and create a supportive scaffolding for instructors and learners. What’s true for EdTech is true for other sectors too. Once the technology is built, it cannot be unbuilt. It can only be further developed and improved. Part of...

African Language Learning: Yoruba, Zulu, Amharic & Swahili

February is Black Heritage Month in North America. Cudoo supports learning a more complete history of the world, so every week in February Cudoo featured a different African language that is taught on the platform in the Cudoo LinkedIn newsletter. Black Heritage and African language learning are just as important the other eleven months of the year, so all the African languages content appears in...

Announcing the New Guidelines for Guest & Sponsored Posts

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First, Cudoo apologizes. The guest post/ sponsored post guidelines on the main site are out of date. The web team is so busy, they won’t be able to update for a few days. While we wait, the Cudoo content team can update everyone whose been sending us requests for more info via the magic of WordPress. Here are the new guidelines you’ve been waiting for. Where’s the money? Taking...

Want a Job? Learn Another Language

If you are a young adult about to finish college or university, you probably know you have to make your own opportunities. And, you are supposed to make your own opportunities without any support or encouragement from your country. Taking control and making decisions about your own learning is one way you can make those opportunities. Reseach shows that learning a second or third language is one...

Call For Cudoo Course Conquerors

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What is a Cudoo Course Conqueror? Besides an opportunity to express our alarming attraction to alliteration? It’s an opportunity to use our wealth of words for YOU!! Yes, you. Cudoo is searching for students who successfully smashed through barriers, completed a Cudoo course and used what they learned. Did learning ASL for Hospitality help you get a job in that bougie boutique hotel everyone...

Cudoo Learns About the Malicious Insider

Editor’s Note: Recently, one of Cudoo’s sister companies published this article about a common workplace security issue. We decided the information was too important not to share with our readers too.  Since more people have started working remotely, security issues have multiplied! Some of the power to keeping your files and web properties safe from intruders is under your control. Here are some...

ASL for the Hospitality Industry

What do human beings have in common? We all eat, drink and move around. The hospitality industry that provides food and beverage services, overnight accommodation, travel and tourism infrastructure, and entertainment and recreation opportunities must accommodate everyone. This includes deaf and hard of hearing clients. In most countries of the world, legislation demands that hotels and other...

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