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-Luke Waltzer
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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: open education
A Magical Day at OER23, Part 2
Where did I leave off in part 1 of this post? Oh yeah, that’s right I stopped after narrating the magic that was the Gasta session because in many ways it represents a natural break because the energy was so … Continue reading
A Magical Day at OER23, Part 1
I’m sitting in Schipol Airport jotting this down before I catch another flight to London, so this will be brief. I know I said in a previous post I would try and blog small, more regular bursts from the conference, … Continue reading
Open Education in Italy or, an Introduction to the Introduction
I’ll be blogging from behind for the next week or so, but let me start by sharing some good news for Italian colleague and friend, Fabio Nascimbeni, who published his freely available book on Open Education in Italian. It’s an … Continue reading
OWLTEH’s Learning on the Open Web Event
On the 25th of next month I’ll be attending Open Web for Learning and Teaching Expertise Hub (OWLTEH) conference dedicated to“Learning on/with the Open Web” in Coventry. And if you frequent those parts and are interested in exploring approaches to … Continue reading
Reclaim Interview at OER18
I met the team of @ReclaimHosting for an interview on #DigitalLiteracy in the post-cambridge-analytica-era.(PLEASE don’t tell anyone that there has been a rift in the space-time continuum at 8’45 of the video!)https://t.co/Q6Z5tcYDcM #OER18 — Jöran ? (@joeranEN) June 10, 2018 … Continue reading
cPanel Minimalism
We recently migrated UNLV’s faculty websites to a Domain of One’s Own environment. I learned a lot during that migration which in turn helped motivate me to finally clean up the bavatuesdays multi-network site I’ve been putting off for over … Continue reading
Reclaiming Open with WordPress
https://twitter.com/hrheingold/status/978094073608159232 I woke up to a few tweets about Reclaim Hosting and the #deletefacebook movement. It’s been hard for me to get excited about Facebook either way. I see it as one of the more depressing malls of the web, … Continue reading
The Idea Generator
A year ago I went to Karlstad University with Tom Woodward thanks to the kind invitation from the great Jörg Pareigis to run a workshop for a group of faculty running open courses. It was a fun workshop, we used ds106 as … Continue reading
Tech Infrastructure as OER
Recently on Twitter, Jöran Muuß-Merhol reminded me of a discussion we had back in 2016 at the OER Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. This podcast with @jimgroom on the beauty and the messiness of #learning is one of my favorites! (Only … Continue reading