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-Joe McMahon
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
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-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
Masters of Our Domain Names: UMW to Pilot Domain of One’s Own
What’s gotten lost in all the attention around the ds106 Kickstarter is the fact that on Friday DTLT sat down with UMW’s Chief Information Office, the inimitable Justin Webb, to work out the details for an initial pilot launch of … Continue reading
The ds106 Kickstarter: We’re funded! Now what?
I haven’t even had time to process how unbelievably amazing the ds106 community is based on how fast the Kickstarter was funded (less than 24 hours!), when all of a sudden Michael Feldstein is making a call for bigger donations … Continue reading
The ds106 Kickstarter: Classes for and by the Community
At 4 PM yesterday Tim Owens and I launched this Kickstarter to raise money for a more robust server to run the extremely resource intensive ds106 site. The server itself is $2,830 for the year, and the remaining $1400 or … Continue reading
You know what, DTLT is pretty sick right now
The semester has been flying by, here we are in week 10, two-thirds through and I have to say we here at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies are moving at a pretty amazing clip. It’s as if everything … Continue reading
If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes
If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes from Jim Groom on Vimeo. For my video essay assignment I finally completed my long overdue video discussion of the motif of eyes in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982). … Continue reading
The Formative Five: Movie Scenes that Changed My Life
Annie Belle submitted an assignment suggesting you talk about 3-5 movie scenes that changed your life. That is right up my alley and I couldn’t resist. In fact, about four years ago I started a formative 10 film series on … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Brief and Imperfect Video Tips
This Week in ds106: A Brief and imperfect overview of some video tools from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. This is a short video outlining some uses for MPEG Streamclip, a short discussion of DVD ripping tools, a look at basic editing … Continue reading
From the ds106 Video Archive: Andrew Allingham’s The Saragossa Manuscript video essay
In honor of video week I am going to pull a ds106 classic video essay from the archive done by the great Andrew Allingham. This may be one of the most compelling video essays I have yet to see, right … Continue reading
I Fracking Love UMW Blogs
It’s been a wild couple of years with ds106, and I love that little bastard. But sometimes too much fond affection on the baby blinds you to the maturing of your other kids, namely umwblogs. That environment is now 5 … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: A Video Intro tour de force
Tonight I introduced my section of ds106 to the video section of the course. The assignments, videos, and resources referred to above can be be found in the assignment post for weeks 9 & 10 here. I had a good … Continue reading