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-Joe McMahon
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-Serena Epstein
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-James D. Calder
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-Luke Waltzer
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-Clint Lalonde
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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
Minimalist Philosophy Posters
This is a layup for ds106. The minimalist post that moves beyond film and TV and takes on the world of philosophy. Kudos to British designer Gex, these are awesome. I owe someone a kudos here for the tip, but … Continue reading
My new mantra
I’m done with open, this is my new relationship to the world 🙂 Thanks to Misha for spreading the YouTube love, I just can’t get enough of this scene from Goodfellas. That said, you may want to “just say no” … Continue reading
James Baldwin on Education
Kudos to YouTube user youwhohear for editing parts of this longer discussion with the great James Baldwin  at UC Berkeley in 1974 into a few salient remarks about the crisis of education in the U.S. in  1974. What’s remarkable to … Continue reading
The insanity of space in Kubrick’s The Shining
A few weeks ago Andy Rush shared a link to the following video essay on YouTube which features Rob Ager of Collative Learning discussing spatial awareness in Stanley Kubrick’s horor masterpiece The Shining. The video was so brilliantly done, and … Continue reading
Why hasn’t this sequel been made yet?
I watched The Blob (1958) again last night and the last 40 seconds of this film are a perfect setup for a global-warming sequel. I can’t believe no one has cashed in on this yet. I think it is time … Continue reading
James Harding on Stages and Context of 9/11
In yesterday’s episode of DTLT Today, I had the pleasure of sitting down with University of Mary Washington professor James Harding from the English Linguistics and Speech Department. Professor Harding specializes in avant-garde theater and has published far and wide … Continue reading
ds106 is back and it’s a journey to the center of the internet!!!
Michael Branson Smith has an awesome vision for what ds106 is going to be this semester. What’s more all of DTLT is playing along with his classes up at CUNY’s York College and you can too. If you are interested … Continue reading
Killer Shark Class
I am not sure if Sam O’Brien is trying to be funny or ironic (I forgot the difference) with his piece “A Professor’s opening lecture for ‘Intermediate Killer Shark Genre’” in McSweeney’s because in mind that is exactly how courses should … Continue reading
Claudia Emerson on the “poetics of preservation”
We had our first DTLT Today episode (#33!) that actually featured a UMW faculty, and we were fortunate to get none other than Claudia Emerson, who is not only an amazing poet, but also as cool as they come. She … Continue reading
“It was pure in my heart”
This post celebrating Jack Kerouac’s hotness on UMW Blogs thrust me into a rabbit hole that it has taken me several hours to crawl out from. Back when I was an undergraduate at UCLA and worked at the great Audio … Continue reading