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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
Give it Up for the GIF
I come to this news late, I know, but I certainly would hate to pass up the chance to engage in some gratuitous GIF love. The word of the year, according to the Oxford University Press, is GIF. That has … Continue reading
Open Dialogue – Domain of One’s Own
We recently sent out the following call to all Teaching and Administrative faculty to get the Domain of One’s Own pilot in the hands of as many faculty ans staff as possible. What’s more, we are partnering with Mary Kayler … Continue reading
Hardboiled Week 12: WIkipedia Project Updates and Indemnity Only (Part 1)
Indemnity Only Part 1 11-13-2012 Tonight was a very fun class, #emoboiled (my new moniker for the class thanks to Dr. Garcia) always makes me happy. We spent a most fo the first forty minutes talking smack (I was in … Continue reading
Black Capitalism Comes to Harlem
Cotton Comes to Harlem: Black Capitalism from Jim Groom on Vimeo. This week in hardboiled we read Chester Himes’s 1964 novel Cotton Comes to Harlem as well as watched the 1970 proto-blaxploitation film adaptation by Ossie Davis. One of the … Continue reading
Hardboiled Week 11: Wikipedia Research Project & Sundry (Election Night)
Tuesday, Nov 6, 2012 Hardboiled Course Discussion of Wikipedia Research Project Above is the audio from Tuesday night’s Hardboiled class. We spent most of the session discussing the Wikipedia research project, and started to frame the scope of that over … Continue reading
Domain of One’s Own has been funded!
Man, when I think about how much blogging I haven’t yet done tonight that I need to, I begin to realize just how awesome a moment it is at UMW right now. Not only are we part of the visioning … Continue reading
Virginia’s Open Digital Resources Conference
Last Thursday we (the Open & Digital Learning Resources Conference Committee) had another meeting at UMW to prepare for the upcoming statewide conference on Open & Digital Learning Resources to be held at Mary Washington in March. There’s a lot of … Continue reading
A tennis star plays a match with murder!
I have been dying to make this GIF from Hitchcock’s adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel Strangers on a Train for a for a while now. I finally found some time to make it this evening, and as usual making … Continue reading
Hardboiled: Strangers on a Train Discussions
Almost two weeks ago we discussed Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith at length. I’ve been to crazy to post the discussions here, so let me fix that now and I will come back and blog about the book … Continue reading
Haunted Bricks: Trilogy of Terror
Haunted Bricks: A Triptych of Horror from Jim Groom on Vimeo. Miles and I are entering our brick films stage. I knew it would happen at some point, and I’m really glad it has finally arrived 🙂 We used a … Continue reading