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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: April 2007
Playing with SimplePie for WordPress
I’m gonna stick to playing with SimplePie and WordPress and let Andy Rush (the new MediaWiki celebrity) and Patrick Gosetti Murray-John (the old-gold Drupal fan-boy) do their thing. I can officially announce that the SimplePie RSS parser runs fine on … Continue reading
WP-o-Matic
WP-O-Matic is a nice little third-party plugin for WordPress that uses the SimplePie php class (thanks to Patrick and Andy for the link to this amazing set of aggregation resources for both WP and MediaWiki) to grab an RSS feed … Continue reading
Nonce Journal
The Nonce Journal is the handy work of five UMW students -Alissa Bourbonnnais, Alex Cardia, Kanise Carter, Liz Gerber, and Rebecca Parson- from Claudia Emerson’s The Literary Journal class. The project for the entire class was to spend the first … Continue reading
Citizentube
[youtube]RGKF2BZLdFY[/youtube] YouTube has recently introduced citizentube. This channel kind of reminds me of Jon Udell’s post about recording local politics and making it widely available for a more nuanced look at a candidate’s stance on a wide range of issues. … Continue reading
A fish tank called Wanda
Photo courtesy of Mataparda D’Arcy Norman has been rethinking eduglu, as have a bunch of folks at UMW. I am nowhere near smart enough to retrace the steps of the conversation, which is for the moment all offline. A couple … Continue reading
Newt-jiti!
Looking for the perfect opportunity to try out Mojiti? Well, Newt Gingrich, after his inflammatory remarks about Spanish as the language of the ghetto, released a video apologia -in Spanish- on YouTube (thanks Jerry!). So, why not take this opportunity … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-05
Help! My brain is overloaded! PowerPoint bad for learning -from a University of New South Wales research report. (tags: education design instructional Learning presentation teaching school reference powerpoint) Anatomy Models – Eighteenth Century This is crazy! The Medical Venus via … Continue reading
I dwell in possibility
I dwell in Possibility– A fairer House than Prose– More numerous of Windows– Superior–for Doors– Of Chambers as the Cedars– Impregnable of Eye– And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky– Of Visitors–the fairest– For Occupation–This– The spreading … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-03
And He Blogs » Play Misty for Me Did I ever tell Andy that I love him? Seamless visual integration of WordPress and MediaWiki -this is just about the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time! (tags: WordPress mediawiki … Continue reading
links for 2007-04-02
Slashdot | World’s First Gold Farming RPG Verse Studios announced today that they have officially ‘changed everything’, with the release of their first game: Fool’s Gold. Fool’s Gold lets players take on the role of the heroic gold farmer seeking … Continue reading