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@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
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-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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: ds106radio
Cleaning Up My #ds106radio Game
Spinning some tunes and testing some shortcut keys on #ds106radio to nail down my workflow, I mean its only been like 10 years doing this…https://t.co/DQNyRE6sLp Also, getting the tubes warmed up for a chock full Sunday of specials — Jim … Continue reading
DSLR Mount for Vinylcam
Have a new overhead camera setup for #vinylcasting on #ds106radio which will allow me to stream easily to #ds106radio and #ds106tv -will be testing that out for a bit. Tine in here https://t.co/2JURcwd59M or here https://t.co/GzpExUBnn6 for the vertical and … Continue reading
Azuracast: One-click Web Radio in the Reclaim Cloud
Yesterday was a win because I finally focused for long enough to work through creating a one-click installer for the open source web radio application Azuracast. I’ve had a couple of conversations with folks around web radio this week, and … Continue reading
#ds106radio: tweetbots, listeners, and playlists
Grant Potter’s new Reclaim Hosting design, soon to be a shirt 🙂The last two weeks has been dedicated to getting ds106radio moved over to Reclaim Cloud. I wrote about the migration in some detail already, so this post will be … Continue reading
Migrating ds106radio
First and foremost, Grant Potter rules! He spent almost a decade keeping ds106radio online without interruption, and in many ways we are simply trying to return the station to its former innovative harmony that Grant managed so graciously for years. … Continue reading
KaraOERke Summer Summit 2020
As an update, turns out Zoom will work better than Jitsi in this instance, and I explain why in this follow-up post here. I spent a bit of time this afternoon getting my rig setup for the KaraOERke event that … Continue reading
Utopian Tendencies Episode 5: the Utopian Rhetoric of Web 2.0
https://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/audio/utopian_tendencies_5_utopian_rhetoric_web2.mp3 Trying to catch up on the Utopian Tendencies radio show Lauren Heywood and I have been producing the last couple of months. This recording is from the June 26th, 2020 live stream on ds106radio. This was the first time … Continue reading
1995
I was playing with cross-casting between Reclaim Radio and ds106radio yesterday, it was as easy as adding a second broadcaster to my current Audio Hijack setup. I played a string of tunes from 1995. I am listing them below, and … Continue reading
Reclaim Radio
This has been a long time coming. More than a month ago we were imagining how cool it would be to have a space where we could play music like we did in the office, all the while I was … Continue reading
Utopian Tendencies, Episode 2: Slipping Effortlessly into No Place
It wasn’t a given by any means, but Lauren Heywood and I were able to pull off a second episode of Utopian Tendencies on ds106radio. It’s still early but I am enjoying listening to it take shape. The process is … Continue reading