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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: reclaimopen
Reclaim Open Learning: ds106 is winning!
I’m happy to report that ds106 has been selected as one of five winners of the Reclaim Open Learning Innovation Contest sponsored by the Digital Media and Learning Hub at UC Irvine and the MIT Media Lab. Alan Levine, Martha Burtis, … Continue reading
Building with Howard: Creating a Learning Environment with Open Source Tools Pt 1
Yesterday I had the distinct pleasure to sit down with Howard Rheingold—at least virtually—and go through the process of setting up a course hub using WordPress. The above video is the first part of a series in which we will … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting has a new branding logo
Thanks to Michael Branson Smith, my partner Tim Owens and I are really sharpening our brand appeal over at Reclaim Hosting. I think this venture is gonna work! That said, we still need your money (it’s just a short-term loan!) to fund this … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting needs your money!
Ok, here’s the situation, my parents went away on a week’s vacation Reclaim Hosting is pretty much rocking and rolling. We have an insane amount of interest, conservative estimates put us at about 3000 faculty and students already. What’s more, … Continue reading
Reclaim Open, as in Open Experience
Along with Martha Burtis and Alan Levine as co-conspirators, I just submitted ds106 as a contestant in the Reclaim Open Learning Innovation contest. I think there’s a lot that is compelling about ds106, particularly if the folks at the Digital … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting: Battling Digital Somnabulism One Domain at a Time
A week after launching Reclaim Hosting it seems like the project has hit a broader, international nerve. By a conservative count Tim Owens and I did this morning , it looks like we’re going to need a bigger boat based on … Continue reading
Reclaim Open Learning
Reclaim Open Learning – Not Anti-MOOC. But pro open. from Jöran und Konsorten on Vimeo. This past weekend I had the real privilege of going to MIT’s Media Lab to join a group of diverse international thinkers for a hackathon … Continue reading