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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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The LMS is dead, not unlike God: thoughts on the NGDLE
I am working with my favorite collaborator, Brian Lamb, on a position paper for a conference at the Open University of Catalonia this fall around the topic: “Pushing the boundaries of Higher Education: challenging traditional models with innovative and creative … Continue reading
Portraits
I’ve blogged a fair amount this year, if I hit the 165 posts mark—which I should—that would be an average of a post every 2.2 days. And that’s with a month away in between October and November. We’re nothing if not … Continue reading
Just Say No to Domain Phone Scams
I woke up to an email from a concerned Reclaim Hosting faithful that got my attention immediately: Thank you for your email! I actually have a concern regarding security issues. I received a call today from someone called John, claiming … Continue reading
Small is Beautiful: A Study of Ed-Tech as if People Mattered
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of presenting at the yearly conference for the consortium of American international liberal arts institutions, also known as AMICAL. This was far an away the most diverse conference I have ever been to. … Continue reading
Divide and Conquer Ed-Tech through Leadership
Nothing like waking up on a drizzling morning in Trento to an alert that George Siemens is offering up a thinly veiled accusation of me being a “brash, attention seeking, or self-serving individual.” Why “or”? Why not “and”? I can live … Continue reading
Three Things
Thing 1: In mid-September of last year I got a new computer in anticipation of my imminent departure from UMW. It was a 13″ Macbook Pro, and my first retina screen—I’m a fan. Two weeks later while visiting BYU I … Continue reading
Free All Sled Dogs
While editing the point-of-view video Miles took while he and his friend Ruggiero were sledding, I was thinking of a soundtrack. Given we were in Sud Tyrol I was toying with Kraftwerk’s fun fun fun on the “Autobahn.” Too slow. And then considered … Continue reading
The Schizophrenia of Outsourcing EdTech
In a recent post about agency and domains I suggested that when it comes to third party services tracking student data at universities and colleges, I’m fairly certain that most folks involved in securing those products have little to no … Continue reading
The Indie EdTech Movement
I’m just returning from a deeply energizing trip to California. I spent the bulk of my time in Los Angeles, but also spent two days at Stanford University for the dLRN conference. This post was inspired by the presentation I did with Adam Croom at dLRN. … Continue reading
Reclaiming WordPress for Lynda
Yesterday Tim blogged about the Lynda course “WordPress in the Classroom” by Chris Mattia that takes faculty through setting up a course using WordPress. Mattia created the site through an example institution on Reclaim Hosting Tim created called State U. What’s cool about that is not only does … Continue reading