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-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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 Special Request from Dr. Oblivion
Email sent to all registered ds106 participants 3:11 PM June 20th, 2010. ________________________________________________________ All, I just spoke with Dr. Oblivion, and given the daily Live TV (who does live TV anymore?) is going to be his primary means of communicating, … Continue reading
6/20/11: ds106 Introduction Video and Assignments
As some of you may have already witnessed, Dr. Oblivion offered the introduction to ds106 via a live video (http://ds106.tv/live). If you didn’t get a chance to watch it yet, it is now available on YouTube or at the main … Continue reading
Summer of Oblivion Introduction
This is the email that is getting the Summer of Oblivion underway, it was sent out at 1:50 Am (EDT) on Monday, June 20th. _______________ All, Please read this email in its entirety. Welcome to the Summer of Oblivion, my … Continue reading
Extremely Painful
Something to Tide You Over
I’m not positive but I think this is my first two-shot GIF. What’s more, I actually re-edited the shot and put the first scene, Ted Danson looking at the television after the shot of the TV. Small point, I know, … Continue reading
Lunkhead
Where’s my cake, Bediliah!
Happy Father’s Day!
MPEG Streamclip just got a whole lot better
I have always been partial to MPEG Streamclip because it is a simple editor, convertor, and viewer all in one. It has its issues, and it can be buggy, but I have been using it for well over 5 years … Continue reading
ds106radio is neither radical nor safe, it’s an experiment
A week or two ago Alec Couros tweeted a few questions about the appeal of ds106radio and its seemingly deviant relationship to copyright and/or licensing. You can see his tweets below: @jimgroom & #ds106‘ers – just watched ur @cogdog amazing … Continue reading
Callaloo, Krazy Kat, and ds106 for everyone!
Erica, also know as Palaver, was part of Martha Burtis’s first Summer session ds106 course, and she came in a bit nervous. She wasn’t entirely comfortable with technology, and she had her doubts about completing the class—as everyone in their … Continue reading