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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: YouTube
Video mashups using 1970s softcore to learn about Vietnam?
“The visual is essentially pornographic…” From Fredric Jameson’s Signatures of the Visible I’ve been thinking a lot about video mashups for teaching and learning recently. It is a lot of fun using the mashup as a prism through which to … Continue reading
Happy 4th of July…
…and be careful of those fireworks of mass destruction, kids. Yet another gem from the Internet Archive.
Video “Transmission”
Using found footage on the Internet Archive to create my own music video. So feel free to “Dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio…”
How to use a dial telephone
A reposting of the viral video “The Medieval Helpdesk” (a comical look at the new technology of the book during the middle ages) has a description that frames the point of the video as follows: This video makes fun of … Continue reading
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? The Horror Movie Trailer
Just found this mashup on YouTube remixing a trailer for O Brother, Where Art Thou? as a horror movie. All too chillingly convincing…
China Tracy & Second Life at the Venice Biennale
Marjorie Och, a Web 2.0 compliant Art Historian here at UMW, recently returned from the Venice Biennale. Better yet, she returned excited about technology and baring gifts! One of the exhibits at the Biennale (the premiere international contemporary art exposition) … Continue reading
YouTube is mixing it up
All things video could get even more interesting very, very quickly! YouTube has officially released remixer, allowing users to mash it up in-house! Here is the blurb on their site: Sometimes, instant gratification video is just the thing you need. … Continue reading
Star Wars Anti-Smoking PSA from 1982
Here is a healthy counter to a previous set of posts here and here. [youtube]YTE–6zTs2E[/youtube]
I Am Legend Trailer
I have written about Richard Matheson’s amazing long story I am Legend at length on this blog before, referring to several film adaptations of this masterpiece (read it here). Well here is a trailer from the latest film adaptation starring … Continue reading
Facing the Facts of Facebook
Darren Barefoot recently blogged about Facebook as an “Ad Hoc Engine for Folding Time.” Here’s a quote from his brilliant framing of this widely popular application: Imagine the advantages of providing an online community where past, present and future members … Continue reading