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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
The Educational aPOPcalypse in 25 Animated GIFs
It”s been a busy week closing up this semester’s ds106 course, but I figured I should blog about my TEDxNYED presenting experience before it fades into memory for good. I was trying to experiment wildly with this one because I … Continue reading
UMW featured in ELI’s 7 Things about New Learning Ecosystems
UMW is featured in this month’s Seven Things You Should Know Series by ELI focusing on Navigating the New Learning Ecosystem. What’s interesting is that this is not the first time UMW has been featured in the 7 Things series, … Continue reading
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
On Saturday, May 5 at 2 PM The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) is playing at the Library of Congress, Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia and Miles and I are going to see it. That’s final. I just called to … Continue reading
Civil Rights Leader James Farmer’s UMW Lectures Online
More than five years ago I started working with UMW’s archivist Carolyn Parsons to try and digitize James Farmer’s video lecture series recorded here at UWM in 1983. The lecture series was pretty awesome, and it basically revolved around James … Continue reading
Sarah Kountz is a ds106 Kung-Fu Master
Sarah Kountz may be the most consistently creative student I’ve yet to see in #ds106. The class has been over for her for more than a year, but she keeps on going with regular assignments of awesome. Take a look … Continue reading
Proto-MOOCs Rock!
Steve Kolowich of Inside Higher Ed wrote piece on #ds106 titled “Proto-Mooc Stays the Course”, and what I enjoyed about this article is he actually took the time and energy to try and get his head around the multi-headed hydra … Continue reading
Endings and Possibilities: Life after ds106?
Tonight marks the last time I teach ds106 officially at UMW for a while. I’ve taught it six times in two and half years, and it’s become more awesome than my wildest dreams. At the same time, it’s time to … Continue reading
Dawn of the Dead and Road Warrior Animated GIFs
I’ve been working on a presentation for TEDxNYED that is all animated GIFs—25 in all. I’ll be publishing an annotated version of the presentation here sometime time for feedback, but before I did I wanted to get the GIFs I … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction and Archiving
This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction, and Archiving from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. I spent the penultimate class session of this semester’s ds106 talking about remix culture before YouTube, a la Jonathan McIntosh’s article I discovered today. During class … Continue reading
From the 80s Remix Archive: Reagans Promote Crack Cocaine
That classic was done by Cliff Roth in 1988, almost twenty years before YouTube, with nothing but a couple of VHS decks—kinda like walking uphill to school in the snow both ways. And this tweet from WFMU links to this … Continue reading