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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: instructional technology
A WordPress Website with Static Front Page
Update: be sure to check out bloghelper’s tutorial on the same subject which offers more in-depth details and a few more alternatives. For many the WordPress application has become synonymous with blogging. And while I am certainly guilty of this … Continue reading
IMing with my Tech Muse, or Blue Skying Course Managment Alternatives
If there is any one person directly responsible for my current state of exile in instructional technology nirvana at UMW, it may very well be Zach Davis. A few years back, circa 2003, he was talking to me about how … Continue reading
Creating Custom Categories for WordPress using K2
One of the things we have been experimenting with here at UMW is creating custom categories for a WordPress installation that will allow us to track students and/or groups quickly and easily in the sidebar. The NIAHD Journals gave me … Continue reading
Johns Hopkins has taken the Lyceum pill -boooyaaa!!!
I had known this for a few days now, but I wasn’t certain if it was a test run or the real deal, but it seems official given the recent post to the ibiblio lyceum blog- Johns Hopkins University is … Continue reading
Introducing bavawiki …
Jerry and I have been discussing how useful a centralized wiki would be for collaboratively tracking and editing documentation for web 2.0 applications we have been using frequently over the last couple of weeks. To that end I am introducing … Continue reading
NIAHD Journals
While doing research for resources on Slave housing in the South, I serendipitously came across an interesting project at the National Institute of American History and Democracy. NIAHD is a joint venture between the College of William and Mary and … Continue reading
Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 2)
Upon completing part 1 of this serialized tutorial you should have the shell of your virtual learning space framed out. Now we want to start adding other open source tools that may be helpful. After WordPress, the next install for … Continue reading
Hacking an Open Source Virtual Learning Space (Part 1)
So you wanna make an online course site that is open, conversational, multimedia ready, and more conducive to an engaging and dynamic online learning environment? Well, you came to the right blog at the right time because as the monolithic … Continue reading
Still Blue with Bluehost
I promised an update to the “A Bit Blue with Bluehost” article I posted last week, and I am afraid there is still very little clarification as to why Drupal and Typo3 are not currently Fantastico enabled. According to the … Continue reading
Embedding a Sound File in a Flash Movie using ActionScript 2.0
Update: this project has since been kiboshed, but the meat and potatoes of the Flash tutorial is still valuable. I have talked briefly about a project I have been working on in my post “A Bit Blue with Bluehost”. And … Continue reading