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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
Getting the Bava Band Back Together
I took a quick shot at yesterdays Daily Create, which was make your own damn assignment 🙂 I noticed Terry Greene had suggested creating your own band t-shirt, and I was off. T-shirts are my business these days, so I … Continue reading
Fahrenheit 106
Today’s Daily Create, Paperback Paradise, is a fun one: Search the web for an old paperback cover and use that as starting point for a new cover. Sure you can use this one, but that makes it easy… I was … Continue reading
Thema 106
This is my entry for today’s Daily Create: You look for a representation of DS106 in the world, and you find something close, but [not] quite it. Find something like that. Heck today’s tag #tdc1607 is like that. Almost a … Continue reading
A New Development in #Sockgate
Seems like there is someone who will not be named making bootleg #ds106 socks. What’s more, 4 pair were delivered to my door this afternoon in a neatly packed bundle. And given the resulting strife from the perceived notion that … Continue reading
The Big Sockowski
I don’t know how many ways we can count the genius of Alan Levine on the web, but add this Storify to the mounting evidence. And how about recent ds106 all-star Terry Greene playing some insane Lebowski GIF tennis? I’m more than happy … Continue reading
Some Hosting Advice for Reclaim
A month or so ago Alexandra Leslie of Hosting Advice reached out to us to find out a bit about who we are (i.e. Reclaim Hosting) and how we got started. Turns out they got wind of this small, niche hosting company that predominantly serves educators … Continue reading
Take this #ds106 advice video
UMW student, Digital Knowledge Center employee, and #noir106 alumna Nora Forknail put together a pretty badass advice video for students thinking about taking the single greatest course known to humanity: ds106! I am cruising in the blog wake of Paul Bond, … Continue reading
Glitching Waterfall
The above photo is of a spot along a path right below our house on the way to Anto’s mom’s house. It’s a gorgeous path, and I have photographed it a few times since I got here. About half-way down … Continue reading
A Legion of Horribles
Taking a page from Paul Bond’s book, I used a quote from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian for this post. Here is the entire passage: A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed … Continue reading
Repo Open
Alan Levine threw out a fun #ds106 assignment asking folks to rework the OER16 ticket to ride design poster, which I personally think is a great design. Alan riffed with his own Beatle Mania take: And then I saw the venerable … Continue reading