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-Serena Epstein
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-James D. Calder
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-Luke Waltzer
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-Clint Lalonde
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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: vimeo
Come and Play with Us Diorama Trailers
I’ve said it already on this blog, but the “Come and Play with Us” diorama was inspired by something I saw 15 years ago in a pizza parlor in Springfield, Virginia. Namely a print out of the Grady sisters stuck … Continue reading
Building a Gaming PC with Tommy
One of the projects I have been working on with Tommaso since Christmas has been putting together the component pieces Santa brought him to build a bitchin’ gaming PC. You see, with COVID the elves were not assembling PCs given … Continue reading
bava.tv brought to you by PeerTube
I recently said something along the lines of…. The nice part about a ds106.tv, as Tim reminds me, is there are no copyright trolls. Small can be very good for a video community. Plus, I have already spent my time dealing with the … Continue reading
TommasoTV: Pong Hits
Tommy and I re-united for our second episode of TommasoTV. I’m always looking for an excuse to stream these days, and Tommy is always ready to share what he’s been developing, so we make a good pair. This episode covers … Continue reading
KaraOERoke ALT Summer Summit Post-Mortem
Back by popular demand, #karaOERoke for the #altcSummit Tune in to https://t.co/GzpExUSYeE at 8PM BST tonight to catch your favorite edtechs crooning and looning. Details for joining room are on the social program, and we hope to see you there! … Continue reading
Drolomite!
A couple of years back I had the idea of getting a drone to take along with me on some of the hikes I’ve done in the Italian Alps. Almost exactly a year ago I did an epic hike through … Continue reading
Notes from the Early Web Underground
I appreciated Jon Udell‘s tweet the other day tracking a quarter century of making websites. In fact, it oddly coincided with the final stretch of my re-watching of The Sopranos —a lockdown past time turned obsession. It’s 25 years this … Continue reading
Reclaiming Vimeo
I’m hoping to catch up on some blogging about stuff I have been doing with ds106.tv over the last month or so, but before that I wanted to quickly share an awesome tool that Chris Lott pointed me to a … Continue reading
Yars Revenge on ds106tv
Another Atari 2600 test run on ds106.tv, this time highlighting some Yars Revenge gameplay, which I learned was a creative re-working of the 1980 vector arcade game classic Star Castle. I didn’t remember how to play the game, so there … Continue reading
Atari 2600 on ds106tv: Video Pinball, Space Invaders, and Jungle Hunt
I’ve been playing around on ds106.tv for a couple of weeks now, and I wanted to be sure to archive some of those shenanigans on the bava. My earlier attempt to figure out Streamlabs OBS (before switching to OBS) featured … Continue reading