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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: ds106radio
The ds106 99: #19 Bava Late Night Radio
I finally got back into ds106radio after a bit of time off from live shows so that I could finish up a bunch of work that was due. Feeling a bit relieved, and being goaded by Dr. Garcia, I jumped … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #18 ds106radio T-shirt
Taking a page out of Todd Conaway’s book I got my ds106radio t-shirts a couple of weeks ago and I ma finally sporting it around campus. Special thanks to Andrew Allingham for the design, and I hope to get more … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #16 The Bitch Session
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog One more from the Nicecast Archive before I move on to another topic. I don’t think I actually posted the audio to the ds106 radio bitch session Martha Burtis, Alan … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #15 Suburbia
This is the last episode (thus far) of the Radio Free Ferris soundtrack shows on ds106radio (you can find episodes 1 and 2 here and here). My memory of this one was tainted by the fact that I thought it … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #14 Some Kind of Wonderful
I figured while it was fresh in my mind from my last post on the Valley Girl soundtrack show for ds106radio that I would upload my earlier soundtrack show—February 19th to be exact—on one of my favorite films of the 80s: … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #13 Valley Girl
Taking a page from Guilia Forsythe’s blog, I figured I’d use the ds106 99 to start archiving a number of radio shows I did over the last couple of months. I literally have gigs and gigs of broadcasts in my … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #11 Managing Media in AutoDJ
This weekend I did something I should have figured out long ago, I actually took the time to understand how you update the Media Folder and how to both create and add various mp3 files to a specific playlist in … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #9 A new ds106radio show?
While looking for ripped vinyl to upload to ds106radio this weekend as Jason Toal and Grant Potter broadcasted there awesome adventures around Vancouver on Record Store Day 2011 I was trying to refresh ds106radio’s AutoDJ with some vinyl rips. I’m … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #3 Innovation in elearning interview
Sharon Gardner, a student at the Open University in the UK, is currently undertaking a Masters in Online and Distance Education. She has been tasked with interviewing an innovator in education as part of the H807 Innovations in elearning module. … Continue reading
A Tribute to the Road Dog
Yesterday was yet another special day on the mighty ds106radio, and it was in honor of the great Alan Levine who announced that he is leaving his job (apropos of Tuesday’s work theme on ds106radio 🙂 ) and hitting the … Continue reading