Keeping Connected in Complicated Times: Audio Tools to Support Remote and Hybrid Language Learning
Language learning is a presencial, participatory act. We listen. We learn. We share. What happens when we can’t be together? How can we give our students opportunities to listen to each other and connect around topics they care about? Mark will explore ways to record, edit and share audio using Soundtrap, Google Drive and Google Slides. These tools and techniques can be used in remote, hybrid or traditional classrooms to give students ways to communicate and collaborate.
Mark Connolly has taught high school Spanish in independent schools in the US since 1997. In that time, he has worked with beginners up to advanced language and literature students. Since 2015, Mark has also served as an Instructional Technologist, supporting teachers in all subjects as they innovate curriculum and integrate technology. He is currently working to prepare himself and his Milton Academy colleagues for a remote opening of school.
Mark received his undergraduate degree in Spanish and English from the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and his graduate degree in Hispanic Studies from Boston College (Boston, MA). Mark lives in Woburn, MA with his wife and two children.