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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: February 2009
What the internet doesn’t need…
…is another businessman, CIO, CEO, coordinator, customer service agent, designer, developer, director, e-commerce engineer, entrepreneur, instructional technologist, information architect, IT admin, programmer, project manager, quality assurance engineer, security analyst, blog, Web 2.0 app, spam filter, sign sign-on, identity management tool, encyclopedia, learning … Continue reading
Intimate Alienation
Image credit: Tom Loth‘s Barcode I was reading through UMW Blogs this morning, and I came across a post on Mara’s Blog titled “Toys and Intimate Alienation.” The title intrigued me immediately, and the post offers a quick summary of … Continue reading
Google Apps to integrate with Moodle
Just saw this via Digizen: Google Apps Education Edition is coming to an open source learning management system near you. Moodlerooms, a Moodle partner, is launching a new enhancement to the open source LMS in collaboration with search giant Google … Continue reading
An EdTech Survivalist Interlude: The End is Coming
What I’m about to say might shock you or even scare you, but understand that fear does nothing but make things worse, kinda like stress. So instead of worrying, do something to fix it. Remember there’s no problems only solutions. … Continue reading
That little patch up there in Mississippi
Subject: Just thanks Message: Hi Mr. Groom – I read your essay on *Clash of the Titans*, part of which (the iconic Medusa scene) I intend to show my college class in Greek and Roman Myth this afternoon. I wanted … Continue reading
WordCampEd: Vancouver
In less than 4 hours WordCampEd Vancouver will be kicking off. The event was spear-headed by the great D’Arcy Norman, and a whole bunch of my favorite people will be attending. here is another event I’m quite sorry not be … Continue reading
Publishing: This Time it’s Personal!
Image photoshopped by Serena Epstein. The NMC’s 2009 Horizon Report lists “The Personal Web” as one of the developing trends for educational institutions over the next 2 to 3 years. They define it as follows: Part of a trend that … Continue reading
The Clown Joke
Like I said, Cole, sometimes you get what you ask for. And man, if this doesn’t make me an internet hero, what the hell will? Special thanks to Andy “EduRush Nation” Rush for shooting the video and creating the best … Continue reading
bavabacon
This is your brain: This is your brain on the bava: I thought I knew my way around the internet. That’s right, I thought I was cool and all that. At least until the bava was baconized with Bacolicio.us thanks … Continue reading
Orson Welles was a mad tripper
Thanks to Christina’s post for professor Carole Garmon’s Approaches to Video Art course I just saw a short, experimental film by Orson Welles titled The Hearts of Age (1934). I had never even heard of this bit of Bunuel-inspired craziness … Continue reading