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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: presentation
A POEJAM in Porto
Last week I spent a few days in beautiful Porto, Portugal at the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM) Conference thanks to the kind invite from Graham Atwell. Since last April we had been planning a different kind of keynote: the People’s Open … Continue reading
The Uneducation of a Technologist Interview
In April I presented at the European Distance and Elearning Network conference (EDEN), along with the likes of Maarten da Laat, Audrey Watters, and Martin Weller. You can see many of these presentations on EDEN’s YouTube account. I wrote about … Continue reading
The People’s Open Education Jam or, Say it with a GIF
This Friday I will be co-presenting with Graham Atwell at the Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’15) in Porto, Portugal. The talk is something we kind of half-baked up at EDEN15 this past April in Barcelona, and we have been playing with over … Continue reading
How Automobiles, Super Highways, and Containerization helped me understand the future of the Web
What follows is a scripted draft of the presentation I gave Friday, January 9th at the OU TechExpo at the University of Oklahoma. Also, below is the abstract I was working off, as you can probably tell the two are often very … Continue reading
Paleoconnectivism: The Long History of Edtech
One of the three presentations I was part of at Open Ed this year was “Towards a Paleoconnectivist Reader” with David Kernohan, unfortunately our third co-presenter Brian Lamb couldn’t make the conference—and we missed him dearly. I’m sure David will have a … Continue reading
A Problem of Coherence
Almost two weeks ago (is it really two weeks already?) I attended the Domain Incubator at Emory Unviersity wherein we had a focused discussion about several of the possibilities and issues surrounding Domain of One’s Own. As a quick aside, … Continue reading
Trojan Horses in the Afterglow at Sloan-C
I had a pretty intense day at the Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Conference on Thursday. (It actually took me two days to recover mentally). I presented a workshop first thing in the morning on how to “Reclaim Your Domain.” There were about 15-20 … Continue reading
Reclaim Your Workshop
On Wednesday morning I’m facilitating a workshop at the Sloan-C conference titled “Reclaiming your Domain.” Here’s the abstract: This workshop will provide attendees a focused session to get up and running with a domain name and web hosting account. By … Continue reading
How the Web was Ghettoized for Teaching and Learning in Higher Ed?
Short answer: learning management systems. The above title was something I tweeted out last night when I finsihed the presentation I delivered yesterday at the Digital Media Learning 2014 conference. Maybe title of 15 minute presentation tomorrow should be “How … Continue reading