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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: blogging
bavarchive: creating learning resources on Flickr
Some of my most treasured “possessions” are the film programs I have collected from innumerable film outings over the years. I have a modest collection of stuff spread across several boxes in my attic, and I do love to steal … Continue reading
MediaWiki/WordPress User Integration: One step closer to a bling bling bliki!
Update: I tested this extension with WPMU to no avail. Looks like it works only with single WP installs 2.1 or higher with MediaWiki installs that are PHP 4 based (I got it to work with version 1.6.8). Alan Levine … Continue reading
Deanimator Re-visited, or the Post that just keeps on giving!
A while back I posted a link to an online flash game called the De-Animator. A fun, simple game wherein you kill zombies. Pretty straightforward, and a lot of kicks for a Night of the Living Dead fan like me … Continue reading
Knowledge, Categories, Tags, and Crime
Well, I have been furiously putting together my syllabus for the class on Early American Crime Narratives I’ll be teaching this first Summer session, which starts tomorrow! The class will be tracing a series of narratives from the colonial period … Continue reading
Slow blogging: “An archive of learning that intersects with others learning”
Barbara Ganley poses the following question at the beginning of her talk: What is the correlation between your own personal use of Web technologies and the way you use them in the classroom? Well, what is it for me? The … Continue reading
“It’s a movement…”
As we gear up for Faculty Academy 2007, I’d like to throw something out there. Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, recently blogged about how his labor of love with WordPress over the last four years might be re-purposed by … Continue reading
A Bliki -what’s a Bliki?
Exploring a few WPMU plugins
I recently got inspired, so I returned to the ELS blogs site to see what was going on in the world of WordPress Multi-User plugins (as well as to test Simple Pie on WPMU -which works beautifully!). I’m glad I … Continue reading
Playing with SimplePie for WordPress
I’m gonna stick to playing with SimplePie and WordPress and let Andy Rush (the new MediaWiki celebrity) and Patrick Gosetti Murray-John (the old-gold Drupal fan-boy) do their thing. I can officially announce that the SimplePie RSS parser runs fine on … Continue reading
I dwell in possibility
I dwell in Possibility– A fairer House than Prose– More numerous of Windows– Superior–for Doors– Of Chambers as the Cedars– Impregnable of Eye– And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky– Of Visitors–the fairest– For Occupation–This– The spreading … Continue reading