Ad infinitum (a curious, repetitive melody)

Ad Infinitum is an instrumental piece using mallet instruments that repeats to create suspense with a crescendo in the middle.

All change COUNTRY MUSIC loop

All Change Loop is a country & western instrumental featuring rhythm guitar, lead banjo, rhythm banjo, fiddle and upright bass with a wooden barn echo.

All change RG and B loop

All Change RG & B Loop is a country & western instrumental featuring rhythm guitar and upright bass with a wooden barn echo.

Allure (elegant piano solo)

An elegant piano solo.

Ambient cinematic guitar, bass, synth pad

A short instrumental that is ambient in style and would suit cinematic types of projects. Guitar, bass and a synth pad feature in this composition.

Ambient thing full length

Ambient Thing is an uplifting, melodic and motivational track featuring synths, piano, guitar, double bass, violins, drums and light vocals. Atmospheric and reflective, yet incredibly inspiring, It expresses positivity, strong emotional connection and success. Upbeat and positive, it is suitable for your business/corporate projects, videos, websites, films, creative pursuits and more.

Ambient thing loop

Ambient Thing is an uplifting, melodic and motivational track featuring synths, drums and light vocals. Atmospheric and reflective, yet incredibly inspiring, it expresses positivity, strong emotional connection and success. Upbeat and positive, it is suitable for your business/corporate projects, videos, websites, films, creative pursuits and more.

Ambient thing loop 2

Ambient Thing is an uplifting, melodic and motivational track featuring synths, piano,drums. Atmospheric and reflective, yet incredibly inspiring, it expresses positivity, strong emotional connection and success. Upbeat and positive, it is suitable for your business/corporate projects, videos, websites, films, creative pursuits and more.

Ambient thing loop 3

Ambient Thing is an uplifting, melodic and motivational track featuring synths, piano,drums. Atmospheric and reflective, yet incredibly inspiring, it expresses positivity, strong emotional connection and success. Upbeat and positive, it is suitable for your business/corporate projects, videos, websites, films, creative pursuits and more.

And on (piano and acoustic guitar cinematic style)

and on is a short instrumental featuring a nylon stringed acoustic guitar with an echo, chorus and tap reverb added to the tail, piano, and two synth pads.

Anything will do

Anything Will Do is a short instrumental piece featuring a tenor saxophone, 1 synth and a piano.

Atmos (piano and guitar)

Atmos (Piano and Guitar) is a short instrumental with piano and guitar.

Uses of YouTube : digital literacy and the growth of knowledge

I invented YouTube. Well, not YouTube exactly, but something close – something called YIRN; and not by myself exactly, but with a team. In 2003-5 I led a research project designed to link geographically dispersed young people, to allow them to post their own photos, videos and music, and to comment on the same from various points of view – peer to peer, author to public, or impresario to audience. We wanted to find a way to take the individual creative productivity that is associated with the Internet and combine it with the easy accessibility and openness to other people’s imagination that is associated with broadcasting; especially, in the context of young people, listening to the radio. So we called it the Youth Internet Radio Network, or YIRN.

Floating on a sea of talk: Reading comprehension through speaking and listening

Talk is the foundation for thought and understanding, and the key to literacy learning. Research demonstrates that powerful meta-cognitive strategies can be taught to help students self-monitor their comprehension when reading print and digital texts. This paper provides a repertoire of motivating speaking and listening tips to develop the meta-cognitive thinking of students in the elementary years.

At-risk students and classroom engagement : listening to “voices of possibility and hope"

In my work with secondary school students who have disengaged from mainstream classrooms, I have often been surprised at the ways they enthusiastically engage with the projects on offer. They have demonstrated that, in apparent contradiction of their classroom behaviour, they still maintain hope in achieving a positive outcome from education. In a long-running schools-university project employing a “students-as-researchers” approach to investigating educational disadvantage, “at-risk” students have produced high quality results. Naturally, I wanted to know what it was about this sort of pedagogy that seemed to work for them. In this chapter, then, I outline the project and discuss some reasons for disengagement. I then address the features of the project that the participants themselves have identified as being instrumental in their re-engagement with formal education. Finally, I consider how these features may be transposed to maintaining the educational engagement of at-risk students in mainstream classrooms.