Shared Sharing Practice

Creating a revision CD for Chemistry

introduction

Mr Husband is the ICT support manager at Balwearie High School. He had the idea of producing e-lessons on CD to be used by: 

  • pupils who have been absent 
  • pupils who want to revise a topic
  • pupils with learning difficulties 
  • supply teachers.         


Together with chemistry teacher Dr Les Short he has produced the first CD, which covers a chemistry lesson about titration. In today’s class, S3 pupils try out the CD for the first time.

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Teacher profile

Mr Husband has been teaching for 30 years, all of them at Balwearie High School. He was originally a technical teacher before computing started as a subject 20 years ago. He was then head of computing until he left to be a NOF trainer for three and a half years. In August 2003 he returned to Balwearie High School as ICT support manager. He now has responsibility for ICT support, including staff training, across the curriculum and at six feeder primary schools. In addition he teaches computing at S1 and S2 level.

School profile

Balwearie High School in Kircaldy has 1720 pupils. There are 100 pupils with special educational needs, 182 pupils having free school lunches and 10 who speak English as a second language. The school has won a Schools Curriculum Award and has a Charter Mark for Excellence.
There are 540 computers in the school and 10 ICT rooms. Part of the depute’s remit is to be the ICT coordinator. ICT training is available in-house or from external providers