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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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Category Archives: digital storytelling
A bava face trace
A bava face trace, a photo by snakepliskens on Flickr. This Daily Create is my first of many assignments for ds106 this Summer—I’m a camper through and through and it’s never too late to join in on the fun, get started … Continue reading
Open Lab/Open Hearts: the Video
I’m becoming a really comfortable presenter, some might even suggest too comfortable—which I would agree. But this video of my 20 minute presentation at the opening of CUNY’s Open Lab site (I blogged it here) actually has one of my … Continue reading
Alien GIFs
The following GIFs are all way too big, but I don’t care. I’ve watched Alien a few times this week, and I can’t get enough of it. I want to do a GIF series about computers from films during the … Continue reading
ds106 Summer Session: Camp Magic MacGuffin
As Alan Levine has already blogged, ds106 is running again this Summer and it should be a blast. It’s a 10 week session being co-taught by Martha Burtis and Alan, and it promises to be insane. There’s a Summer Camp … Continue reading
The Educational aPOPcalypse in 25 Animated GIFs
It”s been a busy week closing up this semester’s ds106 course, but I figured I should blog about my TEDxNYED presenting experience before it fades into memory for good. I was trying to experiment wildly with this one because I … Continue reading
Sarah Kountz is a ds106 Kung-Fu Master
Sarah Kountz may be the most consistently creative student I’ve yet to see in #ds106. The class has been over for her for more than a year, but she keeps on going with regular assignments of awesome. Take a look … Continue reading
Endings and Possibilities: Life after ds106?
Tonight marks the last time I teach ds106 officially at UMW for a while. I’ve taught it six times in two and half years, and it’s become more awesome than my wildest dreams. At the same time, it’s time to … Continue reading
Dawn of the Dead and Road Warrior Animated GIFs
I’ve been working on a presentation for TEDxNYED that is all animated GIFs—25 in all. I’ll be publishing an annotated version of the presentation here sometime time for feedback, but before I did I wanted to get the GIFs I … Continue reading
This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction and Archiving
This Week in ds106: Mashups, Remixes, Fan Fiction, and Archiving from umwnewmedia on Vimeo. I spent the penultimate class session of this semester’s ds106 talking about remix culture before YouTube, a la Jonathan McIntosh’s article I discovered today. During class … Continue reading
From the 80s Remix Archive: Reagans Promote Crack Cocaine
That classic was done by Cliff Roth in 1988, almost twenty years before YouTube, with nothing but a couple of VHS decks—kinda like walking uphill to school in the snow both ways. And this tweet from WFMU links to this … Continue reading