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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
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
ds106 at Faculty Academy
I figured I would interrupt the regularly scheduled animated GIFs for a few posts on some of the presentations and projects I have been part of recently. And I’ll start with the quick, lunchtime presentation Martha Burtis and I gave … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #27 Synchtube and MST3K
Last night Timmmmyboy led us (Dr. Garcia, Noise Professor, Jason Toal, Rown Peter, and Mikhail Gershovich) through yet another Mystery Science Theatre 3000-like show on ds106.tv. The technical setup is actually not as complicated as you might think, we find … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #25 Half Hour Happy Hour Special
Nash Dongwell, Cheeky Hudson, and Corporal Ace Bessman take their awesome radio show from earlier this semester (I link to the ealrier radio show below in this post) to TV for a half-hour special about their humble, shag carpet smuggling … Continue reading
The ds106 99: #24 Presentation on Social Media at UMW
Last week Will Richardson asked me to speak for about 20 minutes to a group of professors at the University of Washington, Bothell (I kept saying Bethel, I don’t know why–some kind of strange block) about the use of social … 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: #5 Bryan Alexander on ds106tv
Last week it just so happened that Bryan Alexander was on UMW’s campus for the blink of an eye, and in that time we were able to lure him to the DTLT offices for a quick 20 minute ds106tv interview … Continue reading