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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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Author Archives: Reverend
(Assignment) Banking a ds106 Thank You
Jim, I have to thank you (and your cohorts) for the awesome ds106 assignment bank. http://assignments.ds106.us My digital media students and I have been using it as an absolutely vital resource since the beginning and it continues to delight and … Continue reading
Decentering Syndication or, a Push Away from RSS
Yesterday Steve Covello tweeted a post at wpmu.org my way. @jimgroom New WPMU hub/spoke architecture: http://t.co/x0RLL0qBPr — Steve Covello (@apescience) September 17, 2013 I was prepared to read about a premium suite of plugins that I could buy for the … Continue reading
An Invitation to a Hanging
Literally! We have been talking extensively about public execution narratives in the True Crime I am teaching, which made this scanned invitation to the 1875 hanging of California bandit Tiburcio Vasquez pretty freaking timely and awesome. Thank you, Tom Woodward! … Continue reading
Benjamin Franklin a Serial Killer?
While looking up information regard Benjamin Franklin’s short newspaper article from 1734 titled “The Death of a Daughter” I found this bit of sensationalism—or is it?—on the Huffington Post: While working on the renovation of Benjamin Franklin’s London home, a … Continue reading
Legends of True Crime: Sawney Bean
While reading America’s Bloody Register (the subject of my last post for True Crime) one of the things that gives away the shift of crime narratives from moral correctives to popular entertainment are the cliff hanegrs and advertisements. Just as … Continue reading
America’s Bloody Register: It’s all about the “Joes”
In the True Crime seminar last week we discussed Foucault’s Discipline and Punish alongside some of the more sensationalized texts of class and racial others like William Fly (Pyrate), Joseph Mountain (Mulatto/Highwayman), and Thomas Powers (“a Negro”), this week we … Continue reading
Mario Bava must have gotten bit by Rabid Dogs
Paul Bond and I were as good as our word, we worked through ten of Mario Bava’s best films for the Bavafest we’ve been doing since March. This post has the tenth and final (for now!) discussion of what might … Continue reading
With Good Reason Radio Coming to OpenVA
I learned this past week that Sarah McConnell of NPR’s With Good Reason radio show will be coming to OpenVA on October 15th. The With Good Reason crew will be interviewing various people throughout the day from around the state as well as taking … Continue reading
Reclaim Open Interview about ds106 with Anya Kamenetz
Yesterday Martha Burtis, Alan Levine, and I sat down virtually with Anya Kamenetz for an interview about ds106. The interview will be the basis of a piece Anya will writing about ds106 as part of the Reclaim Open Innovation contest it … Continue reading
Joe Strummer on Open
Luke Waltzer linked to this clip from a documentary about The Clash in a comment he made on the Bava the other day, and I haven’t been able to stop watching it. In particular, the section at 3:50 that Joe … Continue reading