Flip Video of John Johnston

This was to try out the use of the flip camcorder under somewhat adverse conditions.  It was made in the Glow lounge at the Scottish Festival of Learning.

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Scottish Learning Festival

Joe Wilson (alias joecar) writes enthusiasticaly in anticipation of the SLF and the Teachmeet in the evening.  But his last sentence is the most pertinent and I quote
but please remember most teachers won’t be there tomorrow or Thursday
and we need them all to come with us if we are really going to change
how we do things…

 
The changes in Scottish education remind me of the hare and the tortoise.  The hares will all be at Teachmeet and more than 90% of the rest of the teaching workforce are tortoises if not slower.  However, taken over a long enough period of time, years rather than months, the changes will come.  It is up to the hares to keep the faith and continue to extol the virtues of the the changes they want to see.

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Capitalism

One of the mantras of the right and the Neo Cons is that the market is self-correcting.  If within self-correcting you include the possible total meltdown of the banking system then perhaps they are right.  For a substantially Neo Con government in the USA to buy up with public funds all the toxic waste of the American banks and mortgage lenders suggests to me that either they don’t really believe their own mantra or they are now proposing exceptions to the rule.  Either way the age of rampant capitalism unfettered by regulations appears to be over if not permanently at least for a long while to come.

As this is the third or fourth time in the last few decades there has had to be a rescue of the banking system by the taxpayer of various countries, the claim that laissez faire
economics is always good for all the population might also be a bit suspect.  A better description might be that it benefits the rich at the expense of the man or woman in the street.

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Credit Crisis

I have for a while now been waiting to hear anybody in power say that in this whole crisis there are things that should be regarded as fraud.  I have not heard anybody come even near to this, but at last,  I have heard menzies Campbell on Any Questions use the word negligence.  It is at least a step in the right direction.

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