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Generations from now, they won't call it the Internet anymore. They'll just say, "I logged on to the Jim Groom this morning.
-Joe McMahon
Everything Jim Groom touches is gold. He's like King Midas, but with the Internet.
-Serena Epstein
My understanding is that an essential requirement of the internet is to do whatever Jim Groom asks of you while you're online.
-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: November 2006
The Viral Learning Center
Sign up today! [youtube]QsHPJ0eJilU[/youtube] Disclaimer: this is not to be confused with Virtual Learning Spaces! 🙂 This link comes from the inimitable Andy Rush, who has posted a whole series of additional links to cool videos that play upon this … Continue reading
BlackBoard: A Conversation Killer
As a great post by Bryan Alexander recently pointed out -how can you trace links to your site from others within BlackBoard so that the conversation can continue? Answer: You can’t, silly rabbit! After reading Bryan’s post, I tried a … Continue reading
On the Nature of Power
If you haven’t yet, but I know you have, read Brian Lamb’s fantastic treatise on the nature of power RIGHT NOW! This may very well be the funniest thing that I have read in a long time. Link.
Hey kids, smoke ’em if you got ’em
A cheap shot, I know, but I just couldn’t resist, candy cigarettes are still on the shelves! Well, I bet there’s not “a cough in a carload!” This is even more striking to me after being in Canada for six … Continue reading
Colonizing MySpace
During the New Web seminar at the University of Victoria, Jim Spadacinni talked a bit about the potential for museums to colonize popular social sites for both exposure and networking. Logic being, regardless of how much one may hate how … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Conference Posters: do they get any better than this?
I loved this image so much I had to blog about it. The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Center at Baruch College is kicking it old new school. Click on the link for more details about the conference. Link.
Stumble Upon
A very fun application I have found myself using often over the last couple of days is Stumble Upon. The premise is pretty simple, join up for free, click a few categories you are interested in, and download a toolbar … Continue reading
The Powerhouse Museum: the Name Says it All
The New Web seminar at UVIC hosted another fascinating discussion today about integrating web 2.0 tools into the museum landscape with Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum (see this post for the highlights of our discussion with Kevin von Appen … Continue reading
The Ontario Science Center’s “RedShift Now”
I have so much to blog about these days that I am a bit overwhelmed. After my mini-vacation in Portland, Oregon I headed up to the land of Northern Voices to attend a seminar dealing with “The New Web: Interactive … Continue reading
Portland to Ground Kontrol -we have the 80s!
I have been in Portland, Oregon for three full days now, and I have to say the city is pretty happening, if not a little hip for an aging hipster like myself. My own struggle with identity aside, hip has … Continue reading