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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: presentations
K12 Online Conference Presentation: Disclaimer, Credits, and Resources
Welcome to the resource guide for mine and Tom Woodward’s presentation titled “The World’s Craziest Educational Videos featuring ds106” Below are a couple of quick, useful links for this presentation: The ds106.us site is here: http://ds106.us The assignment submission form: … Continue reading
#occupyopened11 Presentation
The Open Education 2011 conference has come and gone, and I would like to think my keynote got a few people thinking. I don’t believe everyone will like it, and I’m not even sure it is all that cogent—but there … Continue reading
Student as Creator
I love NYC. Let that just hang there for a moment. Being in NYC this past Wednesday and Thursday couldn;t have been better. The city was crackling with a powerful sense of disaffection in the face of egregious corporate welfare, … Continue reading
PSU #4life
I was fortunate enough to visit the great folks at Penn State University last week. And it is amazingly to me that we found time between #drunkcasts on #ds106radio to sit down with the E-Portfolio crew, the Digital Commons crew, … Continue reading
“EdTech transmissions: We Control the Vertical and the Horizontal” at Maricopa College
Back in May I was lucky enough to be invited by the good folks of the Maricopa College System (the largest community college district in the US) to talk about edtech as a change agent in higher education at their … Continue reading
Independent Domains – Thresholds to Teaching and Learning on the Open Web
A couple of weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of delivering the closing plenary session at the Elon University’s 8th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference. Katie King, Ben McFadyen, and Claudia Sparks were awesome, and special thanks to Peter … Continue reading
The Vertical and the Horizontal
I will be presenting a quick 15-20 minute session at the Council of Independent Colleges conference focusing on History and Information Fluency. I was pretty inspired by James Grossman’s talk tonight about how information can be understood in terms of … Continue reading
Presentation as Zombie Movie
Jim Groom: The end from Antonio Vantaggiato on Vimeo. Thanks to the great Antonio Vantaggiato, I finally have video for the presentation I gave in Puerto Rico on September 3rd at the Simposio Nueva Web. I blogged about it a … Continue reading
The End
I had planned on giving my presentation on EDUPUNk in Puerto Rico, but I once again decided against it, and changed my topic to deal with something I am a bit more familiar with: film, zombies, and consumer culture 🙂 … Continue reading
Scenes from The Wire
Next Wednesday I’ll be doing a presentation at the ACCS conference titled “Is Less More? What The Wire Has to Teach Us About Institutional IT” wherein I use clips from David Simon’s brilliant series The Wire to examine the lie … Continue reading