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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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Potty Humor
Another take on this ds106 assignment. Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country. Image credit: Think2Create’s “Squat Toilet”
UMW Cited as Model for Future of Networked Learning
Seems like UMW, and UMW Blogs in particular, is being heralded in Richard Demillo’s new book Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities as a space of “great educational ferment,” to quote from George Leef’s review of … Continue reading
UMW Blogs: A 2011 Snapshot
Here are the number for UMW Blogs for all of 2011. 1,530,580 Visits 1,049,706 Unique Visitors 3,417,021 Pageviews 2.23 Pages/Visit 00:01:48 Avg. Time on Site The stats never cease to mesmerize me, even though they are plateauing. But if you stop for a second and … Continue reading
Lampadato
Lampadato is an Italian term meaning a sunlight tan, but the way Alan Levine’s translation machine get’s at it is much better: I love this assignment, and it made me go back to an Italian film I watched recently, Gomorrah … Continue reading
Tag Feeds for a variety of Blogging Platforms
I have been syndicating in new blogs for ds106 over the last two weeks, and it’s cool to see such a wide variety of platforms syndicating cleanly into the ds106 site. As of now I count seven six different platforms: … Continue reading
1966 Batman Bricked
Via CartoonBrew This is absolutely beautifully done. Miles, Tess, and I have a shitload buttload boatload of Legos hanging around the house now. I think I have to start getting into brick films with them. Start by recreating simple scenes … Continue reading
Slave Leia meets the Garbage Pail Kids
Via this post on Super Punch Slave Leia gets the Garbage Pail Kids treatment from Luis Diaz. I love the whole idea of mashing up Garbage Pail Kids with some other fan franchise, or even doing your own like the awesome … Continue reading
“The Tuition Isn’t The Only Thing That Will Kill You!”
Why hasn’t someone in ed tech thought of this awesome tagline already? It’s for the forthcoming film Murder University by Scorpio Film Releasing, and Hartter did the art for the teaser poster. Very cool.
Animated Comic Book Covers
I could have swore I already linked to these awesome animated comic book covers by Kerry Callen on the bava blog, but searching through my archives I can’t find the post I was sure I already wrote. I do this … Continue reading
I couldn’t resist this one….
….given my long love affair with the Smurfs. Christmas greeting 2011 from trent correy on Vimeo. Video credit to Trent Corey and discovered via the Cartoon Brew blog.