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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: Reclaim Edtech
Open Media Ecosystem: Azuracast
Open Media Ecosystem blitz hosted by Reclaim Edtech kicked off last week. Amanda Schmidt and I got the series started by highlighting the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and Hows of the free and open source software Azuracast. You can … Continue reading
November’s Ghost Redux
Welcome to Running a Newsletter with Ghost! As we hit the last day of November I wanted to quickly compile the Reclaim Edtech sessions we did this month focused on getting up and running with Ghost, an open source platform … Continue reading
Reclaim.Rocks Mastodon
It was only a matter of time at the pace I’ve been going with setting up Mastodon instances that Reclaim Hosting would get its own snazzy server, and that day was Wednesday. I streamed the setup so that I would … Continue reading
Hacks for Hybrid Working Flexing on Reclaim Edtech
I just posted about the Ghost Flex Course currently running at Reclaim Edtech this month, and it occurred to me that is just one of two! Lauren Hanks and Maren Deepwell are deep into week three of their four-week session … Continue reading
Haunting the Ghost Flex Course
This week saw the release of the second installment of the Ghost Flex Course we’re running at Reclaim Edtech. This session featured Pilot Irwin taking us through their process of putting together Reclaim Hosting’s monthly newsletter Reclaim Roundup. There is … Continue reading
November’s Ghost
This month at Reclaim Edtech Pilot, Taylor and I will be running a flex course focused on getting up and running with the open source publishing tool Ghost. It will take place every Wednesday over the next three weeks at … Continue reading
Ambient Participation, Reclaim Radio, and Breaking on Through #4life
It’s been more than a decade since Grant Potter introduced me to the wonderful world of self-hosted web radio, yet another lasting legacy of that heady ds106 trip. During the pandemic the radio presented an occasion to return to micro-communities. … Continue reading
WordPress Multisite Migrations and the Meaning of Web Life
This post is heavily influenced by the goings-on at Reclaim Edtech this October, namely a month-long dive into all things WordPress Multisite for admins with Tom Woodward. It’s similar to the Domain of One’s Own workshop we have run for … Continue reading
Understanding Containers through Nextcloud
We are into week 3 of our Reclaim Edtech flex course “Understanding Containers,” and I have to say Taylor Jadin is doing a bang-up job taking folks through the basics. Yesterday was the premiere of week 3’s video that covers … Continue reading
Installing Manifold on Reclaim Cloud
Have I mentioned it’s container month at Reclaim Edtech recently? Well, it is and that means I’m playing with installing apps, or even re-visiting apps we’ve already gotten running, which is the case here. Tim Owens already documented the process … Continue reading