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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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Virtual Language Studies: A Brief Technical Overview (pt 1)
I have been working for the last nine months or so on a project that is attempting to re-think language studies using a fully online model. It is know as the Virtual Language Studies project being run out of Drake … Continue reading → Continue reading
A Tribute to the Road Dog
Yesterday was yet another special day on the mighty ds106radio, and it was in honor of the great Alan Levine who announced that he is leaving his job (apropos of Tuesday’s work theme on ds106radio 🙂 ) and hitting the … Continue reading
Unschool House Rock
Last year my wife Antonella and I decided to unschool Captain Miles. While thinking and talking about the process I think we came up with a few loose principles that might help guide our approach (though Anto probably has a … Continue reading
Working through Shenandoah –getting there?
This is my second update on the Shenandoah Literary Journal I am working on along with the editor Rod T. Smith, his English 453 course, as well as Martha Burtis—who is doing the programming and developing for the theme design. … Continue reading
ds106 Wants Your Stats
…or Stats: the forbidden love!!! Props go to Martha Burtis for putting this together, and we are trying to get a sense of what is happening out there without pretending to be exact or suggesting we can formulate some greater … Continue reading
Dear EDUPUNK,
I’m terribly sorry I had to do this through my blog, this is not easy for me at all, honestly. This post may be the last memory we ever share on this blog, but I have to come clean: I’m … Continue reading
Creative teaching
Gardner may be the most creative teacher I have yet to come across, and his work with social media in the classroom still stands as a model I aspire to. So having the opportunity to talk with him about creative … Continue reading
A little confused…
I am not sure why Leigh Blackall is photoshopping folks in unseemly garb or comparing me to an eduprenuer—I dig Leigh, and I’m down right confused. #ds106 is a vision of freedom, idea of rethinking open ed, and challenging ideas … Continue reading
bava xmas 2010
Things may get very, very quiet around the bava for a while given we are all heading out to Italy for the holidays. I can’t promise you’ll necessarily be rid of me for three weeks, but I can promise you’ll … Continue reading
ds106 as an open and online experiment
Well, I am wrapping up the second iteration of the Digital Storytelling course (ds106) I’ve been teaching this semester, and I have to say it has been a lot of fun. i think I have honed my approach to the … Continue reading