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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: ds106tv
Vinylcast #40: New Order’s Peel Session (1981)
Another #vinylcast in the can, this one did not come easy, but it was fun. I played a bit with the green screen in OBS, multiple shots from… Continue reading
Vinylcast #39: Man or Astro-Man?’s Experiment Zero
The idea was simple enough, broadcast a record over ds106radio and ds106tv. I mean I have been around this block before, but nothing comes easy when you are… Continue reading
Vinylcast #38: Fontaines D.C.’s Dogrel
There as not one, but two vinylcasts of Fontaines D.C.’s awesome debut album Dogrel. Primarily because this was my first full blown attempt at x-casting to both #ds106radio… Continue reading
DSLR Mount for Vinylcam
Have a new overhead camera setup for #vinylcasting on #ds106radio which will allow me to stream easily to #ds106radio and #ds106tv -will be testing that out for a bit. Tine in here https://t.co/2JURcwd59M or here https://t.co/GzpExUBnn6 for the vertical and … Continue reading
Playing with the AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable
During lockdown Tim sent me a care package from the US with some goodies for my various streaming projects. Such as trying to get my Commodore 128 and/or RetroPie to stream through OBS cleanly. Lockdown was lifted in Italy in … Continue reading
Live from Jacksonville
If you are thinking about a fairly cheap “TV” studio for your edtech team (or similar group) there are some real good nuggets here. @rushaw brought his A-game https://t.co/lmxw6CDc06 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) September 2, 2020 For the 19th episode … Continue reading
TommasoTV: Pong Hits
Tommy and I re-united for our second episode of TommasoTV. I’m always looking for an excuse to stream these days, and Tommy is always ready to share what he’s been developing, so we make a good pair. This episode covers … Continue reading
KaraOERoke ALT Summer Summit Post-Mortem
Back by popular demand, #karaOERoke for the #altcSummit Tune in to https://t.co/GzpExUSYeE at 8PM BST tonight to catch your favorite edtechs crooning and looning. Details for joining room are on the social program, and we hope to see you there! … Continue reading
Excuse Me, but your Webcam is Effecting the Tracking on my VCR
Well, I’ll be spending much of this weekend and the coming week trying to keep up with the blog. I’ve found myself back in a pretty fun groove with ds106radio and ds106tv, and I think I finally dialed in my … Continue reading
KaraOERke Summer Summit 2020
As an update, turns out Zoom will work better than Jitsi in this instance, and I explain why in this follow-up post here. I spent a bit of time this afternoon getting my rig setup for the KaraOERke event that … Continue reading