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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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Tag Archives: 99ds106
The Purpose of Animted GIFs discovered
Stellameme has figured out the real purpose of animated GIFs, use them to interpret a reading or video you watched for #ds106. These are brilliant response to Gardner Campbell‘s “No More Digital Facelifts” presentation. Brava, this is genius—and builds geniusly … Continue reading
Extremely Painful
Something to Tide You Over
I’m not positive but I think this is my first two-shot GIF. What’s more, I actually re-edited the shot and put the first scene, Ted Danson looking at the television after the shot of the TV. Small point, I know, … Continue reading
Lunkhead
Where’s my cake, Bediliah!
Happy Father’s Day!
Callaloo, Krazy Kat, and ds106 for everyone!
Erica, also know as Palaver, was part of Martha Burtis’s first Summer session ds106 course, and she came in a bit nervous. She wasn’t entirely comfortable with technology, and she had her doubts about completing the class—as everyone in their … Continue reading
The ds106 Summer of Oblivion gentle cow prod email
As of now less than half of you [the registered UMW students] have signed-up for an account on the ds106 site as I made clear in the first email I sent. What’s more, even fewer of you have started to … Continue reading
ds106: A Pre-Course List of things to do
This email was sent out on June 9th as a follow-up to the original email I sent to all registered UMW students introducing the class. In the email below I break down some of the things I am expecting all … Continue reading
The ds106 Summer of Oblivion scare ’em straight email
The following email went out on May 31st, 2011 in preparation for the ds106 Summer of oblivion online course through UMW. It is directed primarily at the 27 UMW students registered for the course, but may be useful for anyone … Continue reading