Com­ing up at QBOC2010 Jon Adams and Richard Settle from Instru­mental Music Aus­tralia will present a ses­sion on ‘Music the­ory online’. Dur­ing this ses­sion teach­ers will have the oppor­tun­ity to view and trial a new online soft­ware pro­gram designed to take the drudgery out of teach­ing the­ory. This pro­gram, designed with the music teacher in mind, has led to the devel­op­ment of a part­ner­ship with the Aus­tralian Music Exam­in­a­tions Board to offer online exams. Teach­ers will exper­i­ence the ease of use of this pro­gram and dis­cover its unique inter­na­tional pat­ent pending design which incor­por­ates mon­it­or­ing of stu­dents’ pro­gress, act­ive screen­shots of stu­dents work, all con­tained within a fun, inter­act­ive self-marking envir­on­ment. A first for Australia!

Jon Adams

Jon has been an instru­mental teacher with Edu­ca­tion Queens­land for more than twenty years in the Bris­bane region and gradu­ated with a Bach­elor of Music as well as a Dip­loma in Edu­ca­tion. Around ten years ago he inden­ti­fied the need for a fun way for stu­dents to learn music the­ory. He then formed a part­ner­ship with Luke Grant, a musi­cian and com­puter pro­gram­mer, and began Web Ed Devel­op­ment, a com­pany that aims to cre­ate a new group of tech­no­lo­gies that will allow online music edu­ca­tion to become a real­ity. Web Ed Devel­op­ment is now the online learn­ing part­ner for the Aus­tralian Music Exam­in­a­tions Board and they have launched their first joint pro­ject mak­ing Music The­ory exams avail­able online.

Richard Settle

Richard Settle has been both an instru­mental music edu­cator and a pro­fes­sional trum­pet player for more than twenty years and is well known through­out Bris­bane and Queens­land. He has worked in both the state and private school sec­tors and is in demand as a clini­cian, con­ductor and adju­dic­ator. Fol­low­ing three years liv­ing in Japan he returned to Aus­tralia where he is now Man­aging Dir­ector of Instru­mental Music Aus­tralia, a music retail busi­ness with a strong focus on edu­ca­tion and ser­vice. He remains pas­sion­ate about work­ing with young people and enabling them to be the best they can be. He is a gradu­ate of the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium with a Dip­loma of Music and has a Gradu­ate Dip­loma in Fur­ther Edu­ca­tion & Train­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land.