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âReverendâ Jim âThe Bavaâ Groom, alias âSnake Pliskinâ is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed âused car salesmanâ clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washingtonâs DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with âEdupunkâ, 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: ds106
BANISHED!!!
Update: The transcript from the live chat of this session is now available here. Not sure if you have seen today’s live broadcast yet, but it turns out that the O’Blivion family has decided to try and commandeer my course, … Continue reading
What should the ds106 radio show theme be?
The poll on my blog isn’t working so take it on the d106 site here.
Dr. O’Blivion speaks through song
Thanks to Shannotate I think we now have more clues about Dr. O’Blivion’s mysterious disappearance and his whereabouts: Doc Oblivion “Speaks!” by Shannon Nicole Swanson The Dickie Goodman’s “Break-In” audio assignment is a blast, thanks Laura Blankenship! Here is another … Continue reading
7-5-11 Live Broadcast on ds106radio, audio assignments, and our radio show
Here is the link to today’s broadcast on justin.tv, I am currently waiting on access to upload today’s video to a YouTube that can handle videos longer than 15 minutes—mine can’t for obvious reasons đ So, if you want to … Continue reading
Audio Assignment #1: The Encounter
The encounter by jimgroom This is the 90 second sound effects story I made for the sound effects audio assignment for ds106. I followed Shayna Moreland’s and Ben Rimes’s lead and riffed on a Summer time theme, mine being a … Continue reading
Explore Hope
This comes from the not perfect department. I had problems making the background of my minimalist travel poster design assignment cleanly mesh with the text I covered up and the new text I added. The background is not one consistent … Continue reading
DS106: Drop Tuition Not Bombs
I’m still working on my book cover, but in the meantime I did Michael Branson Smith’s ds106 bumper sticker assignment, which is a blast. I love that it was so dead simple. All I did is take the originalbumper sticker … Continue reading
John Carpenter’s The Thing Minimalist Poster
I love the minimalist poster assignment over at ds106, and going through the process again allows me to do something with The Thing which I had promised last semester, but never delivered on. I ended up doing The Birds instead, … Continue reading
Lest they forget you, Dr. O’Blivion
Andy Rush, who rules, proved here why nobody makes art like the @rushaw. NOBODY!!! This is magic. What’s more, it ups the ante. An animated GIF-like film, which reminds me a lot of this awesome site called 2manydjs that David … Continue reading
ds106 Live Broadcast 6-30-11: Design, Online Collaboration, and an Intro to Digital Audio
Please note: if you ever want to watch the live broadcasts and you have not received the YouTube link, the broadcasts are always available immediately after the session on Justin.tv here:Â http://www.justin.tv/ds106tv/ (I will make sure the video titles are correct … Continue reading