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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
DS107 CARNAGE
DS107 CARNAGE from Jim Groom on Vimeo. A trailer for a film not yet made…. Take the jump for an overview of the process, thoughts on why iMovie 8 sucks, and a bit about Mario Bava.
Not a ds106 post
Click Image for bigger version Old news I know, but I just discovered it. I really enjoy how unabashedly the Mail Online article frames this Great White as a monster. That’s the old anti-shark spirit we are at risk of … Continue reading
ds106 on EDUCAUSE Now
Audio from an interview with Gerry Bayne of EDUCAUSE Now about ds106 A couple of days ago I had a discussion with Gerry Bayne of EDUCAUSE Now fame about ds106, the digital storytelling course Martha Burtis and I have been … Continue reading
ds106 live broadcast 7-14-11: Andy Rush on Video
In today’s live broadcast Andy Rush provides in-depth look at the tools of the trade for video. With an examination of codecs, compression, video editors, DVD ripping tools, and other strange transformative tools. If you are in need of an overview of … Continue reading
Oblivion Camp Radio Show (Part 1)
Oblivion Camp Radio Show (Part 1) by jimgroom This is the first part of the Oblivion Camp Radio Show slasher serial, it is the first in a three part serial. Part two will start to wrench up the blood boys … Continue reading
Forbidden O’Blivion
There is some serious madness happening in ds106’s Summer of O’Blivion, and Michael Branson Smith’s video editing has been amazing as the above Forbidden Planet remix video bears witness to. Just in time for the video section of this course, … Continue reading
Oblvion Camp: A Course To Dismember!
This ds106 radio show may very well be your last! The 1:00 minute bumper promoting the ds106radio show that will decisively end the #ds107 insurrection, once and for all!! Ds106-oblivion-camp-bumper by jimgroom The :30 second bumper that will put an … Continue reading
Is this darkness in you, too?
Transmissions from the front lines This great evil – where’s it come from? How’d it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who’s doing this? Who’s killing us, robbing us of life and light? Mocking … Continue reading
Little pigs, little pigs….
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s Jimmy!
ds106 Live Broadcast 7-6-11 The Oblivion Family, the ds106radio show, and insurrection
All, This is not Jim Groom, it is his wife Antonella Dalla Torre, and I am simply passing this email along that I found open on my husband’s computer. He seems to be under a lot of stress and is … Continue reading