Dónal O’ Mahony

with Gavin Brennan and Denise McKenna

Hi, my name is Dónal O’ Mahony and I am a secondary-school teacher in Portmarnock Community School, Dublin, Ireland.

I am also a part-time lecturer in the School of Education Studies, Dublin City University (DCU).

I teach Religious Education and History in Portmarnock and lecture part-time in the area of Digital Media and Learning in DCU.

I am interested in

  • collaborative online learning
  • the representation of learning through the use of web 2.0 technologies

My Masters is in the former while my current research interests are in the latter.

Both Portmarnock Community School and DCU use Moodle as their online learning environment.

Moodle in Portmarnock has had a catalytic effect.  What I mean by this, is an increase in the rate of digital-media/online related activity in the school, both by teachers and students.