Modelling Musique Concrète (pdf)

(For SMI Conference)
2012

Being Practical and Creative with ICT (pdf)

(For SLSS)
2010

Teaching notes for Lyric FM CD

(For RTE - just the notes, not the CD)
2010

© NOTES for Leaving Certificate Music

(Textbook and workbooks)
2008

Organising Sounds

(Electroacoustic music project)
2008

Traditional Irish Music (pdf)

(For PPMTA)
2008

Travaillons à Paris

Basic web-design

Harmony for Leaving Certs (Old notes)

Ode to MITE (at CRITE)

(For a Laugh)
2004

• Interactive French crossword: food ('13)
• Harmony: Solution for 5th years ('13)
• L'épreuve orale - sujets de conversation ('13)
• Interactive French crossword: Hallowe'en ('12)
• Modelling a Bad Gardenscape ('12)
• Music Crossword: Version 1 and Version 2 ('12)
• Classroom composing: Ideas for teachers ('11)
• Rondo Rhythm for Teaching Practice ('11)
• Killer Beans (soundtrack by a JC student) ('11)
• Exam melody-writing pointers. Cashel PPMTA ('11)
• Scaffolding Melody-writing. Cork PPMTA ('11)
• "Learning Sibelius 6". Kildare, '10. Extract.
• 19th century performance - slide for Dr Pam Burnard ('10)
• Woodraft - Techano - Stream of... Marino ('10)
• Kinetic! - Structure - Frustration Balbriggan ('10)
• Easy 4-part arrangement for LC Mustech ('10)
• "Publishing a school text book." Talk in DIT, Dublin, ('09)
• Froebel singers - Carol 1 - Carol 2 ('09)
• Capall - video ('09)
• métro-boulot-dodo - video ('09)
• Share.TEC - European project ('09) (Research Assistant)
• Teaching Council Award Research Bursary ('08)
• Music resources for Scoilnet ('07, '08) include:
  
  • Scoilnet Quiz 1: Features of orchestral music
  • Scoilnet Quiz 2: Compositional features of works
  • Scoilnet Quiz 3: Harmony
  • Scoilnet Quiz 4: Junior Cert Course A Set Songs
  • Scoilnet Quiz 5: Junior Cert Course B Set Songs
  • Scoilnet Quiz 6: Junior Cert Course C Set Songs
  • Scoilnet Quiz 7: 20th century musical styles
  • Scoilnet Quiz 8: Leaving Cert musical works
  • Scoilnet Crossword 1: Musical terms
  • Scoilnet Crossword 2: More musical terms
  • Scoilnet Crossword 3: Jazz
  • Scoilnet Crossword 4: Orchestra (JC)
  • Scoilnet Crossword 5: Orchestra (LC)
  • Scoilnet Crossword 6: Irish Music (JC)
  • Scoilnet Crossword 7: Irish Music (LC)
  • Scoilnet: Music Themes pages
• Manor House School website (Webmaster, '02-'07)
• Drumsteps website ('06) (The website, not the content)
• E-twinning - Aubenas ('06)
• Efelcren IT tools - Comenius ('06)
• Hyperscore Workshops - Ark Theatre ('06) (Archived)
• Matching instruments with their French name ('05)
• Online Diary of School Sports Tour to Australia ('05)
• Electro no 3 + Electro no 4 ('04)
• Electro no 1 + Electro no 2 ('03)
• Bono inspires LC Music examiners ('03)
• Composing with Hyperscore ('02)
• Interactive French Crossword - Hot Potatoes ('02)
• métro-boulot-dodo.mp3 - Composing assignment ('00)
• Timbral Trivia salvaged from first website ('99)
• Composing - National Chamber Choir - school site ('98)
• French Debating - Alliance Française - school site ('98)

Talking about IT in Education

• "Investigating the Relevance of 19th Century Kindergarten Songs in the 21st Century Infant Classroom", SMEI, Limerick. Abstract. ('12)
• "Modelling Musique Concrète Composing at Secondary School", SMI, Dundalk. Abstract. ('12)
• "Creativity and Musicality through Digital Soundscape Composing". IFS, Froebel College, Dublin. Abstract. ('12)
• "Musical Gifts: Composing Songs for Children". IFS, Froebel College, Dublin. Symposium Abstract. ('12)
• "Composing in Secondary Schools in Ireland: sustaining the momentum". SMEI, Cork. Abstract. ('11)
• "Creativity and new approaches to CPD for second-level music teachers in Ireland: A review". RIME, Exeter. Abstract. ('11)
• "Musique concrète at secondary school: Asking the 'right ' questions." RIME, Exeter. Abstract ('11)
• "Digital Soundscapes: Student teachers organising sounds in a technology-enhanced learning environment" ATEE. Prague. Abstract. ('10)
• "Soundscape as creative endeavour" BERA one-day conference on creativity and language, Cambridge. ('09)
• "Composing Musique Concrète at Secondary School: Lessons Learnt from Pre-Pilot Work". Kaleidoscope, Cambridge. Abstract. ('09)
• "Students Organising Sounds: Examining the fragile relationship between scaffolding and creativity in the area of electroacoustic composition at secondary school level." RIME, Exeter. Abstract. ('09)
• "The Glories of a Blank Screen: Investigating electroacoustic music at secondary school level." Seminar, Cambridge. ('09)
• "Tuition and Intuition: Researching electroacoustic music at secondary school." Seminar, DMU, Leicester. ('08)
• "At the chalkface: Using aspects of Roger Doyle's music to introduce electroacoustic music to secondary school music students". EMS08, Paris. Paper. ('08)
• "An examination of adolescents' electroacoustic compositions: Developing an aesthetic". ISME, Bologna. Abstract. ('08)
• "From Peering in the Window to Opening the Door: a constructivist approach to making electroacoustic music accessible to young listeners." Organised Sound, 11(2), (179-187). ('06)
• "From Peering in the Window to Opening the Door: a constructivist approach to making electroacoustic music accessible to young listeners." EMS05, Montréal. ('05)
• "VIEW: Visually Investigating Electroacoustic Waves" in IADAT Journal of Advanced Technology on Imaging and Graphics (39-43) 1, (2) Abstract. ('05)
• "VIEW: Visually Investigating Electroacoustic Waves." IADAT, Madrid. Paper. ('05)
• "The Music of Sound: A constructivist approach to the comprehension of electroacoustic music, through the composition of musique concrète, at post-primary level" MICTE, Caceres. ('05)
• "MOSAIC in Music Composition" MICTE, Caceres. ('05)
• "The Music of Sound: A Constructivist Approach to the Comprehension of Electroacoustic Music, through the Composition of Musique Concrète at Post-Primary School Level" Trinity College Dublin. Dissertation (Microsoft Award) ('04)
• "Can we Leave our Composing Unplugged"? St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin. ('01)