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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
Doing things with Lyceum
Well, I am back in the teaching saddle and it feels good, but I do feel sorry for the students in my class who have become subject to a whole lot of technologies. And while I think they’re enjoying it, … Continue reading
Faculty Academy 2006
Coming late to the UMW Faculty Academy experience, I have heard on several occasions during this year’s event that I was spoiled. Why, you ask? I am sure there are many reasons, but one certainty is that this year’s conference … Continue reading
The Return of a Redbaiter
“Well, Lloyd, I’ve been away but now I’m back. So, you line ’em up and I’ll knock ’em back, one by one.” That’s right the best damn ITS from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine (or Portland, Oregon for that matter) is … Continue reading
Multimedia and the incoming freshmen over the next ten years …
I have been thinking a lot about the space of multimedia authoring in higher education lately, and it just seems to me that most universities I have been at are grossly under-prepared for the challenges that freshmen over the next … Continue reading
“Like Gold to airy thinness beat …”
That is how I would describe the student readings of Donne being published on Gardner Campbell’s blog. Where was this guy when I was an undergraduate in English literature? Wow! The sound quality is impeccable, but, more importantly, the interpretive … Continue reading
UMW at ACCS: A Motley Crue (insert umlaut …twice)
As a proud member of DTLT I think it is safe to say that we had a relatively successful run of our “Bluehost: A Fantastico Expedition” presentation at the ACCS conference today. It was really a pleasure to talk about … Continue reading
Did somebody say Slide Show Pro has a Coppermine Plugin?!
I have been taking a little slack here at DTLT (which, by the way, will be hosting none other than Jon Udell at this year’s Faculty Academy on May 17th – wow!!) for pointing out the delicate subtleties of a … Continue reading
Felix the Cat – a socialist?
Who knew Felix the cat was such a pinko? Here he is doling out money to the poor of the depression-era (a majority of whom would make up the the audience in a theatre for this short) with his gold … Continue reading
Vintage Tooncast
It is truly amazing what gets unveiled when the copyright laws lapse, the public domain kicks in, and an unbelievable online digital resource like archive.org broadens its library and allows us to access the past in new and exciting ways, … Continue reading
Now that’s a fire
Basecamp has done it again recently with their free IM messaging service. Here is how they describe it: Campfire lets you set up password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds. Invite a client, colleague, or vendor to chat, collaborate, and … Continue reading