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Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
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-James D. Calder
@jimgroom is the Billy Martin of edtech.
-Luke Waltzer
My 3yr old son is VERY intrigued by @jimgroom's avatar. "Is he a superhero?" "Well, yes, son, to many he is."
-Clint Lalonde
Jim Groom is a fiery man.
-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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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Monthly Archives: May 2006
Second Life Ecosystem
Zach just pointed me to a recent boingboing article about a game programmer who took time off to be with her child and, as a diversion, create an ecosystem in Second Life!
Good, Old Freddy …
Gardner Campbell just tipped me off on a veritable gold-mine of old postcard images of Fredericksburg, VA offered through the Central Rappahannock Library. Why might this be of interest to a native New Yorker and Yankee through and through, you … Continue reading
Second Life: So Cool it is Spooky!!!
A screenshot of me getting ready to ride through the Haunted House for the Second time in Second Life. I can’t even begin to describe how cool this place is, but I will say this much, a friend of mine … Continue reading
Cac.ophony: or, the mellifluous sounds of inter-campus collaboration
Mikhail Gershovich, the director of the Bernard L. Shwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College (CUNY), has been engaging many of the questions about technology and learning that we are dealing with here at UMW. Like us, he has been integrating … Continue reading
Doing things with Lyceum
Well, I am back in the teaching saddle and it feels good, but I do feel sorry for the students in my class who have become subject to a whole lot of technologies. And while I think they’re enjoying it, … Continue reading
Faculty Academy 2006
Coming late to the UMW Faculty Academy experience, I have heard on several occasions during this year’s event that I was spoiled. Why, you ask? I am sure there are many reasons, but one certainty is that this year’s conference … Continue reading
The Return of a Redbaiter
“Well, Lloyd, I’ve been away but now I’m back. So, you line ’em up and I’ll knock ’em back, one by one.” That’s right the best damn ITS from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine (or Portland, Oregon for that matter) is … Continue reading
Multimedia and the incoming freshmen over the next ten years …
I have been thinking a lot about the space of multimedia authoring in higher education lately, and it just seems to me that most universities I have been at are grossly under-prepared for the challenges that freshmen over the next … Continue reading
“Like Gold to airy thinness beat …”
That is how I would describe the student readings of Donne being published on Gardner Campbell’s blog. Where was this guy when I was an undergraduate in English literature? Wow! The sound quality is impeccable, but, more importantly, the interpretive … Continue reading