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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: #31 Alliterative Verse Remix
Back when we were starting the audio portion of ds106 Jason Green did a brilliant remix of the actual assignment that Martha Burtis came up with. What he did was take the text of the assignment here and re-interpret it … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #30 A Transgender Infographic
Charlie Rocket was not in ds106 this semester, but he was one of the course’s pioneers last Spring, and he still has the homepage and blog to prove it 🙂 This semester he took Zach Whalen’s “Writing through Media” course, … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #29 The Beneath
Aaron Clemmer (of Galagon Wagon fame) has finished the video game he created as his final project for ds106. The game is fun to play and what’s even better is how he has blogged his process of creation throughout the … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #28 CAnU dig it?
CAnU dig it?! ~ easter weekend by draggin Jason Toal (a.k.a @draggin) has been on fire with his mixes for ds106 Radio for a long while now. He has consistently been putting out amazing stuff, and his scratch, cut, and … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #27 Synchtube and MST3K
Last night Timmmmyboy led us (Dr. Garcia, Noise Professor, Jason Toal, Rown Peter, and Mikhail Gershovich) through yet another Mystery Science Theatre 3000-like show on ds106.tv. The technical setup is actually not as complicated as you might think, we find … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #26 Preach it son!
Miles preaches the good word about the baddest ass class in the land. Real life, real school! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djt0B_SGM-Q
The ds106 99: #25 Half Hour Happy Hour Special
Nash Dongwell, Cheeky Hudson, and Corporal Ace Bessman take their awesome radio show from earlier this semester (I link to the ealrier radio show below in this post) to TV for a half-hour special about their humble, shag carpet smuggling … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #24 Presentation on Social Media at UMW
Last week Will Richardson asked me to speak for about 20 minutes to a group of professors at the University of Washington, Bothell (I kept saying Bethel, I don’t know why–some kind of strange block) about the use of social … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #23 Animated GIM
No sound, but all the non-verbal cues. I love Noise Professor, his Photoshop skills are pretty epic. And the actual presentation, which I will be blogging about shortly, is not nearly as good as this animated GIF. I’m best heard … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #22 Laura Falcon
Last Spring Laura Falcon was part of the first iteration of the Digital Storytelling class I taught at UMW. That was a tough semester for many of those students—who were an amazing bunch—because I was very much imagining the course … Continue reading