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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
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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: ds106
Thanks ds106
having the open, online students contributing to #ds106 is really what makes the experience that much greater. And this semester we have a bunch of awesome folks who are more than up to the challenge. I mean look at the … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 4: “Dr. Oblivion is missing!”
In a strange twist, T.A. Jim Groom is left stranded by Dr. Oblivion and left to do all the work of ds106 in his absence. The doctor’s daughter, Bianca O’Blivion gives us all the details. Meanwhile a discussion on visual … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 3: Personal Cyberinfrastructure and Knowedge-able
You can find Dr. Oblivion’s Discussion Notes (with all relevant links) here. Also, here is a copy of the Livechat Transcript from today’s live broadcast. Additionally , Dr. Oblivion asked me to thank Abbie Boaduwa Yirrah for calling into the … Continue reading
Dr. Oblivion Day 2
Dr. Oblivion responds to a few blog posts and comments in the live chat and Twitter feed and takes the time to talk about WordPress and getting started with themes and plugins. See the assignment for experimenting with plugins and … Continue reading
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
A Special Request from Dr. Oblivion
Email sent to all registered ds106 participants 3:11 PM June 20th, 2010. ________________________________________________________ All, I just spoke with Dr. Oblivion, and given the daily Live TV (who does live TV anymore?) is going to be his primary means of communicating, … Continue reading
6/20/11: ds106 Introduction Video and Assignments
As some of you may have already witnessed, Dr. Oblivion offered the introduction to ds106 via a live video (http://ds106.tv/live). If you didn’t get a chance to watch it yet, it is now available on YouTube or at the main … Continue reading
Summer of Oblivion Introduction
This is the email that is getting the Summer of Oblivion underway, it was sent out at 1:50 Am (EDT) on Monday, June 20th. _______________ All, Please read this email in its entirety. Welcome to the Summer of Oblivion, my … 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