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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
Creative teaching
Gardner may be the most creative teacher I have yet to come across, and his work with social media in the classroom still stands as a model I aspire to. So having the opportunity to talk with him about creative … Continue reading
The Birds
Here is an attempt at the minimalistic movie posters assignment for ds106, the best course in the known universe: I really like how this assignment attempt came out, and the background color is significant, any Hitchcock fans out there have … Continue reading
Design as cultural intervention
Tonight in ds106 I discussed the implications of visual design as a form of cultural intervention. You can listen to the audio below. Note that the first 22 minutes is housekeeping for ds106, talking about assignments, projects, expectations, etc. From … Continue reading
Four Icon Challenge
I’ll be doing a number of the visual/design submitted assignments for ds106 in preparation for my talk with Martin Weller this coming week for our online film club bavathursdays. I’m working up to a 80s movie theme here, and I … Continue reading
The Hero’s Journey Part 5: The Tunnel
Image credit: Molly Des Jardin‘s “carter caves hole” Read part 4 here or parts 1,2, or 3 on the respective links. And she sat there, motionless looking into the well, placidly watching the seven silver soldiers as they regrouped by … Continue reading
Bringing Shenandoah online
So over the last six months I have been working with Rod Smith at Washington Lee University on bringing the literary journal Shenandoah entirely online. It is a real privilege to work on this project because Shenandoah has a very … Continue reading
Flamethrowers vs the LMS
I love Canvas’s new commercial for Instructure—love they are having with this video. What’s more, their product is now open source, I mean really open source. Now if they could only use this aesthetic on their product web page 🙂
The Daily Shoot and manic ravings about ds106
Make some art: DS106 TV Bumper from noise professor on Vimeo. And some more art… Image credit Samiamumw’s “DSC00924” This week is the start of the first hands-on creative section of the course [hahahahah!], but I think we all know … Continue reading
A little confused…
I am not sure why Leigh Blackall is photoshopping folks in unseemly garb or comparing me to an eduprenuer—I dig Leigh, and I’m down right confused. #ds106 is a vision of freedom, idea of rethinking open ed, and challenging ideas … Continue reading
La Radio ds106: Italian Lolita
Last night Antonella and I had a real blast putting together our first 15 minute play list of Italian classics, commercials, and variety show numbers on YouTube mixed in with clips of Peter Sellers as Claire Quilty from Stanley Kubrick’s … Continue reading