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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: ccourses
Bought by Some Chinese Concern
As I was preparing today’s Connected Courses discussion about the intersecting ideas that link Connected Learning and the Indie Web I came across Ignatia De Waard’s post about Stephen Downes’s presentation on Personal Learning he gave at Online Educa Berlin … Continue reading
Connecting to the IndieWeb Movement
Tomorrow at 12 PM Eastern/ 9 AM Pacific I’ll be be hosting a Connected Courses discussion that will explore the IndieWeb movement as a people-centered response to the corporate web. How do core IndieWeb principles such as owning your content, remaining better … Continue reading
Connected by Design
“Connect ALL the courses!” –@drjaxon. Watch yesterday’s #ccourses webinar here: http://t.co/1baibggFEe pic.twitter.com/mmTsuB0AiJ — DML Research Hub (@dmlresearchhub) December 2, 2014 On Monday I hosted the first of two Connected Courses sessions this week that focuses on actually building a connected course. This … Continue reading
Diverse Literacies and Thinking Like the Web
I caught Friday’s Connected Courses webinar with Gardner Campbell, Howard Rheingold, and Jon Udell discussing the idea of Thinking Like the Web. This was a must-see for me because so much of the work I’ve been part of over the last five years (ds106, UMW Domains, and … Continue reading
From Radio to Television to Wire 106 or, Why I teach
I already blogged a bit about the Wire 106 listen along last week, and this week’s watch along, but I want to take a moment to reflect on these particular course activities. The shared object of attention for this course … Continue reading
Connected Courses: The Case of ds106
Back in July a number of folks met at UC Irvine to plan and design the open, online, and very connected course that officially launches next week. That’s right, you guessed it: Connected Courses. I’m proud to be part of this group, and … Continue reading
Connected Courses: It’s Time to Reclaim Your Domain
For more than a decade I’ve been circling around one pretty basic idea: the open web kicks learning management systems (LMS) asses when it comes to teaching and learning in higher ed. I’ve said it far less succinctly than that on … Continue reading
Taking Over the Means of Connected Production
The thing that excites me most about the web is the idea of taking back the means of cultural production, even if only for a moment. That’s probably why ds106 still remains the higlight of my time as an edtech. … Continue reading
Connected Courses
It’s been a long while since I posted on the bavablog, but I have a few good reasons as to why. I’ll be blogging about each of them over the next week or so (I’m back in the blog game!), … Continue reading