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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
Remixed Book Covers
I was browsing UMW Blogs yesterday when I cam across this post about a remixed book cover of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. The post is part of professor Gary Richards’s Contemporary American Fiction course blog, and the class happening to … Continue reading
Ray Harryhausen’s Animated Creatures in Chronological Order
Being a fan of Ray Harryhausen’s creature animations, the following tweet from WFMU was an immediate score. What is coolest about this is there are at least two or three films referenced here I haven’t yet seen. I started doing … Continue reading
A Beautiful Web of Obsession and Pen Spinning
Every so often I head into Google Analytics to check out the traffic on UMW Blogs. This used to be a more regular occurrence when we were having load issues on the site, but this semester our blogging platform has … Continue reading
ds106radio: It’s not radio, ma’am, it’s the internet
A few weeks back, while returning from Portland, oregon—did I mention i still have an epic post about Portland to write?—I did a little experiment on my flight back East. On the first leg from Portland to Salt Lake City … Continue reading
A funny thing happened on the way to the hangout…
Andy Rush and I were talking about what we were gonna do for today’s DTLT Today episode, and I pushed the idea of having a breakout chat space for the K12 Online Conference video session on ds106. I figured the … Continue reading
Initial thoughts on #ds106 for Spring 2012
This coming Spring semester two sections of ds106 will be running out of UMW, and I believe at least two more sections out of CUNY’s York College and Temple University Japan. If any other courses want to run along side … Continue reading
ds106 Crusader
Here is my first pass at mashing up Saxon’s Crusader album cover for ds106. Next semester I will have to spend a lot more time getting better at Photoshop/GIMP because it is all too evident I still suck. Anyway, join … Continue reading
UMW Blogs and the Virtual Geography of Free Speech
UMW Geography professor Donald Rallis has an amazing two-part blog post about the relationship of the protest movements in Manama, Bahrain and Richmond, Virginia (part 1, part 2). Having been in both places recently, professor Rallis starts to triangulate the … Continue reading
K12 Online Conference Presentation: Disclaimer, Credits, and Resources
Welcome to the resource guide for mine and Tom Woodward’s presentation titled “The World’s Craziest Educational Videos featuring ds106” Below are a couple of quick, useful links for this presentation: The ds106.us site is here: http://ds106.us The assignment submission form: … Continue reading
EDUPUNK won’t die, but faith in universities may
It is almost four years old now, and I swear EDUPUNK won’t die. Maybe that’s not a bad thing either if we can divorce it from a brand as Sarah Cunnane’s article on the topic in Times Higher Education suggests. … Continue reading