Melody-writing: Junior and Senior Cycles (pdf)

(For PPMTA Conference)
2011

Leaving Cert Music: Aural Skills (pdf)

(For PPMTA LC Revision)
2011

Midland Examining Board

(MEB: Music examining and correcting)
2011

Teaching notes for Lyric FM CD

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

Illustrating Music

(For TeachNet)
2010

Sound Stories

(For TeachNet)
2009

© NOTES for Leaving Certificate Music

(Textbook and workbooks)
2008; 2nd edition 2010

Organising Sounds

(Electroacoustic music project)
2008

Traditional Irish Music (pdf)

(For PPMTA)
2008

Travaillons à Paris

Basic web-design

Harmony for Leaving Certs (Slides)

Ode to MITE (at CRITE)

(For a Laugh)
2004

• Bad Gardenscape and Gardenscape ('12)
• Saturnscape ('12)
• Digitising Froebel's Songs ('12)
• Project for IFS Conference ('12)
• Crossword: Instruments and forms - Version 1 ('12)
• Crossword: Instruments and forms - Version 2 ('12)
• Rondo Rhythm for Teaching Practice ('11)
• "Composing in Secondary Schools in Ireland: sustaining the momentum." Presentation (pdf) ('11)
• Killer Beans (soundtrack by a JC student) ('11)
• "Creativity and new approaches to CPD for second-level music teachers in Ireland: A review" (with Martin Barrett). Powerpoint - music links removed ('11)
• "Musique concrète at secondary school: Asking the 'right' questions." Powerpoint - music links removed ('11)
• Classroom composing - Ideas for teachers - PDST ('11)
• 19th century performance - slide for Pam Burnard ('10)
• 21st century performance - slide for Pam Burnard ('10)
• Woodraft - Techano - Stream of... Marino ('10)
• Kinetic! - Structure - Frustration Balbriggan ('10)
• Easy 4-part arrangement for LC Mustech ('10)
• Somerton Music School website, Birr, Co Offaly ('10)
• "The creative use of ICT in the classroom." Talk on behalf of the PDST at the PPMTA conference. Athlone, ('10)
• Froebel singers - Carol 1 - Carol 2 ('09)
• Capall - video ('09)
• métro-boulot-dodo - video ('09)
• Share.TEC - European project in Trinity ('09)
• 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

• "Modelling Musique Concrète Composing at Secondary School", SMI, Dundalk, '12. Abstract.
• "Creativity and Musicality through Digital Soundscape Composing". IFS, Froebel College, Dublin, '12. Abstract.
• "Musical Gifts: Composing Songs for Children". IFS, Froebel College, Dublin, '12. Symposium Abstract.
• "Composing in Secondary Schools in Ireland: sustaining the momentum". SMEI, Cork, '11. Abstract.
• "Creativity and new approaches to CPD for second-level music teachers in Ireland: A review". RIME, Exeter, '11. Abstract.
• "Musique concrète at secondary school: Asking the 'right ' questions." RIME, Exeter, '11. Abstract
• "Being Practical and Creative with ICT." SLSS, '10.
• "Learning Sibelius 6". Kildare, '10. Extract.
• "Digital Soundscapes: Student teachers organising sounds in a technology-enhanced learning environment" ATEE. Prague, '10. Abstract.
• "Soundscape as creative endeavour" BERA one-day conference on creativity and language, Cambridge, '09.
• "Enhancing the Conducting / Singing Experience with IT". Talk in St Patrick's College of Education, Dublin, '09 and '11.
• "Publishing a school text book." Talk in DIT, Dublin, '09.
• "Composing Musique Concrète at Secondary School: Lessons Learnt from Pre-Pilot Work". Kaleidoscope, Cambridge, '09. Abstract.
• "Students Organising Sounds: Examining the fragile relationship between scaffolding and creativity in the area of electroacoustic composition at secondary school level." RIME, Exeter, '09. Abstract.
• "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, Leicester, '08.
• "At the chalkface: Using aspects of Roger Doyle's music to introduce electroacoustic music to secondary school music students". EMS08, Paris, '08. Paper.
• "An examination of adolescents' electroacoustic compositions: Developing an aesthetic". ISME, Bologna, '08. Abstract.
• "From Peering in the Window to Opening the Door: a constructivist approach to making electroacoustic music accessible to young listeners." Organised Sound, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2006 (pp. 179-187). Cambridge Univ. Press
• "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 (pp. 39-43) 1, (2) 2005. Abstract.
• "VIEW: Visually Investigating Electroacoustic Waves." IADAT, Madrid, '05. Paper
• "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. '04. Dissertation (Microsoft Award)
• "Can we Leave our Composing Unplugged"? St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, '01.