Analysing dance performance using digital video
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Teacher and school profile
Peter Gilhooly has been teaching for 25 years in two different schools. He is currently teaching S1-S6. For the past year, Peter has been principal teacher in charge of art, music, PE, and craft, design and technology at Broxburn Academy. For 16 years before that, he was principal teacher of PE.
Peter uses ICT quite a lot at Standard Grade level. He has recently developed, with Learning and Teaching Scotland, a CD-ROM for use in evaluation of PE. He has also been designing a website, www.sportzone.org , to support the teaching and learning of both Standard Grade and Higher PE.
Peter has attended courses on FileMakerPro and ClarisWorks, and has had training in the use of video in PE. Otherwise, he has developed his ICT skills by exploring the technology in his own time, using the internet and books. There is a full-time ICT coordinator at the school and Peter is working with him to design a policy for the integration of ICT across all subjects.
School profile
Broxburn Academy is in the village of Broxburn in West Lothian. The school is a modern three-storey building and has 840 pupils, 91 of whom have free school lunches. There are three pupils recorded as having special educational needs and six with English as a second language.
The school has approximately 300 PCs connected in a local network and six dedicated ICT rooms. There is an ICT coordinator available full-time. Some ICT training for staff is available in school and the continuing professional development (CPD) schedule always has the provision for ICT courses within it. All full-time staff must do 30 hours of CPD training annually.