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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
Audio Hijack the #ds106radio
The #ds106radio love unrepentantly continues on the bava, and I took some time out early this week to finally experiment with Audio Hijack, and I’m glad I did. And before you ding me for Mac-based radio tutorial, I can gladly … Continue reading
The Limits and Possibilities of the House Metaphor for Domains
My last post was a recap of the “At the Scale of Care” presentation Lauren Heywood and I gave at the mighty OER20. A few days ago Lauren posted her own take on the presentation, and I really appreciated how … Continue reading
vinylcast #21: The Cars’s Candy-O
Day 29 of #lockdown and this album popped into mind based on an 2009 Twitter storm by Brian Lamb talking about using this vinyl to wash away the… Continue reading
vinylcast #20: AC/DC’s Powerage
https://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/1247121443915251712 NB: I had to do my #vinylcast earlier today given I had a jam-packed day of radio. The Jim & Anto show was on course and I… Continue reading
vinylcast #19: Unwound’s New Plastic Ideas
After lunch I’ll be doing a #vinylcast of another Unwound album (The Future of What) along with some band stories from April 5, 1994: the day Kurt Cobain… Continue reading
USS Missouri as experienced on #ds106radio
The #ds106radio has been on fire recently, and I am not going to lie: it gives me a lot of joy and hope in a strange moment. A lot of first timers are jumping on (tune in tonight (day? morning?) … Continue reading
vinylcast #18: The Sugarcubes’ Life’s Too Good
https://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/1246028002154201089The Jim & Anto Show: Lockdown Radio has become almost regular at this point, and we are having fun doing it. Today we discussed schooling under lockdown, re-wilding… Continue reading
vinylcast #17: Cults’ Cults
Antonella and I chatted on the radio again this morning, and we are starting to find our groove. Antonella reports on local lockdown infractions and often times the… Continue reading
vinylcast #16: Unwound’s Fake Train
After a weekend of rest, Antonella and I got another for more radio. It is a welcome break to the day, and talking through our experience has been… Continue reading
#vinylcast 15: Fugazi’s In on the Kill Taker
Skipped the 26th given I had a presentation that morning for #PressEdConf20, and it was nice to get a breath with some work. But Antonella and I were… Continue reading