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-Joe McMahon
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-Serena Epstein
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
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-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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
Coming Fall 2013: True Crime!
Update: Please note this course syllabus has been modified significantly. You can find the most recent version here. (8/24/13) I’ve spent a fair amount of time proclaiming how awesome Paul Bond during last semester’s Hardboiled Freshman Seminar. But proclamations are one thing, … Continue reading
Unclogging the bava
There have been some plumbing issues on the bava as of late 🙂 Thanks to Tom Woodward for these GIF infomericals which builds on Michael Branson Smith’s homegrown collection and reminds me of what Brian Lamb said in our GIF … Continue reading
How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the GIF
Before I say anything else, just take a moment to see how brilliant Andrew Forgrave is at GIFFing, his recent commentary on the Animated GIF Variety Show Tom Woodward, Michael Branson Smith, Brian Lamb, Zack Dowell, and I presented last … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own Faculty Initiative
I’ve been crazy this last month, and the proof is in the blog archive pudding: only eighteen god damned blog posts for January. I hope February proves to be a bit easier on the bava, but, with that said, January … Continue reading
The Red Detachment of Women (1961)
This semester Sue Fernsebner is teaching a Chinese History through Film class at UMW, and after looking at the syllabus I couldn;t help put take the course. I was in Los Angeles in the early 1990s during the apex of … Continue reading
UMW Blogs: It Won’t Stop Growing!
File this under arbitrary stats about UMW Blogs. The traffic on UMW Blogs has been really high out of the gate this semester, so I wanted to see what the first two weeks of traffic for the Spring semester looks … Continue reading
Le Professionnel (1981)
Anto and I continue our focus on French films, this time we moved from the early 1970s to the early 1980s, and I must admit that the 80s aesthetic is far cheesier—which is one of the many reasons I loved … Continue reading
Damnable Bestialities: a Hardboiled Discussion with David Kernohan
Thanks to David Kernohan I finally got the opportunity to talk about some of the fallout of the Hardboiled class I taught last semester. It was a really fun class, and like ds106, the first time through a relatively new … Continue reading
1970s French Noir Double Feature: Un Flic and Le Voyou
If you’re looking for a good, theme-based double feature I have a treat for you, and if you have access to streaming Netflix in the U.S. (or can get your hands on a proxy) then you can get some instant … Continue reading
Rosie the Riveter dot umw dot edu
So, it’s been over a year since UMW has had it’s main .edu website running on WordPress. DTLT has been experimenting with the possibilities of aggregating posts from UMW Blogs into umw.edu (in fact, this post will aggregate into DTLT’s … Continue reading