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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
The ds106 99: #40 A Kubrickian Mashup
Rob Tyszka was an ds106 Â internaut from Martha Burtis’s section and I happened to catch his final project in the ds106 blog stream and I was blown away by how good it is. He did a mashup/collage of scenes from … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #39 ds106 radio by the numbers
Thanks to the great Aaron Clemmer and his ds106 radio Twitterbot we now have a very rough sense of how much time we have been live versus AutoDJ. Like I said, it is far from exact, but it gives us … Continue reading
A lesson to be learned
There is something in this insane video that we all might be able to learn from: Spider attack from Ahmet Ozkan on Vimeo. Via Superpunch
The ds106 99: #38 Dr. Oblivion
As this semester’s iteration of ds106 ends—-yesterday marked my final meetings with all the UMW students—I’m pretty much done with grading and ready to reflect more intensely on the whole process. What struck after the final exam is how much … Continue reading
1983 was a great year for film on 42nd Street
Image credit: 1970s Times Square New York City…by Christian Montone The Temple of Schlock blog has a great archive feature they do regularly, they simply find out what was playing at various theaters on NYC’s 42nd Street back-in-the-day. And here … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #37 Overheard in ds106
Image credit: “Groomed4Life- Poster2” by Sarah Kountz, Kelsey Conway, Brandon Robenson, and David Noel When you miss my ds106 class, you miss a lot. And just remember—context is everything! That one! Go sit on that one! Do it daily! That … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #36 The ds106 final exam
This final assignment comes care of Martha Burtis, and we are here in Combs 139 at UMW as they take this exam they have two and a half hours to finish any of the following options listed below). And in … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #34 David Attenborough narrates Dawn of The Dead
I really enjoyed this mashup which has David Attenborough’s narration of two groups of chimps at war from the Planet Earth documentary laid over Dawn of the Dead (1978). A brilliant idea, and I am pretty certain the student, Jenna … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #33 A ds106 original music premiere
Ivan Martinez has been steadily blogging about the fascinating world of the YouTube music communities that have emerged over the last years. He is obviously both a devout fan and follower of this community, and what is fascinating is that … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #32 #4life
Just in case there were any questions here is my #ds106 birth certificate, I am in #4life people! Special thanks to The Followers of the Apocalypse (ds106radio’s raddest DJ) for fedexing it to me 🙂