Fairtrade Fortnight 2009

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One we prepared earlier...
Since the requests of Monsignor Reilly seem to have been roundly ignored by the leaders of our educational emporium (Nestle anyone?), here's a selection of Fairtrade related videos from YouTube. All neatly tied up in an Embedr gift-wrap. Yes, I know thatwe're in the middle (middle?) of a recession but I think that this is meant to be global. Or does the developing world not count in these times? Less to lose I suppose.



So what does it all mean...?

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Another one of those viral videos that pose a lot of questions but offer no answers. Anyway, there are no answers because ultimately it's all meaningless. Still, if it makes you feel like a philosopher for 5 minutes & 16 seconds, perhaps that's no bad thing...

Remembering the Big Bopper...

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In all the 50th anniversary of "The Day The Music Died" celebrations, much has been (rightly) said, read & written about Buddy Holly; less so Ritchie Valens & The Big Bopper (Jiles "Jape" Richardson Jr). And to these ears at least, apart from the work of Mr. Charles Berry, Chantilly Lace just about wraps up everything you might need to know about the spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. So Arkive proudly presents:



An afterthought. The Big Bopper was only on the 'plane because Buddy Holly's bass-player gave up his seat for him. One Waylon Jennings. Spooky...

Embedr - "makes videos play nice"

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Embedr. This one's popped up on quite a few blogs of late and, for once perhaps, I'm impressed. Why? Because it's a neat way to aggregate videos from a variety of sources into a neat package that doesn't run way, way, way down that web-page.
  • Create an account (you don't have to but it helps);
  • Create a playlist from YouTube (or from a long list of other video-sharing sites such as TeacherTube);
  • Save the playlist & embed the HTML code into your web-page, blog, Moodle, Joomla!, whatever.
The widget below was created by Embedr using the CommonCraft social media videos from YouTube. Time taken about 15 minutes. Excellent. And free. We like free in FE! Joomla! users - turn off that WYSIWYG editor!