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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: google maps
Locations from Goodfellas and Wiseguy Mapped
Every time I’ve watched Martin Scorsese’s Goodefellas (1991) (which is more than a few) one of the things that always strikes me is how familiar I am with the built environment of the film. I grew up on the South Shore … Continue reading
Breezy Point
I was spending some time last night exploring Google Maps to find a few true crime sites in Brooklyn and Queens (I’ll talk about this in more detail in my next post). While browsing a birdseye view of Brownsville and … Continue reading
Cr3d1t
Hey Downes and Cogdog, I invented neighborhood screencast google streetview blogging damn it! You two will never be the bava. NEVER!!! There is a new god of instructional technology, and I am he!!!!! Give credit where credit is due, I … Continue reading
MapLib
George Meadows from the Education department here at UMW just turned Martha and I on to MapLib. It’s a tool that basically allows you to add web-based images to the site and lay the Google Maps interface on top of … Continue reading
Marking Digital History at UMW
Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed … Continue reading
Collaborative Google Maps
I have been creating a Google Map for my recent trip to Tuscany (still in its infancy), and while doing so I realized that Google’s My Maps now has a collaborate feature that allows you to add other users to … Continue reading